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The nearby highway is part of route traversing W. Va. from Lewisburg to Point Pleasant memorialized by the state to commemorate the march of the American Colonial army of 1,200 men led by Andrew & 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 & Kanawha rivers, October 10, 1774.
West Virginia Department of Culture and History

Dunbar, WV 25 at Shawnee Park, 1.7 miles west of Dunbar Exit Kanawha County West Virginia

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