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The nearby highway follows part of the route across W. Va. from Lewisburg to Point Pleasant taken by an American Colonial army of 1,200 men led by Andrew and Charles Lewis. After a month's march, this army 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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