WV-096 Parsons

Marker text: PARSONS
John Crouch, pioneer settler, established "tomahawk rights" here in 1766, but the town was not incorporated until 1893. Here Shavers Fork and Blackwater unite to form the Cheat River. Hu Maxwell, the historian, lived near.

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Location: US 219, in Parsons at junction with WV 72 , Tucker County, West Virginia

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