Location & Maps

 

Rich Mountain Battlefield
is several miles west of Beverly, West Virginia.

Beverly is just south of Elkins on US Route 219/250.

 

 


Elkins is a small city in the Appalachian highlands of east-central West Virginia. West Virginia is an inland state in the eastern, mid-Atlantic United States.
From Beverly, turn west off of U.S. Route 219\250 onto
Rich Mountain Road (red dashed line)
to reach the battlefield.
This historical map shows the area of the Rich Mountain Battle.

Now the largest city in Randolph County, Elkins was known as "Leadsville" in 1861. At the time, it was little more that a cluster of small farmhouses and outbuildings.

Beverly was the social center of the region, from early National times.