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High Gate (also known as the James Edwin Watson House or Ross Funeral Home) [1] is an historic residence located at 800 Fairmont Avenue in Fairmont, West Virginia.. The High Gate house and carriage house were built ca. 1910-1913 by Fairmont industrialist and financier, James E. Watson, son of the "father of the West Virginia coal industry," James O. Watson.
He died at his daughter's home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on March 24, 1899. [1] Three years later, his remains were relocated to Woodlawn Cemetery in Fairmont, West Virginia. They reside next to those of his wife Julia and three of their four children. [8] A monument to Francis Pierpont was installed in Wheeling on West Virginia Day in 2015. [7]
Fairmont is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 18,313 at the 2020 census , making it the eighth-most populous city in the state. [ 3 ] [ 5 ] It is the principal city of the Fairmont micropolitan area , which includes all of Marion County in North Central West Virginia and had a ...
Grace Golden Clayton was born in Barboursville, West Virginia to Rev. Martin Fletcher Golden and Maria L Scott Golden. She was the youngest of eight children. She was the youngest of eight children. Clayton's father was a traveling minister, serving the Marion Circuit throughout 1878; before being appointed elder of the Methodist Episcopal ...
James Otis Watson is considered the father of the bituminous coal industry in north central West Virginia. He and Pierpont owned the first coal mine to be commercially viable following the completion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad linking Fairmont with the eastern seaboard markets. One of his daughters married Aretas B. Fleming.
Fairmont Downtown Historic District is a national historic district located at Fairmont, Marion County, West Virginia. The district includes 97 contributing buildings and two contributing structures in Fairmont's central business district. They are in a variety of late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural styles.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
The George Pinkney Morgan House is a brick farmhouse in the Greek Revival style erected c. 1857–60. The two-story, red brick structure contains 10 rooms and as is typical of many houses built in the 19" century, incorporates a rear ell housing the kitchen, backstairs, and a servants bedroom or storeroom.