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In June 1750, Colonel Charles Lewis, the younger brother of General Andrew Lewis, acquired 950 acres on the Cowpasture River. Nearby, Fort Lewis, a small stockade initially under the command of then Captain Charles Lewis, had been constructed by 1756 to guard the strategic pass of Shenandoah Mountain. It was one in a series of forts authorized by the General Assembly on the frontier to protect settlers during the French and Indian War, and it existed at least until the end of the war in 1763. The Lewis manor house stands close to where the fort once stood.
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