Historical Markers and War Memorials in Clarksburg, West Virginia
Clarksburg is the county seat for Harrison County
Clarksburg is in Harrison County
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On West Main Street at South 3rd Street, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
Birthplace of General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson. After a brilliant Mexican War record, he joined the Confederacy in 1861, earned his nickname and advancement in rank in first Battle of Bull Run, and was killed at Chancellorsville. — — Map (db m73406) HM
On West Main Street at Court Street, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
(side 1)
Established 1785. Named for Gen. George Rogers Clark. John Simpson camped here in 1764. Early permanent settlements were made by the Davissons, Cottrills, Sotha Hickman, Nicholas Carpenter, and others.
(side 2) . . . — — Map (db m73413) HM
On West Main Street just east of South 3rd Street, on the left when traveling east.
On April 22, 1861, in Clarksburg, about 1,200 citizens of Harrison County met to oppose Virginia's proposed ordinance of secession. They supported John Carlile's call for delegates to meet on May 13 in Wheeling to determine a course of action for . . . — — Map (db m184744) HM
On April 20, 1863, Confederate Gens. William E. “Grumble” Jones and John D. Imboden began a raid from Virginia through present-day West Virginia against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Taking separate routes, they later reported . . . — — Map (db m58717) HM
Combat Wounded. Dear friend, beware as you stand by. As you are now, so once was I. As I am now, so you will be. So get prepared to follow me. “To follow you I am not content. Until I know which way you went.”
We are such things as dreams . . . — — Map (db m104605) WM
On West Main Street east of Sumner Street, on the right when traveling east.
Born along Devils Crk. in the Millstone Valley of New Jersey. Married
Prudence Izzard of Phil. in 1772. Came to Harrison Co. Va. in 1773 with wife
father, Obadiah, uncles John, Andrew, Amaziah and families. His survey
listed 400 acres in 1773 . . . — — Map (db m184966) HM
On West Main Street east of Sumner Street, on the right when traveling east.
Site of Hopewell Baptist Church and burial place of Daniel Davisson. Major in Revolution. Commander of Nutter Fort and High Sheriff of Harrison County, he donated land for county buildings and this cemetery in the year of 1790. — — Map (db m184812) HM
On West Main Street just east of South 3rd Street, on the left when traveling east.
Born in 1817, he practiced law and served in the Virginia Senate and US Congress. At the 1861 Richmond Convention, he opposed secession. Although he led efforts to create a new state and wrote "A Declaration of the People of Virginia" calling for a . . . — — Map (db m184802) HM
On West Pike Street (U.S. 19) at Milford Street (U.S. 19), in the median on West Pike Street.
In 1764, John Simpson, hunter and trapper, established a camp here on the bank of the West Fork River opposite the mouth of Elk Creek. He was the first white man in the area. Simpson Creek and the town of Simpson are named for him. — — Map (db m174580) HM
On South Second Street at West Pike Street (West Virginia Highway 20), on the right when traveling north on South Second Street. Reported damaged.
From 1861 through 1865, Clarksburg was temporary home to hundreds of Union soldiers. Although many tents and huts were erected to quarter he men, soldiers occupied every public building at one time or another. You are facing the site of one such . . . — — Map (db m58718) HM
On Clarksburg Park Way (West Virginia Route 98) 0.4 miles south of Milford Street (U.S. 19), on the left when traveling south.
Directly to the east are two earthen, domed burial mounds. The larger mound is some sixty feet in diameter and twelve feet high. Excavations in 1969 revealed flint tools, pottery sherds and skeletal remains of two individuals. Site dates to about . . . — — Map (db m174582) HM
On West Main Street just east of South 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east.
A seven-story building, the first concrete-steel building to be constructed in West Virginia. The first three stories were constructed in 1911 to house the Palace Furniture Company. In 1921 four stories were added to the building, as was the Neo . . . — — Map (db m185414) HM
On West Main Street at South 5th Street, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
The house in which Thomas J. Jackson was born on January 21, 1824, stood across the street and halfway down the block to your right (marked with a bronze plaque). His father struggled to make ends meet and poverty marred Jackson’s childhood. Both . . . — — Map (db m166847) HM
"...So build your community that quickened conscience, larger vision, deeper devotion and equality of rights for all will resolve itself into an enthusiastic zeal for personal service in the community. All who give service are torch bearers." . . . — — Map (db m73414) HM
On East Pike Street (West Virginia Route 20) west of Charleston Avenue, on the left when traveling west.
In this cemetery lie buried members of the Stonewall Jackson family: his father Jonathan, a sister Elizabeth, his great grandparents John Jackson and wife Elizabeth Cummings. Buried here also are Mrs. Mary Payne Jackson and Mrs. Mary Coles Payne, . . . — — Map (db m175548) HM
On West Main Street at Court Street, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
"Look at Jackson there -- Standing like a stone wall"
Brig. Gen. Bee, at the First Battle of Manassas
Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson, Lt. General, C.S.A. Born in Clarksburg, January 21, 1824. Died May 10, 1863, from wounds . . . — — Map (db m73407) HM WM
On West Main Street at Court Street, on the left when traveling east on West Main Street.
On this site stood the birthplace of
Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson
Lieutenant General C.S.A.
Born January 21, 1824-Died May 10, 1863 — — Map (db m73403) HM
On South 2nd Street at West Pike Street (West Virginia Route 20), on the right when traveling north on South 2nd Street.
Built in 1894 and named in honor of Reverend George Towers, graduate of Oxford, England who was a teacher at Randolph Academy. The Academy, authorized by the Virginia Assembly in 1787, stood just to the east and was the principal regional school . . . — — Map (db m73405) HM
On West Main Street at South 3rd Street, on the right when traveling east on West Main Street.
Harrison County was among the first jurisdictions in western Virginia to support the Union. A pro-Union meeting was called for November 24, 1860, at the Clarksburg Courthouse, just after Abraham Lincoln had been elected president and many Southern . . . — — Map (db m73418) HM
On Clarksburg Park Way (West Virginia Route 98) 0.4 miles south of Milford Street (U.S. 19), on the right when traveling south.
A 212-bed general medical and surgical hospital, dedicated Dec. 17, 1950 and activated for patients in March 1951. It maintains 97 medical, 90 surgical and 25 psychiatric beds. It is affiliated with the West Virginia University School of Medicine. — — Map (db m174651) HM
On West Pike Street (West Virginia Route 20) at North 4th Street, on the right when traveling west on West Pike Street.
Waldomore.
Built by Waldo P. Goff, father of
Nathan Goff, in 1842, Waldomore is
a two-story Neo-Classical Revival
brick mansion used as the family
home until the death of May Goff
Lowndes in 1930. Left by her to
the City of Clarksburg . . . — — Map (db m174510) HM
