Marion County/Taylor County
Inscription
Formed, 1844, from Marion, Harrison and Barbour. Named for John Taylor of Virginia. This county was the home of Bailey Brown, first Union soldier killed in the Civil War. He was shot, May 22, 1861, at Fetterman, now Grafton.
[Reverse]
Formed, 1842, from Harrison and Monongalia. Named for hero of the Revolution, Gen. Francis Marion. County was home of Francis H. Pierpont, leader in formation of this State. The Monongahela River forms just above Fairmont.
Location
Sources
More markers in Marion
Indian Raid
Here Nicholas Wood and Jacob Straight were killed and Mrs. Elizabeth Dragoo captured during Indian raid in 1786.
Fairmont State College
Fairmont, WV
Founded through private enterprise in 1865.
Confederate Cemetery
Fairmont, WV
Near this point, in a mass grave, lie the remains of 39 Confederate soldiers from the 6th, 7th, 11th and 12th Virginia cavalry...
Mannington/Flaggy Meadow
Once called Koontown but renamed in 1856 when chartered as town by Va.
Waitman T. Willey
Farmington, WV
A mile north stood the cabin in which Waitman T. Willey, the State's first U.S. Senator was born, October 18, 1811.