Charles Town

Charles Town is a West Virginia historical marker in courthouse square., Jefferson County.

Jefferson County · U. S. 340, W. Va. 9, and W. Va. 51, courthouse square. · location approximate

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Founded in 1786 by Charles Washington, brother of the President. Here John Brown was tried and convicted of treason. Home of W. L. Wilson, Postmaster-General, 1896, who here started the first rural free delivery in America.

1937 text, presented as a historical document. It uses the period's terms for Native and Black people, and tells frontier history from the settler's side.

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Marker data: State Road Commission of West Virginia, West Virginia Historic and Scenic Highway Markers (1937), text by Ross B. Johnston

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On the National Register nearby

Downtown Charles Town Historic District150 ft
Jefferson County Courthouse200 ft

Places within about 300 feet of this marker that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A nearby listing is not always the marker's own subject.