Point Pleasant/Point Pleasant
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two-bit Joe
N 38° 50.669 W 082° 08.282
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Point Pleasant/Point Pleasant dual marker
Waymark Code: WM16MG
Location: West Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 02/02/2007
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Fort Blair was built here in 1774 and later Fort Randolph, the center of Indian activities, 1777-1778. Here are graves of "Mad Anne" Bailey, border scout, and Cornstalk, Shawnee chief, held hostage and killed here in 1777.
About 1771 was proposed as the capital of a new colony, "Vandalia." It was visited by early explorers: La Salle, 1669; Celeron, 1749; Gist, 1750; and Washington, 1770. Daniel Boone had a trading post here.
Marker Title: Point Pleasant/Point Pleasant
Marker Location: Point Pleasant Courthouse Square, WV 2 and 6th Street, 0.1 miles west of WV 62
County or Independent City: Mason
Marker Program Sponsor: West Virginia Historic Commission 1963
Marker Number: Not listed
Web Site: Not listed
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