Col. J. A. Washington

Randolph County · U. S. 219 at Elkwater · location approximate

Here, September 13, 1861, Colonel John Augustine Washington, aide-de-camp to General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army, was killed. He was the last of the resident owners of Mt. Vernon which he had sold in 1859 to become a national shrine.

1937 text, presented as a historical document.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.

Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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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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