Harrison County WV Historical

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Lowndes Hill Civil War Trench

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Oak Mound Indian Burial

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Eli Marsh House

Roselawn - a large tan farmhouse (1845)of the Federal Period. Eli Marsh was a large land-owner and commandr of the Clarksburg, Virginia Rifles Blues, a militia formed to protect settlers from indian attacks.

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Sycamore School

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7th Day Baptist Church

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Bennett Rider House

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Salem Blockhouse Marker

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Richards Fort Marker

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Salem College Admin Bldg

National Register Listing -
http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/harrison/89000184.pdf

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Watters Smith Park

www.WattersSmithStatePark.com
National Register Listing -
http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/harrison/74002003.pdf

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Fort New Salem

Web Site: www.FortNewSalemFoundation.org

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Bassel House

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Log Cabin 1 - Gregory's Run

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Log Cabin 2 - Gregory's Run

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Log Cabin - Johnston

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Log Cabin -

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Duncan - Maxwell

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Templemoor

National Register Listing -
http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/harrison/82004318.pdf

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Haymond Cemetery

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Fletcher Covered Bridge

National Register Listing -
http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/harrison/81000601.pdf

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Salem Historic District

Charted, 1794, and settled by colony of families from New Jersey. Site of blockhouse where troops were stationed during Indian wars to guard the trail from the Ohio to the West Fork settlements. It is seat of Salem College.

NRHP-http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/harrison/80004022.pdf

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Jackson Cemetery

560 E Pike St
Clarksburg, WV 26301, USA

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"In this cemetery lie buried members of the Stonewall Jackson family, his father Jonathan, a sister Elizabeth, his great grandparents John Jackson and his wife Elizabeth Cummings. Buried here also are Mrs Mary Payne Jackson and Mrs. Mary Coles Payne, sister and mother of Dorothy (Dolly) Madison, wife of President James Madison. Some Civil War solders lie buried in this place called Jackson Park."

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Towers School

212 W Pike St
Clarksburg, WV 26301, USA

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"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 from 1795 to 1843. The Northwestern Virginia Academy, incorporated by the Virginia Legislature in 1842, Occupied this site from 1843 - 1893."

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John Powers' Fort

On Simpson Creek is site of fort built by John Powers, 1771. Nearby is grave of Col. Benjamin Wilson, soldier and settler. Here lived Joseph Johnson, only Virginia governor from west of Alleghenies; first elected by popular vote.

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Simpson Creek Covered Bridge

A.S. Hugill built 75' long by 14' wide multiple king-post truss bridge in 1881 for $1483 on land of John Lowe. Survived great flood of 1888 but was washed away from original site 1/2 mile upstream in 1899.

NRHP - http://www.wvculture.org/shpo/nr/pdf/harrison/81000600.pdf

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Waldomore