Chapter 8 Part 2 Important People and Places first permanent European settler in West Virginia Morgan Morgan German settlers from Pennsylvania (Deutsch) Pennsylvania Dutch Virginia granted him 10,000 acres in the Shenandoah Valley Isaac Van Meter German from New York, settled near Winchester Joist Hite surveyor, family owned part of Greenbrier Valley Andrew Lewis todays location of where Morgan Morgan built a cabin Martinsburg location of the first church west of the Alleghenies Bunker Hill todays location of Zackquill Morgans settlement, Morgans Fort Morgantown near Joist Hites settlement Winchester Rhine River area of Europe, the scene of many wars Palatinate settlement of Thomas Shepherd Shepherdstown many Scots-Irish settled here, southeast Greenbrier Valley first settlement west of the Allegheny Divide Drapers Meadow named for the settler that had lived in a hollow trunk of a sycamore tree Sewell Mountain town named for the settler who broke a friendship with Stephen Sewell over religious differences Marlinton present town where David Tygart and Robert Files settled Beverly named for the settler David Tygart Tygart Valley named for the settler Robert Files Files Creek