Gen. Joseph Neville

Hardy County · U. S. 220 and W. Va. 28 at Moorefield · location approximate

Near here, grave of General Joseph Neville; officer in the Revolution; member of conventions of 1775 and 1776. With Alexander McLean of Pennsylvania, he completed the survey of Mason and Dixon's line in 1782. His son, Joseph, was a major general in the War of 1812.

1937 text, presented as a historical document.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.

David Rumsey 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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