Historical Markers and War Memorials in McConnellsburg, Pennsylvania
McConnellsburg is the county seat for Fulton County
McConnellsburg is in Fulton County
Fulton County(46) ► ADJACENT TO FULTON COUNTY Bedford County(92) ► Franklin County(207) ► Huntingdon County(82) ► Allegany County, Maryland(267) ► Washington County, Maryland(848) ►
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Family-owned businesses on Main Street have evolved to meet changes in demand for products. Stoner's Novelty Store is a good example. Albert Stoner built this structure in 1899 as a tinsmith workshop and store. In the 1920s, his son Frank expanded . . . — — Map (db m19566) HM
Over the course of the last century, the facades and functions of Main Street businesses across America have evolved. In the 1920s and '30s, Linn Motor Sales, a car dealership and service station, occupied this site. Since that time, the building . . . — — Map (db m167240) HM
Formed April 19, 1850 out of Bedford County. Named for steamboat inventor Robert Fulton. Scene of Confederacy's first casualties in the Gettysburg Campaign, and its last campsite (1864) in Pennsylvania. McConnellsburg, county seat, incorporated 1814 — — Map (db m19521) HM
(Dedication Plaque):This park forum and bronze tablets erected by the citizens of Fulton County as a memorial to her soldiers who served in the Civil War, the Spanish-American War and the World War. (Top of Civil War Plaque): These . . . — — Map (db m19529) HM
Fallen Soldiers of
Fulton County, PA.
CW2 Jonathan C. Helman 12-11-2002 (Honduras)
SSG Christopher E. Cutchall 9-29-2003 (Iraq)
LCpl Steven W. Szwydek 10-20-2005 (Iraq)
[A Second Marker]
In Honor and Remembrance
of the . . . — — Map (db m19550) WM
George Diven, a farmer and wagoner, who lived in what is now Fulton County, was the earliest inventor of the friction brake for Conestoga wagons in the 1840's. His brake shoe design has influenced friction type brakes ever since. In 1926 . . . — — Map (db m82782) HM
Located at the fork of Route 16 and The Lincoln Way -the Road Without Toll, Johnnie's Motel was built in the 1940s to serve the many motorists passing through McConnellsburg. The motel's neon sign advertises rooms with private showers! Business . . . — — Map (db m167241) HM
Carved out of a remote wilderness, McConnellsburg served the flood of travelers heading west in the late 18th century. Taverns, like the Fulton House, sprang up all along the packhorse trail from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.
Whether by . . . — — Map (db m167242) HM
William L. Mosebey, Jr., the son of W. Lyle and Edyth Mosebey, was raised in Fulton County, Pennsylvania. In 1955 he graduated from Forbes High School in Hustontown, he then attended Pennsylvania State University graduated in 1959 with a degree . . . — — Map (db m192331) HM
