Point Marion was named after the Rev. War hero Frances Marion. And it's a nice place to be FROM. M. Davies > Dallas, if you have a map of WV and PA you will see at the borderline of PA > and WV Route 119. I am one mile to the borderline. Morgantown, WV starts > right there. There is a panhandle as you can see on the map. I am in > Fayette County and live in Springhill Township. Point Marion is a boro. A > boro is smaller than a town. We have a town if you call it that. About 10 > stores. These people here does not want to expand. They had a chance to > build a shopping center. The seniors did not want that. They want a quiet > town. They are not getting that for all the crimes we have. We have 565 > people paying for water and they have amost the same amount of people with > no running water. They have outside toliet. Believe me I am a Hamptonian and > we do not have outside toliet there. > > My husband was borned and raised here. I met him at Fort Eustis, Va and I > was born and raised there and we moved here in 92 when he retired. I do not > know when this place was formed but I do know its late 1700. I have info on > his ancentors from back then. They were living here in Point Marion. Point > Marion was not on the map for a very long time till I complain. Its there > now. People depends on map to show where these places are and how to get > there.. The council agree. I do not know a whole lot about Point Marion for > they are really strange people. You know if I see someone knocking on your > door, I will come out in the open and stand there til they open the door or > they go away. That's a crime watch. But not here. They don't want it. They > are scare. This is about all I know about Point Marion. My sil has a book on > earlier times but I never did read it yet. If there is something you want me > to scan or know let me know and she will read up on it for you. > > Gloria Wertz of Point Marion, PA > Plumbers loves to tell their noisy neighbors to "pipe down." >