Mason

In 1772, Washington patented 10,990 acres along the Great Kanawha River.

Lakin, WV

Samuel and Pamela Clemens, grandparents of "Mark Twain", settled here in 1803.

The nearby highway is part of route traversing W. Va.

Daniel Boone, noted scout and Indian fighter, operated trading post here, 1790.

Point Pleasant, WV

Born 1803 in Palatine, Polsley was a noted lawyer and publisher of the Western Transcript in Wellsburg until he moved to Mason County in...

Grave and home (1/2 mile W.) of Dr. Jesse Bennett, whose Caesarean operation on his wife, 1794, was the first in America.

Point Pleasant, WV

In Point Pleasant Cemetery are graves of John Roush and John Roseberry, Revolutionary War soldiers, Maj. Andrew Waggener, hero of Craney...

Near here stood the blockhouse built by Captain Isaac Robinson in 1794.

On pinnacle (300 feet E.) overlooking his boyhood home is the grave of Gen. John McCausland, 1836-1927.

Home of General John McCausland, 1836-1927, one of the last officers of the general staff of the Confederate Army.

From the Kanawha's mouth in May, 1778, George Rogers Clark set out to attack the British at Vincennes and Kaskaskia.

The Reverend William George and sixteen charter members organized the Harmony Baptist Church in 1812.

Born 1805 in Ireland but moved to Mason County as a child.

Point Pleasant, WV

Born May 6, 1821, Whaley served as a Union recruiter and colonel in the 9th WV Volunteer Infantry.

Established in 1919 by an act of the Legislature.

Point Pleasant, WV

Livia Nye Simpson, born 1 March 1862, was among youngest female publishers in US with purchase of the Point Pleasant State Gazette in 1888.

Formed, 1804, from Kanawha.

Formed, 1804, from Kanawha.

Mason City, WV

Formed, 1804, from Kanawha.

This is one of the larger burial mounds in the State.

This is part of the 16,000 acre tract surveyed by order of Washington for General Hugh Mercer.

Here Oct. 10, 1774, General Andrew Lewis and a thousand Virginia riflemen defeated the federated Indian tribes led by Cornstalk.

Fort Blair was built here in 1774 and later Fort Randolph, the center of Indian activities, 1777-1778.

Point Pleasant, WV

Constructed in 1928, connected Point Pleasant and Kanauga, OH.

Born 1755, died 1835.

Mason City, WV

Educator and historian born near West Columbia, July 6, 1848; died in Mason City, December 5, 1912; was buried in Point Pleasant.

Point Pleasant, WV

"The Mountain State"--western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia until June 20, 1863.