Pickering) of Rowlesburg; and West Virginia State Senator Harry P. Henshaw of Bunker Hill.

A dedication and unveiling ceremony was held for the monument on September 13, 1924, and Governor Morgan served as the principal speaker.

[7][8] The monument is situated within the unincorporated town of Bunker Hill in Berkeley County, West Virginia.

[9][11][12] Morgan's son David built a structure that became part of the Morgan-Gold House, which is 1.3 miles (2 km) west of the monument.

[5][16][17][18][19] The Mill Creek watershed and the land upon which the Morgan Morgan Monument is located were originally part of the Northern Neck Proprietary, a land grant that the exiled Charles II, King of England, awarded to seven of his supporters in 1649 during the English Interregnum.

[23] Charles II renewed the Northern Neck Proprietary grant in 1662, revised it in 1669, and again renewed the original grant favoring original grantee Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, and Henry Bennet, 1st Earl of Arlington, in 1672.

[24] In 1681 Bennet sold his share to Lord Colepeper, who received a new charter for the entire land grant from James II, King of England, in 1688.

[5][29][30][31] Morgan was believed to have been the first European to permanently settle in present-day West Virginia; however, German settlers may have inhabited Shepherdstown as early as 1727.

[29] Morgan became active in local governance, and was appointed a justice of the peace for Spotsylvania County by the Virginia Governor's Council on April 23, 1734.

[33] In January 1735 when the Orange County Court first convened, Morgan served on its new commission of the peace.

[5] Around 1740 he established present-day West Virginia's first Anglican Communion church along with settlers John Briscoe and Jacob Hite.

[5][12][37] This structure was rebuilt and restored with many of its original logs in 1976 as a West Virginia and Berkeley County Bicentennial Project.

[12][37] Known as the Morgan Cabin, it is located on the Cool Spring Farm property 2.74 miles (4 km) west of the monument and Bunker Hill.

[5][37] During its 1923 legislative session, the West Virginia Legislature passed a bill (introduced by West Virginia State Senator Harry P. Henshaw of Bunker Hill) appropriating $5,000 toward a monument memorializing Morgan Morgan in Bunker Hill.

Pickering) of Rowlesburg; and West Virginia State Senator Harry P. Henshaw of Bunker Hill.

[43][44] Governor Morgan, who appointed and oversaw the monument's commission, was the principal speaker at the ceremony and delivered its chief address.

[41] Charles James Faulkner, former United States Senator from West Virginia, gave a speech about Morgan and the early history of Berkeley County.

[43] Several hundred attendees were present at the dedication ceremony, mostly from the immediate area, Clarksburg, Fairmont, and nearby communities in Virginia.

[5] Its maintenance was the responsibility of Cacapon Resort State Park's supervisor James Ambrose and his subordinate personnel.

[41] A 10-inch (25 cm) medallion of the Seal of West Virginia is affixed to the top of the monument's main (western) façade, over two indented lines within the stone.

Granted to him by colonial Virginia patent, and in recognition of the sterling character of the said Morgan and family who by their efforts and example, were largely useful in the community of which he was the founder and had great influence for good upon the early history of the territory now constituting this State.