Inscription
Settled about 1753 by Robert Files and David Tygart. Files' family was massacred near by. Site of Westfall's Fort, 1774. In Mt. Iser Cemetery are the Union trenches and graves of Confederate soldiers killed in Battle of Rich Mountain.
Location
AddressUS 219 (northbound), Beverly
CityBeverly
CountyRandolph
StateWest Virginia
Coordinates38.737720, -79.904580
Sources
More markers in Randolph
Randolph County/Tucker County
Formed, 1787, from Harrison.
Wilson's Fort
Here, 1772, settled Captain Benjamin Wilson, commanding Wilson, Friend, Roney forts.
Indian Mound
The Hyre-Crouch Mound, on the terrace above highway, was totally excavated and reconstructed by the State, 1963.
Randolph County/Upshur County
Formed, 1787, from Harrison.
Benjamin Wilson
Airport Hill, WV
In 1774 Capt. Benjamin Wilson was made a colonel in Lord Dunmore's army when it invaded the Indian country.
