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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM17JF_civil-war-monument_Union-WV.html
On Aug. 21, 1901, this 20 ft. monument with a 6 ft. statue depicting typical Confederate soldier was dedicated to the Monroe County men who served the lost cause. Hinton Marble Works produced the Italian marble statue, standing on granite pedestal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16HU_great-eastern-divide_Gap-Mills-WV.html
At this point atop the Alleghenies is the geographical feature known as the Great Eastern Divide, a natural barrier from which water flows to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the Jackson and James rivers and to the Gulf of Mexico via the Greebrier, Ne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1498_union-western-virginia_Union-WV.html
The Confederate Monument, dedicated in 1901 to honor the local men who served the South, is up the walkway to your left. Thirteen Confederate companies were formed here in Monroe County.
From the top of the hill, behind the monument and the tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1496_rehoboth-church_Union-WV.html
Oldest extant Protestant church west of the Alleghenies. Erected 1786 on land donated by Edward Keenan. Bishop Francis Asbury preached here in July 1788, held three Methodist conferences in 1790's, and performed the first Methodist ordination west…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1495_union-college_Union-WV.html
The white building in front of you and the red brick house behind you are the former Union College, a Presbyterian school founded in 1820 as Union Academy and the earliest private school still standing in West Virginia. The white dormitory-dining …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1494_william-porcher-miles_Union-WV.html
In Green Hill Cemetery is the grave of William Porcher Miles, who was a Congressman from SC, a signer of the SC Ordinance of Secession and a member of the Confederate Congress. During the Civil War he served on the staff of General PGT Beauregard …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1493_gen-john-echols-house_Union-WV.html
This is the home of John Echols, lawyer and general in the Confederate army. A graduate of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia, he also attended the Virginia Military Institute and Harvard University.
After John Brown's failed Harpers Fe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1492_general-john-echols_Union-WV.html
Gen. Echols was born March 20, 1823 in Lynchburg, Virginia. He entered the Confederate Army from his home in Union. With rank of Lieut. Col., Echols commanded the 27th Virginia Brigade. Staunton Infantry, at Manassas and was severely wounded at Ke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1491_crooks-occupation-of-union_Union-WV.html
In May 1864, as Union Gen. George Crook led his force through Union on a Sunday morning after his victory at Cloyd's Mountain, VA., on May 9, "there was a Sabbath stillness, scarcely anyone to be seen." Although some of the Federals thought that U…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1490_chapman-house_Union-WV.html
This is the Chapman House, built in 1803 and the home of one of Union's most prominent families. Augustus A. Chapman and his son, George Beirne Chapman, both served the Confederacy in the Civil War.
Augustus Chapman, an attorney, was twice a m…