The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1909-09-08
POINT PLEASANT
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ling place, located as it is on a low
point of land made by the junction
of the Hanawha and Ohio Rivers,
with high hills in its rear and wooded
heights beyond the rivers. In the
times of high foods the main portion
of the town is inundated to the ex-
tent of four to six feet. Notwith-
standing this disadvantage, the town
is now very thrifty, with numerous
enterprises and a progressive popula-
ton of three thousand people. Its
hotels, business houses, and resi-
denees would due credit to towns
two or three times its size. The
people are proud of their town and
do not fail to speak good word in
its behalf to the stranger within its
gates. 1t is reached not only by two
railroad systems, hich give it direct
connection with the State capital and
the two rapidly growing towns of
Huntington and Parkersburg, but all
the steamboats, on the Ohio and
Great Kanawha Rivers land at its
wharf. What is more majestic than
big river steamer sweeping up to a
wharf with the grace of swan and
the dignity of a queen: In Point
Pleasant the gPeat. rivers bring to-
gether not only the wealth of their
waters, but the riches oftheir beauty;
and the people are gladdened with
scenes which never grow old or fail
to entertain.
Point Pleasant claims the distinc-
ton of being located on the battle
ground of the first struggles of the
Revolutionary War, as it took place
October 10, 1914. Gen. Andrew
Lewis in severe contest defeated a
band of Indians who were carrying
out in their attack tn. orders of their
British allies; and he. drove them
across the Ohio River. from which
they were not allowed to return.
Because of the effect of this battle
on the plans of the British, historians
are inclined to regard as valid the
claims of Point Pleasant. Not only
so, but the United States govern
ment has united with the State gov
ernment and made liberal appro-
priation to erect suitable monument
eighty feet high to the memory of
the men who fought in this battle in
the park which includes the battle
ground, and which has been bought
by the State government. The
foundation ofthe monument has been
built, and in a few months the COM
pleted shaft will be in place.
A recent writer has the following
to say of those who fought in this
battle:
Seven officers in the battle of
Point Pleasant ,ose to the rank of
general in the Revolutionary army;
SIX captains in that battle commanded
regiments on Continental establish
ment in the war for independence: !:
four officers in that battle led the at
tack on Gwynn's Island, in Chesa-
peake Bay, in July, l776, which re-
suited in the disIodgment of Lord
Dunmore, the late Governor, who
was thus driven from the shores of
Virginia never to return; one officer
in that battle was the most promin-
ent American officer in the battle of
Brandywine, where he was severely
wounded; another officer in that
battle led the advance at the storm
ing of Stony Point, one of the most
daring achievements of the Revolution,
still another officer in that battle won
lasting fame as the hero of King $
Mountain Hundreds of men in
that battle were afterwards on reyo-
lutionary fields, and many Of them
witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis
to the united armies of Tie United
States and France at the close of
that struggle at Yorktown. Indeed,
it is a matter of history that these
Point Pleasant men were on nearly