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Sign located on Rt. 33 at the top of Allegheny Mountain at GPS co-ordinates N38°53'36.2" W79°28'03.9". Sign reads : Randolph County - Formed, 1787, from Harrison. Named for Edmund Jennings Randolph. Virginia Statesman and soldier. Largest county in the State. Federal dominance of the Tygart's Valley in the Civil War largely determined control of West Virginia.
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Sign located beside the Randolph County Courthouse in Elkins, W.Va. at GPS co-ordinates N39°55'20.5" W079°50'35.0" Sign reads: Elkins - Names for Senator Stephen B. Elkins. Home of Senator Henry G. Davis. Headquarters for the Monongahela National Forest. Near site of Friend's Fort. Old Seneca Indian Trail crosses the campus of Davis and Elkins College.
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Sign located at intersection of US 33 and US 219 in Elkins, W.Va. at GPS co-ordinates N38°55'03.9" W79°50'34.4". Sign reads: Kump House - Home of Gov. Herman Guy Kump. Built 1924-25, on site of Civil War era Goddin Tavern. Designed by Clarence Harding of Washington, DC. Eleanor Roosevelt and other notables were guests during the 1930s and '40s. Names to the National Register in 1983.
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Sign located at intersection of US Rt. 250 & US Rt. 219 in Huttonsville, W.Va. at GPS N38°42'39.0" W79°58'47.6". Sign reads: Ary Headquarters - 1861 - This village was held by Colonel George Porterfield until he was relieved of command by General Robert Garnett, (C.S.A.). In 1861, it became the headquarters of Generals George McClellan and J. J. Reynolds of the Union Army.
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Sign located across from Huttonsville Prison on US Rt. 250 at GPS co-ordinates N38°41'29.1" W79°58'27.4". Sign reads: Old Brick Church - Tygart's Valley Presbyterian Church, organized in 1820. A brick building erected three-fourths mile west at the cemetery was destroyed by Union soldiers in 1862-1863 and the bricks used for building flues at the winter quarters.
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Sign located along US Rt. 250 in Beverly, W.VA. at GPS co-ordinates N38°50'30.5" W79°52'28.8". Sign reads: Rich Mountain - At Rich Mountain, 5 miles west, July 11, 1861, Federal forces defeated Confederate troops whose trenches may still be seen. Military reputations of Gen. Geo. B. McClellan and Gen. W.S. Rosecrans were established by this victory.
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Sign located along US Rt. 250 in Beverly, W.Va. at GPS co-ordinates N38°50'26.6" W29°52'30.8". Sign reads: Beverly - 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.
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