Historical Marker

Corricks Ford Battlefield

Historical marker location:
Parsons, West Virginia
( Marker is on Main Street (U.S. 219), on the right when traveling east.)

First to Fall. General Garnett at Corricks Ford.

The West Virginia University Mountaineers football team played the first ever college football night game in 1892. The game was played under electric lights at the Mountaineer Field in Morgantown.