Monongalia County

By jwarner226

  • The First Homestead

    Pompey Leggit and his wife Jenny Duvall Leggit, homesteaded at Rivesville in present-day Marion County in 1694.

  • The Leggitt Family Moves Around

    Leggit family moved on to Philippi in present-day Barbour County by 1704.

  • The County Seat

    Morgantown, the county seat, was originally settled by Thomas Decker, who led a group of settlers to Decker's Creek, in the present site of Morgantown, during the fall of 1758.

  • Monongalia County's First Trading Post

    The Leggit's sons, Thomas and George Leggit, established a trading post at Lowsville in 1766.

  • Birth of Monongalia County

    Monongalia County was created from the District of West Augusta of Augusta County, VA.

  • How Morgantown Became the County Seat

    1779 - The first county seat was located at Mifflintown, near Rubles Mill in Georges Township, Fayette County, PA. When border disputes were settled, it was moved to what is now Morgantown.

  • Morgan Develops Morgantown

    Colonel Zackquill Morgan, son of Morgan Morgan, received a legal certificate for 400 acres of land in the Morgantown area in 1781.

  • The Birth of Western Pennsylvania

    The area that was the northwest corner of Monongalia became Washington County, PA in 1781, and Greene County, PA in 1796.

  • Morgantown

    Morgantown was incorporated on February 3, 1858.

  • West Virginia became a state.

  • West Virginia University

    West Virginia University, the state's land grant university, was established in Morgantown in 1867.