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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CM5_organized-pendleton-county_Franklin-WV.html
Organized Pendleton County. On this site on 2 June 1788 in a building owned by Seriah Stratton and formerly the property Col. Benjamin Wilson. Pendleton County was organized by justices commissioned by Virginia Governor Edmund Randolph from portio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CHN_destruction-of-saltpeter-works_Franklin-WV.html
Destruction of Saltpeter Works. A key component of gun powder,the saltpeter mined near Franklin was of great importance to the South during the Civil War. On August 19, 1863, during his raid of Pendleton and surrounding counties, Union Gen. Willia…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13U3_mccoy-house_Franklin-WV.html
(Preface): Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's unsuccessful attack on Union forces at Kernstown on March 23, 1862, alarmed Federal officials, who assigned additional troops to the Shenandoah Valley to guard against a Confederate assault on Washin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUA7_last-union-raid_Franklin-WV.html
On the evening of January 13, 1865, Union Maj. Elias S. Troxel, 22nd Pennsylvania Cavalry, was leading a two-hundred-man scouting expedition south from New Creek in present-day Mineral County. After passing through Petersburg, he joined Capt. John…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN2V_trout-rock-fort_Franklin-WV.html
The Trout Rock Fort was one in the chain of forts that the Virginia House of Burgesses in March 1756 directed Washington to erect for the defense of settlers in the South Branch Valley. It also marks the end of Gen. Stonewall Jackson's pursuit of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN2T_trout-rock_Franklin-WV.html
At this gap defeated Union forces slowed the pursuit of "Stonewall" Jackson following the battle of McDowell in May 1862. The site was used by Confederate forces to make gunpowder from saltpeter secured in nearby cave.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN2S_confederate-prayer-service_Franklin-WV.html
Near this site, in May 1862, following the battle of Mcdowell, General "Stonewall" Jackson received orders to return to the Shenandoah Valley while attending church service with the army.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN26_devonian-shale_Franklin-WV.html
The carbonaceous shale exposed in the quarry is the Marcellus brown and black shale of the driller. it yields large amounts of natural gas in southern West Virginia.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN25_pendleton-county-world-war-i-memorial_Franklin-WV.html
"By fairy hands their knell is rungby forms unseen their dirge is sung"Dedicated tothese heroesofPendleton Countywho madethe supreme sacrificein the World War1914 - 1918Killed in actionJohn Dayton Dove - RivertonRaymond L. Harman - FranklinWilliam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN24_franklin_Franklin-WV.html
Settled, 1769. Named for its founder, Francis Evick. John Van Meter first reached the South Branch, 1725. Roger Dyer and others came in 1745. Site of Federal camp of Gen. John C. Fremont, 1862, on way to attack "Stonewall" Jackson.