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John Bly House, East side of County Road 857, just north of intersection with Quarry Run Road, Cheat Neck, Monongalia County, WV

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John Bly House, East side of County Road 857, just north of intersection with Quarry Run Road, Cheat Neck, Monongalia County, WV

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Summary

Significance: Constructed in the mid-nineteenth century, the John Bly House functioned as a stagecoach stop on the Morgantown and Uniontown Turnpike, a major link between Uniontown, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Morgantown, West Virginia, and the predecessor to C.R. 857. The house also served as a physician's home, a post office and a grocery store during the ironworks boom in the region.
Survey number: HABS WV-299
Building/structure dates: ca. 1852- ca. 1856 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1880- ca. 1900 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1930 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1940 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1990 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1920 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1975 Subsequent Work

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Date

1940
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Bly, John
Triplett, Nathaniel
Meyer, Lauren, transmitter
Shelley, Robert, photographer
KCI Technologies, Incorporated, delineator
Parker, Margaret Bishop, historian
Walls, Gail Lin, historian
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Location

Cheat Neck39.66979, -79.83227
Google Map of 39.6697916, -79.8322738
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Library of Congress
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