FIRST: American Legion Post - Wheeling, West Virginia
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BruceS
N 40° 04.044 W 080° 43.355
17T E 523656 N 4435274
Location where the organization which became the first American Legion Post was organized in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Waymark Code: WMJCAK
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 10/28/2013
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Text of plaque:
Wheeling Post No. 1
Oldest Post Of
The American Legion
At a meeting called in this building by Joseph H. Reass on March 1, 1919. Was effected the first permanent organization of Veterans of the World War which later became Wheeling Post No. 1 of the American Legion. At that meeting the following officers were elected:
P.J. McGinley George S. Houston
Joseph H. Reass Thomas McK. Cummins
Edmund Lee Jones
Erected by Wheeling Post No. 1 at Department
Convention, September, 1940. T.Y. Beckett, Past Commander, Chairman
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