Did your family live in West Virginia? Load your tree to see which of these places stand near where they lived. Try it with your own tree
The marker texts West Virginia's State Road Commission published in 1937, the founding cohort of the state's roadside marking, now have permanent pages at TreeAlive, each on a georeferenced map from the period it commemorates.
308 marker pages, on more than 83,000 historical map sheets. State Road Commission of West Virginia (1937), credited on every page.
Every dot is a live page. Click one to preview it or add it to a road trip; many dots hold several markers each; click a busy spot to zoom in. Prefer a list? Browse all 308 markers by county.
TreeAlive maps family trees. When a visitor's ancestors lived in West Virginia, the markers standing near those places surface automatically alongside their family's journey:
Berkeley Springs · near where a family lived in the 1770s · the springs Washington first visited in 1748, made a town in 1776
When a marker stands near a place in your own tree, you have a personal reason to go see it. Open the live demo tree, choose the Crossings tab, and turn on Historical Markers to see the experience working (the demo family’s markers are in Pennsylvania; a West Virginia family sees West Virginia’s).
Browsing all 308 markers by county.
Scan: Harpers Ferry marker