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Main St. between 1st & 11th and Viand St. between 8th & 10th, Point Pleasant, West Virginia: Coordinates: Area: 36.7 acres (14.9 ha) Built: 1749: Architectural style: Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Late Victorian, Federal: NRHP reference No. 85001465 [1] Added to NRHP
The Point Pleasant Register was a newspaper serving Point Pleasant and Mason County, West Virginia from 1862 to 2022. Circulation was limited to Mason County and nearby areas. The newspaper was founded by George W. Tippett as The Weekly Register in 1862, [ 2 ] many years before becoming a daily publication, known as The Point Pleasant Register ...
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.
Point Pleasant was the final home of Confederate Brigadier-General John McCausland, the next-to-last Confederate General to die. He died at his farm at Grimm's Landing on January 23, 1927, and is buried in nearby Henderson. Karl Probst, born in Point Pleasant, was an automotive engineer credited in 1940 with the design of the Jeep.
On the eastern side of the district, the bottom land is occupied by the city of Point Pleasant, the district's only incorporated community, and the county seat. [5] Besides Point Pleasant, the only other community in Lewis District is the unincorporated village of Hickory, the site of Hickory Chapel, and a post office from 1874 to 1906. [6]
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The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Pages in category "People from Point Pleasant, West Virginia" The following 27 pages are in this category, out of 27 total.
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.