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1557242 [1] Lake Shawnee is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Lake Shawnee is located along U.S. Route 19, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) northwest of Princeton. Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, abandoned in 1966, occupies a desecrated native burial ground which was the site of the 1783 Mitchell Clay settler farm.
The Lake Shawnee Amusement Park is a defunct amusement park in Princeton, West Virginia, United States, located along Lake Shawnee. Opened in 1926, the park operated for 62 years before closing in 1988. [1][2] It received public attention for urban legends regarding the park being haunted due to accidental deaths supposedly caused by "cursed land".
Bluefield Green Book Historic District. Upload image. July 24, 2024. (#100010606) 1039-1047 Wayne Street. 37°16′25″N 81°12′59″W / 37.2736°N 81.2163°W / 37.2736; -81.2163 (Bluefield Green Book Historic District) Bluefield. 3. Bramwell Historic District.
Lake Shawnee may refer to: Lake Shawnee (New Jersey), a lake in Jefferson Township, New Jersey. Lake Shawnee (Kansas), a lake in Shawnee County, Kansas. Lake Shawnee, West Virginia, an unincorporated community. Lake Shawnee Amusement Park, a defunct amusement park in Princeton, West Virginia. Shawnee State Park (Pennsylvania), in Bedford County ...
The Shawnee (/ ʃɔːˈni / shaw-NEE) are a Native American people of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their language, Shawnee, is an Algonquian language. Their precontact homeland was likely centered in southern Ohio. [2] In the 17th century, they dispersed through Ohio, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. [4]
A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌʃɛnənˈdoʊə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States. The Valley is bounded to the east by the Blue Ridge Mountains, to the west by the eastern front of the Ridge-and-Valley ...
The Monongahela culture were an Iroquoian Native American cultural manifestation of Late Woodland peoples from AD 1050 to 1635 in present-day Western Pennsylvania, western Maryland, eastern Ohio, and West Virginia. [1] The culture was named by Mary Butler in 1939 for the Monongahela River, whose valley contains the majority of this culture's sites.
Killed: 2. 1 Shawnee prisoner. The Sandy Creek Expedition, also known as the Sandy Expedition or the Big Sandy Expedition,[1] (not to be confused with the Big Sandy Expedition of 1861) was a 1756 campaign by Virginia Regiment soldiers and Cherokee warriors into modern-day West Virginia against the Shawnee, who were raiding the British colony of ...