Named for three friends. Near this spot, on Middle Wheeling Creek, Jonathan Link built a blockhouse in 1780. Next year a band of 20 Indians killed Link and two companions and captured and tomahawked Presley Peak and William Hawkins.

Marker is on National Road (U.S. 40) east of Chapel Mill Road (Local Route 8), on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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