West Virginia / Alleghany County, Virginia
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West Virginia
West Virginia was long a part of Virginia. Morgan Morgan began the settlement of the region in 1727. A great battle with the Indians took place at Point Pleasant in 1774. West Virginia became a separate state of the Union in 1863.
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Alleghany County, Virginia
Area 458 Square Miles
Formed in 1822 from Bath, Botetourt, and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann in this county a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, 1763.
Marker is on Interstate 64 0.6 miles east of Jerry's Run Road (Virginia Route 198), on the right when traveling east.
Courtesy hmdb.org
