First County Seat/Fort Minear
Inscription
Here stood Tucker's first courthouse. Confederate flag raised over it, May, 1861. The town changed sides ten times during the Civil War. "County Seat War" ended Aug 1, 1893, when records removed by armed men.
[Reverse]
Erected by John Minear in 1776, who with a group of immigrants later founded St. George. Settlement site of American Indian raids in spring of 1780. Minear and son Jonathan among those killed in 1781 attack.
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More markers in Tucker
Saint George Academy
Incorporated July 20, 1885 by William H. Lipscomb, John J. Adams, Bascom B. Baker, Ezekiel Harper, Sansome E. Parsons, Wilson B. Maxwell,...
St. George
First county seat. Here John Minear and son, Jonathan, after early visits, settled in 1776.
Parsons/Corrick's Ford
John Crouch, pioneer settler, established "tomahawk rights" here in 1766, but the town was not incorporated until 1893.
Corrick's Ford
After the Confederate defeat in the Tygarts Valley early in 1861, Gen. R. S. Garnett, the Southern leader, withdrew.
Seneca Trail
The Seneca Trail, or Warriors' Path, was the Indian highway from New York to the South.