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Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park is located about 25 miles (40 km) north of the Lewisburg exit of I-64 on U.S. Highway 219 and about 15 miles (24 km) south of Marlinton on US 219. The park is also near Beartown State Park and Watoga State Park .
The battlefield site is preserved and administered by West Virginia as Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [ 131 ] [ 132 ] The park was dedicated in 1928, and is West Virginia's oldest state park. [ 133 ]
Droop Mountain, rising 3597 feet above sea level, is located southwest of Hillsboro, West Virginia, on U.S. Route 219. During the Civil War, it formed a barrier to north-south passage along the west bank of the Greenbrier River , blocking troop movements.
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails.
Droop is an unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States, in the Greenbrier River Valley [citation needed]. The community takes its name from nearby Droop Mountain. [1] The area lends its name to Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, site of West Virginia's last significant Civil War battle. [2]
The cemetery is the final resting place of 95 unknown Confederate soldiers from the Battles of Lewisburg (May 23, 1862) and Droop Mountain (November 6, 1863). They are buried in a three-foot-high mound shaped as a Christian cross. The cross measures 80 feet, 5 inches in length, with the "arm" extending 53 feet.
[e] One of these recommended sites became West Virginia's first state park, Droop Mountain Battlefield, also in Pocahontas County. [20] The park was acquired in 1928 and dedicated on July 4, 1929, to commemorate one of the largest battles in West Virginia during the American Civil War. [22]
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. [ 1 ] There are 24 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, 1 of which is a National Historic Landmark .