WV-050 Birthplace of Rivers

Marker text: BIRTHPLACE OF RIVERS

Here mountain waters divide into many rivers. Greenbrier, Gauley and Elk start south and west to the Kanawha; the Jackson east to the James; north goes the South Branch to the Potomac, and the Cheat and Tygart to the Monongahela.

West Virginia Department of Archives and History, 1973.

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Location: Rt. 28 and Rt. 112, Circleville, Pendleton County, West Virginia

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