Panoramic View of Point Pleasant
by Lydia Holly
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Panoramic View of Point Pleasant
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Lydia Holly
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Photograph - Photography
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This is a panoramic view of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. I have been there several times and enjoyed the small city which sits at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. It is a town with many old buildings and has quite a history. George Washington, then known as Colonel Washington, visited the area in 1770 and is reported as saying that it was a pleasant point. As he traveled up the Kanawha River he reportedly said, “This country abounds in buffalo and wild game of all kinds as also in all kinds of wild fowl, there being in the bottoms a great many small grassy ponds or lakes which are full of swans, geese, and ducks of different kinds.” It would be only a few years later when The Battle of Point Pleasant would occur (October 10, 1774). It was led by Colonel Andrew Lewis and a thousand Virginia militiamen followed him to fight and defeat a force of Algonquin confederation of Shawnee and Mingo warriors led by Shawnee Chief Cornstalk. The battle lasted only a day, but is locally celebrated as the first battle of the American Revolutionary War. Oddly enough it was also commemorated as such by the US Senate in 1908, but this is highly disputed by most historians who view it as a part of Lord Dunmore’s War (1774). “The Battle of Point Pleasant forced Cornstalk to make peace in the Treaty of Camp Charlotte ceding to Virginia the Shawnee claims to all lands south of the Ohio River (today's states of Kentucky and West Virginia). The Shawnee were also obligated in the Treaty of Camp Charlotte to return all white captives and stop attacking barges of immigrants traveling on the Ohio River.” (Wikipedia). The monument which commemorates this battle stands at Tu-Endie-Wei State Park. The state park is at the center of the photograph, and it is indeed a pleasant place to enjoy the river(s). Point Pleasant is also the location of the Mothman sightings and the collapse of the Silver Bridge collapse which killed 46 people in 1967.
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April 25th, 2017
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