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* Morgantown Wharf and Warehouse Historic District, Morgantown, West Virginia, listed on the NRHP in Monongalia County, West Virginia
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The more recently constructed Interstate 68 parallels the old road from Hancock through Cumberland west to Keyser's Ridge, Maryland, where the National Road and U. S. 40 turn northwest into Pennsylvania, but I-68 continues directly west to meet Interstate 79 near Morgantown, West Virginia.
The county is included in the Morgantown, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, and is the largest county in North-Central West Virginia.
Future state highway plans call for the establishment of direct freeway connections with Pittsburgh to the north and Morgantown, West Virginia to the south.
* 25px25px Pennsylvania Route 43-part of the Mon-Fayette Expressway, it serves as a toll freeway currently connecting Uniontown to the southern Pittsburgh suburb of Jefferson Hills, with eventually plans to extend the route to the city limits ; to the south, it provides high-speed freeway access to Morgantown, West Virginia
West, Morgantown, Gilmer McLaurin, Joseph F Frazier, Robert Lewis Middle School, Central Alternative School, Natchez High School, and Fallin Career and Technology Center.
According to many townspeople, in the early days of transportation if you made it from Morgantown, West Virginia to the borough by 4: 00 P. M. you had a " fair chance " of making it to Uniontown before sundown.
US 119 enters the area as a two-lane route from Morgantown, West Virginia, and provides the northern half of the bypass before becoming a 4 lane route to Connellsville.
Addison is located at ( 39. 7472 ,-79. 3331 ), about WNW of Cumberland, Maryland and about ENE of Morgantown, West Virginia.
Keyser is the home of the Potomac State College of West Virginia University, a junior college that serves primarily as a feeder college to WVU's main campus in Morgantown.
Cheat Lake is typically viewed as an affluent suburb of nearby Morgantown, though in terms of per capita income, it ranks as fourth-highest in West Virginia.
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The Confederate-Union Veterans ' Monument in Morgantown, a zinc monument, was dedicated in 1907 on the Butler County Courthouse lawn.
There is a Howard Hanna Real Estate Office located on South Morgantown Street, which commands the majority of housing sales in the area.
Samuel Steel built a sawmill at Jenner Crossroads in 1817 ; John Shopwood opened a hotel in 1825, and Samuel Elder opened the first store in 1836 Other early industry in the township included a sawmill on Quemahoning Creek built about 1813 by Moses Fream and a small woolen mill, built in 1817 by William Dalley, enlarged by Owen and William Morgan later into a small settlement known as Morgantown.
The growth of downtown Morgantown limited the space available on the original campus ; therefore, the new site was located nearly two miles north on what had been farmland.
That year, his home town of Morgantown, West Virginia, changed the name of the street formerly known as South University Avenue ( U. S. Route 119 ) to Don Knotts Boulevard on " Don Knotts Day ".
Zackquill Morgan founded Morgantown, West Virginia in Monongalia County, where he died on New Year's Day in 1795 and was buried in the quiet country cemetery at Prickett's Fort, where many of his old friends and neighbors lay sleeping.
Despite the accounts of various historians, we still do not know when Zackquill Morgan settled on the site of Morgantown, nor indeed, who made the first settlement on that site.
Nicholas Decker, the first settler to establish a settlement in the vicinity of what is now Morgantown, on 29 April 1781, surveyed for Zackquill Morgan assignee of Isaac Lemasters, of land in Monongalia County, on Deckers Creek and the Monongahela River, including his settlement thereon in the year 1772, agreeable to and in part of a certificate for from the commissioners of adjusting claims to unpatented lands in the county of Monongalia — James Chew, assisted Mr. James Madison, surveyor.
Nicholas Decker was an heir of Garrett Decker, who was a member of the unfortunate Decker settlement of 1758 ; his settlement in 1766 at the mouth of Deckers Creek was certainly one of the earliest on the site of the present city of Morgantown.
Work on Interstate 79 extended south from Pennsylvania through Morgantown and Clarksburg to Charleston.
After nearly six decades as the only toll road in West Virginia, the West Virginia section of the Mon – Fayette Expressway opened on July 11, 2011 from near Morgantown to the Mason – Dixon Line.
* April 14, 1945 Pennsylvania Central Airlines DC-3 crashes on Coopers Rock Ridge near Morgantown, West Virginia killing 20 people ( all on board )
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