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Andrew & Charles Lewis March

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The nearby highway is part of a route across W.Va. from Lewisburg to Point Pleasant followed by the American Colonial army of 1,200 men led by Andrew and Charles Lewis. After a month's march, this force defeated a Shawnee Indian force led by Cornstalk at the Battle of Point Pleasant on the banks of the Ohio and Kanawha rivers on October 10, 1774.
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