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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13U9_randolph-county-jail_Beverly-WV.html
(Preface):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 that th…
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Life in Beverly changed following the Union victory at Rich Mountain on July 11, 1861. Many of the community's outspoken Southern sympathizers fled south. Some of those who remained resented the hardship that came with Union occupation, although L…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13IT_shavers-fork_Huttonsville-WV.html
Mountaintop Watershed Near this point the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike crossed the Shavers Fork of the Cheat River, going over Cheat Mountain at a high point of almost 4000 feet at White Top. The Shavers Fork forms a high elevation watershed o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13IR_cabin-remains_Huttonsville-WV.html
This area is where troops were quartered. Most cabins within the earthworks were lumber structures with bark roofs. These measured roughly 40 feet by 20 feet and were extremely crowed at times. The circular mounds usually represent collapsed chimn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13IN_astride-the-road-from-nowhere_Huttonsville-WV.html
"Our tents were pitched on a rocky point with a fine forest on every side and a magnificent view of the Alleghenies on front of us, a beautiful romantic, though desolate spot." - William Houghton, 14th Indiana Infantry, July 16, 186 Indiana Histor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13IL_guarding-the-turnpike_Huttonsville-WV.html
Federal forces built Cheat Summit Fort to control the strategic Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, the road below you. It ran from Virginia to Parkersburg, (West) Virginia. When finished, the turnpike opened the first continuous route between Richmond…
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Union soldiers built the main earthworks here to provide defense. They made the embankment by forming a crib with spruce logs. The crib was then filled with earth and stone. Such a fortification would provide protection from rifle and artillery…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13IH_cheat-summit-fort_Huttonsville-WV.html
Cheat Summit Fort, also called "Fort Milroy," was constructed by Federal troops in the summer of 1861. The fort was positioned to control the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike. Initial work was conducted by six companies of the 14th Indiana Infantry R…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMX5F_crawford-scott_Norton-WV.html
"Crawford Scott 1816-1893 In commemoration of his loyalty to Abraham Lincoln and of his services as a guide to the Union forces during the Civil War of 1861-1865 while living on this farm first native of Randolph County to promote the commercial d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV6K_old-brick-church_Huttonsville-WV.html
Tygart's Valley Presbyterian Church, organized in 1820. A brick building erected three-fourths mile west at the cemetery was destroyed by Union soldiers in 1862-1863 and the bricks used for building flues at the winter quarters.
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