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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HMK_summersville_Summersville-WV.html
Summersville was established in 1820 and made the county seat. Nicholas County, which was settled about 1785, was crossed by the Pocahontas Trail which led from the Greenbrier Valley to the valley of the Great Kanawha.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HMJ_hawks-nest-workers-memorial-and-grave-site_Mount-Lookout-WV.html
This Memorial honors an estimated 764 tunnel workers who died from mining a 3.8 mile tunnel through Gauley Mountain to divert water from the New River to a hydroelectric plant near Gauley Bridge in 1930-31. The tunnel cut through almost pure silic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HKT_hawks-nest-tunnel-disaster-workers-grave-site_Mount-Lookout-WV.html
While digging Hawks Nest Tunnel in early 1930's, hundreds of the mostly black, migrant workforce contracted acute silicosis from silica dust and later died. Many were buried in secret, unmarked graves to the north. In 1971, the bodies were reburie…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HK3_nancy-harts-capture_Summersville-WV.html
Nancy Hart, noted, beautiful Confederate spy, was seized July, 1862, leading attack in which most of Summersville was burned. She killed her guard with his pistol and escaped. She was buried on Manning Knob.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G99_cross-lanes-battle_Keslers-Cross-Lanes-WV.html
Site of surprise attack by the Confederates under General John B. Floyd on the early morning of Aug. 26, 1861 against Federal troops of the 7th Ohio Inf., led by Colonel E.B. Tyler. The Federal soldiers were badly defeated and scattered. They lost…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1G96_keslers-cross-lanes_Summersville-WV.html
Here at the crossroads was an area of early settlement and growth. In 1854 Fred Kessler & John Vaughan opened store; Vaughan appt. postmaster. Site of first meeting of Nicholas County Court; significant Civil War actions of Cross Lanes and Carnife…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM150A_youngs-monument_Birch-River-WV.html
Off Young's Monument Rd. (.3M) is grave site of Henry & Lucinda Young. A Confed. militiaman or sympathizer, he was killed by Union troops nearby on 8 Sept. 1861. Details of Young's life and death are scant and confused, symbolizing divided loyalti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM147B_nancy-hart_Summersville-WV.html
The story of Nancy Hart is a blur of fact and legend. Born in Virginia in 1843, she settled with her family first in southwestern Virginia and then in Roane County by the mid-1950s. There, she grew to young adulthood and learned to ride and shoot …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM147A_kesslers-cross-lanes_Summersville-WV.html
In 1861, both Union and Confederate forces vied for control of Western Virginia. By July, Union Gen. Jacob D. Cox had driven Confederate Gen. Henry A Wise's army out of the Kanawha Valley and was advancing east on the James River and Kanawha Turnp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDZA_camp-gauley_Summersville-WV.html
Used in battle reenactments, these log breastworks stand near the site of the original Confederate entrenchments designated by General Floyd as Camp Gauley. The rebel fortifications consisted of several thousand feet of log breastworks, trenches, …
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