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A veteran of the Battle of Point Pleasant (1774), he surveyed and settled the Greenbrier Valley and is known locally as the "Father of Greenbrier County". Owing to his Memoir of Indian Wars and Other Occurrences, written in 1799, he has been called "the most important chronicler of pioneer history in southern West Virginia". [1]
Greenbrier is a community located in the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States. It is made up of two sections, Greenbrier East and Greenbrier West. Greenbrier Parkway, a major road in Greenbrier, is the commercial hub of Chesapeake. Shopping centers line this major road, including Greenbrier Mall. Another major road, Volvo ...
Union pickets at the Greenbrier River Bridge were driven away, captured, or killed by a mounted portion of the 8th Virginia Cavalry. [ Note 12 ] Two artillery pieces were left on a hill near the bridge as part of a rear guard, and the main portion of Heth's force continued to Lewisburg led by a small number of mounted cavalry. [ 76 ]
Mason Mathews (December 15, 1803 – September 16, 1878) was an American merchant and politician in the U.S. State of Virginia (present-day West Virginia).He served in the Virginia House of Delegates, representing Greenbrier County from 1859–1865 as a Whig.
Lewisburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 112 contributing buildings and are representative of the development and evolution of Lewisburg, over a period of more than two centuries (1763-1977).
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 Virginia's frontier. The ...
In 1769, Major William Renick from Augusta County, Virginia, settled on an entry of 1,000 acres (400 ha) in the northern area of Greenbrier County, an area 16 miles (26 km) north of Lewisburg known as Falling Spring. Spring Creek Presbyterian Church was established in 1783. The first pastor was Rev. John McCue.
From 1890 to 1894, Dr. Telford pastored the Old Stone Church (Lewisburg, West Virginia), and then later became the President of the Lewisburg Female Institute, later renamed the Greenbrier College for Women. Telford later sold the house to Greenbrier College and it became the house for the Presidents of Greenbrier College. [6]