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The town of Point Pleasant was built on the site of the original fort, and so the rebuilt fort was located nearby. Point Pleasant is a city in and the county seat of Mason County, West Virginia, United States, [6] at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The population was 4,101 at the 2020 census. [3]
Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,453. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. [2] The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, [3] delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
West Virginia Ordnance Works (WVOW) was a United States Army ammunition manufacturing facility constructed and operated during World War II. It was located north of Point Pleasant, West Virginia in Mason County encompassing 8,323 acres (33.68 km 2). The $45 million plant employed 3500 at its peak and operated from 1942 to 1945. [1]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mason County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
The designation and inspection protocols for fracture critical bridges were developed following the failure of an eyebar at the Silver Bridge at Point Pleasant, West Virginia, which precipitated the bridge's collapse into the Ohio River in 1967, resulting in 46 deaths.
An adaptive use project in the UK, changing stables into offices, required cutting the beam supporting a floor down its entire length, and then inserting a similarly sized steel plate. The resulting flitched beam was then secured with resin and bolts, preserving appearance while providing strength.
Fort Randolph was an American Revolutionary War fort which stood at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, on the site of present-day Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States. Built in 1776 on the site of an earlier fort from Dunmore's War , Fort Randolph is best remembered as the place where the famous Shawnee Chief Cornstalk was ...
The Ohio River Subdivision is a specific portion of a railroad system that runs along the Ohio River, owned and operated by CSX Transportation in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The line runs from Wheeling southwesterly along the east (left) shore of the Ohio River to Huntington [2] along a former Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line. [3] [4]