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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQJM_wellsburg_Wellsburg-WV.html
Established in 1791. Brooke Academy, started, 1778, incorporated in 1799. Here lived Joseph Doddridge, the author of "Frontier Notes," and Patrick Gass, member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and author of its "Journal."
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMQI5_isaac-duvall-and-company_Wellsburg-WV.html
The first glass house in Western Virginia was built at Charlestown, now Wellsburg, in 1813, by Isaac Taylor Duvall and Company. It was located on the southeast corner of Fifth and Yankee Streets. Cobalt blue, green and clear flint glass wares were…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMNE_george-washington-crossing-1770_Colliers-WV.html
George Washington began a journey on October 5, 1770 to the Ohio Country to see lands he had fought to win and now hoped to own. After a trip, on November 3, up the Kanawha River, the party headed back up the Ohio River. On November 17, they reach…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAF_wellsburgs-giant-sycamore_Wellsburg-WV.html
This giant Sycamore tree stands at the top of the Wellsburg Wharf it was planted in the early years of the 19th century by Dr. Albert Wheeler who practiced medicine in Wellsburg until his death in 1864.
It was under this tree that militiamen ga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAD_the-lewis-and-clark-connection_Wellsburg-WV.html
The Corps of Discovery, under the command of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, was the first official expedition through the interior of the North American Continent sponsored by the United States.
Captain Meriwether Lewis passed Charles Town…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEAB_wellsburg-wharf_Wellsburg-WV.html
In the 1790's, flatboats left here with their cargoes for southern markets. To accommodate and store products, warehouses and wharfs were built along our river banks. This wharf, which was established in the 1800's, extended twenty feet out in the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEA9_the-wellsburg-united-methodist-church_Wellsburg-WV.html
Methodism in Wellsburg dates back to 1787 with the establishment of the "Ohio Circuit." Early services were held in "The Academy" on High Street. Bishop Asbury preached at the courthouse on September 6, 1803.
On April 19, 1816, John Prather, so…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEA8_1788-wells-log-house_Wellsburg-WV.html
Constructed by Alexander Wells at65 Washington St., Buffaloe, Virginia(present day Third St.,Wellsburg, West Virginia)
The Wells Log House was, and is, in the"National Register of Historic Places"District of Wellsburg (registered 1981)
The f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEA3_patrick-gass_Wellsburg-WV.html
Sergeant on the Lewis and ClarkExpedition, he published the firstaccount of that exploration in 1807
Veteran of the War of 1812, hefought in the Battle of Lundy's Laneand at Fort Erie
Citizen of Wellsburg for more thanhalf a century, he marr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEA2_millers-tavern_Wellsburg-WV.html
Built by John Henderson prior to 1798 in Federal style, the building was leased by William Miller and operated as a tavern for 50 years. Since 1974 building has housed the Brooke County Museum.