the outcome, for several decades, Virginia and West Virginia disputed the new state's share of the Virginia government's debt. The issue was finally settled in 1915, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that West Virginia owed Virginia $12,393,929.50. The final installment of this sum was paid off in 1939. He was interred in the family mausoleum in Blandford Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia. His widow was interred alongside him. The mausoleum is identified by his well-known monogram, an initial "M" centered on a star inside a shield. Their first home in Petersburg, originally occupied by John Dodson, Petersburg's mayor in 1851–2, was on South Sycamore Street. That structure is now part of the Petersburg Public Library. In 1874, they acquired and greatly enlarged a home on South Market Street and it was their primary residence thereafter. Virginia State University, which he helped found as a normal school, is a major community presence nearby. A large portion of U.S. Highway 460 in eastern Virginia (between Petersburg and Suffolk) parallels the 52-mile (84 km) tangent railroad tracks that Mahone had engineered, passing through some of the towns that the two are believed to have named. Several sections of the road are labeled "General Mahone Boulevard" and "General Mahone Highway" in his honor. The Route 35 overpass of Route 58 in his native Southampton County, Virginia is named "The General William Mahone Memorial Bridge." A monument to Mahone's Brigade is located on the Gettysburg Battlefield. The site of the Battle of the Crater is a major feature of the National Park Service's Petersburg National Battlefield Park. In 1927, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected an imposing monument to his memory. It stands on the preserved Crater Battlefield, a short distance from the Crater itself. The monument states: See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) Notes References Evans, Clement A., Confederate Military History, Vol. III (biography of William Mahone)', 1899. Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . Striplin, E. F. Pat., The Norfolk & Western: a history Norfolk and Western Railway Co., 1981, . Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . External links Official Website for Mahone's Tavern & Museum including the History of William Mahone Map of Norfolk & Petersburg Rail Road, issued by William Mahone The New Method