Son, brother, soldier, friend.
Well done. Be thou at peace.
West Point Class of 2005
Killed in Action
January 20th, 2007
Karbala, Iraq
2nd Battalion
377th Parachute Field Artillery Regiment
4th Brigade Combat Team
25th . . . — — Map (db m176220) WM
(Peach Bowl):
WVU 13 NC State 10
WVU rallies to win its second Peach Bowl championship.
(Bowden):
College Football Hall of Fame - 2006
WVU Head Football Coach - 1970-75 — — Map (db m313600) HM
This National Guard unit traces it origins to Capt. Morgan Morgan, who formed the company Feb. 17, 1735. It served with Washington's militia in Braddock's 1755 campaign. At the outset of the Revolution he called upon these fighting men to "drive the . . . — — Map (db m73352) WM
Perched above Provincetown Harbor at 351 Commercial Street, Blanche Lazzell's studio became both a creative haven and a gathering place for artists. She moved into the converted fish house in 1918 and kept it as her base for nearly four decades. . . . — — Map (db m312382) HM
Morgan District High School was the original home of this School Bell. In 1939, upon the completion of a W. P. A. Addition, the building was renamed Sabraton Junior High. When the school closed in 1980, the students were moved to the new South . . . — — Map (db m176832) HM
(Zereoue):
Big East & ECAC Rookie of the Year - 1996
ECAC Player of the Year - 1997
(Liberty Bowl):
West Vriginia - 24 Army - 21
Came back from 21-10 second half deficit to win — — Map (db m310558) HM
Coal cars like this one were used from the mid 1800's until the mid 1900's to haul coal out of hand-worked underground coal mines. The cars were first pulled by mine ponies prior to the introduction of diesel or electric engines. These cars were . . . — — Map (db m260890) HM
Glass making in West Virginia began with the
abundance of sandstone, limestone and coal. While there
were at least 14 other glass makers in Morgantown, much
of my research was done in Star City. Star City was
founded in 1907 and named by . . . — — Map (db m175933) HM
Bell
of the
Armored Cruiser
U.S.S. West Virginia
Commissioned: 23 Feb 1905
Decommissioned: 1 Sept 1920
Dedicated to the memory
of those West Virginians
who gave their lives in
the service of their country
by
Alpha Phi Omega . . . — — Map (db m134302) WM
Manufactured in the late 19th century, gas engines were used to drill oil and gas wells, and to pump oil wells prior to the use of electric motors. This 20 horsepower engine was used to pump a well in Wirt County, WV from 1942 until the summer of . . . — — Map (db m261183) HM
Allen Holland constructed what is now known as The Big Log Cabin in 1815-16 near White Day Creek. His farm was located along US Route 73, known then as the Morgantown and Fairmont Pike. In 1871 Holland sold his farm to his daughter Mary's husband . . . — — Map (db m196916) HM
(Orders):
First Team All-American - 1953
(Wyant):
Southern Conference Player of the Year - 1954
30-4 record as starting quarterback — — Map (db m307841) HM
Brooks Hall, named in honor of Chandler, Fred, Amos, and Alonzo Brooks, originally opened in 1951. Brooks Hall was home to the University's biology department until its relocation into the Life Sciences Building in the fall of 2002. Fall 2007, . . . — — Map (db m134280) HM
When Men and Horses Built the Bowl
In 1911, this hillside looked very different. Trees and thick brush covered the 28 acres where the reservoir would go. Men swung axes and saws to cut them down while teams of horses and oxen hauled the . . . — — Map (db m312899) HM
Camp Muffly was founded by Harry P. Muffly in 1929. Mr. Muffly served as the county agent in Monongalia County for 31 years. In 1958 the County 4-H Camp was named for Mr. Muffly for all the work he had done over the years. The original eight log . . . — — Map (db m195973) HM
(Curtis):
Consensus All-American - 1996
Big East Defensive Player of the Year - 1996
(Marshall):
2004 Big East Offensive Player of the Year
2004 ECAC Player of the Year — — Map (db m313062) HM
William Raber built this house in 1810 near Maidsville in Cass District, Monongalia County. After receiving the land from his father Christopher Raber in 1809, William willed the house and farm to his youngest son Samuel in 1849. Samuel Raber and . . . — — Map (db m196523) HM
In 1912, the Cheat Haven and Bruceton Railroad was constructed along the Cheat River as a short connector line between the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Cheat Haven, Pennsylvania and the Kendall Lumber Company operations near Ice's Ferry, West . . . — — Map (db m178381) HM
This gnarled old tree, over five feet in diameter, is believed to be the third or fourth largest chinquapin oak in the world. The tree lost its top long ago, probably before 1900. The tree is hollow but still alive. The best estimates of its age . . . — — Map (db m177494) HM
Built in 1893, this building was named for Oliver Perry Chitwood, West Virginia University Professor of History from 1907 to 1946. During that period, his textbook on American colonial history was used throughout the country. The building originally . . . — — Map (db m134295) HM
(Spears):
College Football Hall of Fame - 1955
WVU Head Football Coach (1921-24)
(Slaton):
Consensus All-American - 2006
Sugar Bowl MVP - 2006 — — Map (db m313566) HM
Why the Water Needed Testing
As Morgantown grew, the city relied more on the Monongahela River for water. But this water was not always clean. In the 1920s, WVU researchers found problems with river water coming from upstream pollution. . . . — — Map (db m312339) HM
Reliance on the Monongahela River to supply enough water to a growing Morgantown meant the overall year-round quality remained a subject of great concern. West Virginia University researchers in the 1920s identified the problems with the river . . . — — Map (db m174748) HM
Residents Welcome Tibbs Run Water
Tibbs Run did not supply water to the reservoir here until 1912. It did, however, serve as a public water source earlier. In 1889, the new Union Improvement Company (UIC) purchased 210 acres of land south . . . — — Map (db m173661) HM
Residents Welcome Tibbs Run Water
Tibbs Run didn't begin filling Morgantown's reservoir until 1912, but people used its water earlier. In 1889, the Union Improvement Company (UIC) bought land in the Tibbs Run watershed, known for its . . . — — Map (db m312487) HM
Clinton Cabin is the only log cabin at Camp Muffly that is not an original settlers cabin. Constructed of logs cut from chestnut trees along Booth's Creek in Clinton District, Monongalia County, Clinton Cabin was built on this site in 1934. Wayne . . . — — Map (db m196393) HM
The Core Arboretum was part of the Krepps Farm until 1948, when West Virginia University purchased land for the Evansdale campus. The WVU Department of Biology manages the 91 acre arboretum as a place for research, study, exercise and quiet . . . — — Map (db m153674) HM
A typical dictionary definition states that an arboretum is "a place where trees and other plants are grown for purposes of science, education, and display." Most of the Core Arboretum is natural woodland.
West Virginia University acquired the . . . — — Map (db m172813) HM
Named for the Monongalia River, Monongalia County was established in 1776. With the formal recognition of the Mason-Dixon line in 1783, it was determined that the first meeting place of the county court actually fell within the borders of . . . — — Map (db m153672) HM
(Farley):
First Team All-American - 1970
Played 3 Seasons in the NFL
(Gator Bowl):
WVU 38 Georgia Tech 35
Trailing 35-17 in the third quarter, WVU rallies for its first Gator Bowi win. — — Map (db m309235) HM
Finding the Right Spot
When nearby land could no longer supply enough water, people searched for a better spot. The land here made a perfect "bowl" to hold water from Tibbs Run. The upper watershed was still wild forest, which helped . . . — — Map (db m312743) HM
This unusual tree is a dawn-redwood, Metascquoia glyptostroboides. Like larches and baldcypresses, dawn-redwoods are cone-bearing trees that shed their leaves in the fall.
Metasequoia was once thought to be an extinct genus of trees . . . — — Map (db m173234) HM
1.5 miles south; erected in 1889 by order of Monongalia County Court. Contract awarded to W. A. Loar with Edward W. Brand as superintendent. Stone abutments built by Loar at cost of $198, with wood framework constructed by Wm. and Joseph Mercer at a . . . — — Map (db m171425) HM
A simple kitchen was the first building to be built on the Camp grounds in 1929 when the first camp was held. The Dining Hall, including the existing chimney, was built in 1931. A flagstone approach was added in 1938. Due to changing Health . . . — — Map (db m197168) HM
Don Knotts, a Morgantown native, began his career performing as a ventriloquist here at the historic Metropolitan Theatre.
After graduating from Morgantown High School in 1942 and West Virginia University in 1948, his impressive comedic and . . . — — Map (db m194605) HM
The Buffalo and Mahoning sandstones, the "Dunkard Sands" of the driller, are exposed in the road cuts and merge to form a great cliff at Raven Rock. They produce oil and natural gas in northern and western West Virginia. — — Map (db m73376) HM
Steam driven grist mill, built ca. 1870 by Henry Koontz, could grind 120 bu. of grain daily. Stone burrs were replaced with iron rollers in 1894, improving output and quality, and representing peak technological development for a local flour mill. . . . — — Map (db m164464) HM
West Virginia University was chartered by an act of the Legislature on February 7, 1867 and was called the "Agricultural College of West Virginia." In 1868, the name was changed to "West Virginia University." As early as 1867, the liberal arts . . . — — Map (db m134284) HM
Beneath this ground rests a 30-inch raw water pipeline that extends four miles from the Flegal Dam and Reservoir along Cobun Creek to the Morgantown Water Treatment Plant. This gravity-fed pipeline is critical to ensuring a safe, clean water . . . — — Map (db m257703) HM
Elizabeth Moore Hall
Built in 1928
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m134306) HM
Walkway is named in honor of F. Duke Perry and is dedicated to honor his vision and leadership of the West Virginia University Foundation from 1999 through 2006. Under his guidance, the construction of One Waterfront Place served as the foundation . . . — — Map (db m195962) HM
First Methodist Protestant Church
Founded 1830
Old Stone House
Chestnut Street
Cornerstone Laid
September 7, 1907
Spruce and Fayette Streets
Morgantown, West Virginia — — Map (db m172507) HM
First Pottery. The first pottery in West Virginia was founded here about 1785 and the making of pottery was important before 1800. John Scott, Jacob Foulk, John Thompson, and Francis Billingsley were among the first potters.
Old Iron . . . — — Map (db m157691) HM
The Forks of Cheat Baptist Church, organized by the Rev. John Corbly on November 5, 1775 with 12 charter members, has the distinction of being the oldest church with continuous records west of the Alleghenies in what is now West Virginia. It . . . — — Map (db m229009) HM
John Pierpont, Revolutionary soldier and the son-in-law of Zackquill Morgan, built a fort in 1769. Washington was his guest in 1784. Here was born Francis H. Pierpont, who played an important part in the formation of West Virginia. — — Map (db m117095) HM
Fossilized tree stumps found in the rock above coal seams are referred to as "kettle bottoms". When the coal is removed, kettle bottoms, similar to this one fall out into the mine entry. This fossil is approximately 300 million years old of the . . . — — Map (db m228184) HM
West Virginia's rich traditions and culture nurtured an artistic
sensibility in Burl Jones which enabled him to become one of the
country's most respected bronze sculptors. Born near Charleston,
Burl excelled in academics and athletics and . . . — — Map (db m173212) HM
A Landscape Transformed
For much of the 20th century, the Tibbs Run Reservoir supplied Morgantown with fresh mountain water. By the late 1960s, as new reservoirs and the Monongahela River became the city's primary sources, Tibbs Run . . . — — Map (db m312607) HM
One half mile north of this marker stood the house where George Washington stopped in September 1784 and conferred with leading men of this section “pursuing my inquiries respecting the navigation of the western waters”. Eager to . . . — — Map (db m117094) HM
The rail-trail you are standing on today exists not only because trains because trains rumbled through here in the past, but because this corridor may be needed for trains in the future. In 1983, the U.S. Congress amended the National Trails System . . . — — Map (db m134251) HM
In 1788 Joshua Low was given a land patent which included property near the mining village of Brady in Grant District, Monongalia County. In 1871 his grandson, also named Joshua, built what is now known as Grant Cabin on the land. He and his wife . . . — — Map (db m197308) HM
This lawn area was a farm field when WVU acquired it in 1948. By 1951, Biology Department faculty and graduate students began to plant trees and shrubs here for purposes of study and display.
At first, the emphasis of the plantings was on . . . — — Map (db m172806) HM
Site of West Virginia University's first building erected solely for the work of medical education. This 14' by 20' structure was built at a cost of $350 and used for dissection of cadavers. It became known locally as "The Hick House due to a . . . — — Map (db m178202) HM
For all that he was as an All-American basketball player at West Virginia University, there are many who believed "Hot" Rod Hundley could have been so much more. He was a self-made basketball player who played the game the way he wanted - which . . . — — Map (db m175962) HM
This property was home to the Hough-Hall Family for 90 years, until 2005. Most recent owners were Evelyn Hough-Hall, French M. Hall and Terry W. Hall. — — Map (db m188279) HM
The Main Dam Keeps Water In
The dam you are standing on held back the reservoir water. Workers used clay, sand, stones, and other materials from this site. They dug into the bedrock so the dam would not leak underneath. Big stones were . . . — — Map (db m312467) HM
Arthur J. Murray Civil War
CPL. Rush C. Hatch, WWII
BM2 Ernest C. Hilling (NIN), WWII
PFC Foster A. Hilling, WWII
PVT Gaylord R. Hilling, Korean
PVT Robert Hilling, Korean
PFG Harold J. Hilling (Bubby), WWII
PFC . . . — — Map (db m173235) WM
Who on the 24th day of March 1846 gave the land on which this church is built to be used to erect a house for the worship of the Holy Creator, God, forever.
This plaque is presented in memoriam by all who have found blessed salvation . . . — — Map (db m173502) HM
She was the little girl with her brother Stephen in the melon patch when her father, David Morgan had his famous fight with two Indians near Rivesville, W. Va. Apr. 1st 1779. — — Map (db m188244) HM
Once part of the Burris farm, site holds a limestone monument to Sarah Morgan Burrows (Burris) erected in 1910 to commemorate a raid on the Morgan homestead near Rivesville by Native Americans, during which her father, frontiersman and French and . . . — — Map (db m186184) HM
Designer: Duane S. Ellifritt, PhD WVU 1970
Professor Emeritus, Civil Engineering, University of Florida
Designed in 1985 and first constructed in 1986
Plans Furnished by: American Institute of Steel Construction
Sculpture Donated . . . — — Map (db m261225) HM
(Rodgers):
College Football Hall of
Fame - 1953
Consensus All-American - 1919
(Mozes):
Consensus All-American - 2006 Rimington Trophy Winner as Nation's Top Center - 2006 — — Map (db m311072) HM
WVU College of Business
& Economic
1989 - 1998
September 11, 2001
North Tower, World Trade Center
Floor 92
Dedicated By Parents, Jim & Linda Samuel,
Sister, Jennifer Agresto, Girlfriend, Jackie Curcio,
Neice, Mikayla . . . — — Map (db m175869) WM
(Hostetler):
Super Bowl XXI and XXV Champion
NFL Pro Bowl 1994
(Hall of Fame Bowl):
WVU 20 Kentucky 16
WVU rallies from halftime deficit to win. — — Map (db m308095) HM
Jerry West, a native of Chelyan, W.Va., established 17 WVU records and led the Mountaineers to a mark of 61-12 during his career (1958-60) as West Virginia
earned three straight NCAA berths and came within two points of winning the national . . . — — Map (db m175833) HM
(Braxton):
First Team All-American - 1970
(Cobourne):
Leading rusher in WVU History
Only WVU player to rush for 1,000 yards in four straight seasons (1999-2002) — — Map (db m308878) HM
Born in Monongalia County in 1827, he was a delegate to the First and Second Wheeling Conventions and a member of the Restored Government of Virginia. Appointed colonel of the 7th WV Infantry in 1862, he was wounded at Fredericksburg. In late 1863, . . . — — Map (db m104396) HM
84 Paul Bischoff
First Time All-American - 1952
66 Chuck Howley
Super Bowl V MVP
NFL All-Pro - 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970
75 Sam Huff
Pro Football Hall of Fame - 1982
. . . — — Map (db m174360) HM
20 Russ Meredith
First Team All-American - 1922
12 Oliver Luck
NFL Executive
CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame - 2000
90 Darryl Talley
College Football Hall of Fame - . . . — — Map (db m174361) HM
