"Settled about 1753 by Robert Files and David Tygart. Files' family was massacred near by. Site of Westfall's Fort, 1774. In Mt. Iser Cemetery are the Union trenches and graves of Confederate soldiers killed in Battle of Rich Mountain."

Beverly Historic Marker, Randolph County, W. Va.

Identifier:: 030869
Collection Number:: A&M 927, Summers Family Papers
Title:: Beverly Historic Marker, Randolph County, W. Va.
Date:: 1952
Description:: "Settled about 1753 by Robert Files and David Tygart. Files' family was massacred near by. Site of Westfall's Fort, 1774. In Mt. Iser Cemetery are the Union trenches and graves of Confederate soldiers killed in Battle of Rich Mountain."
Subjects:: Rich Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1861., Historical markers--West Virginia--Beverly., Historic Markers.
Personal Names:: Tygart, David., Files, Robert.
Corporate Names:: Mount Iser Cemetery (Beverly, W. Va.)
Geographic:: Beverly (W. Va.), Fort Westfall (W. Va.)
Acquisition Method:: Acquired
Medium:: print
Projects:: West Virginia History OnView