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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]
Pleasants Power Station. / 39.36694°N 81.29472°W / 39.36694; -81.29472. Pleasants Power Station is a 1.3-gigawatt (1,300 MW) coal power plant located near Belmont, West Virginia in Pleasants County, West Virginia. The plant is owned by Energy Harbor and began operations in 1979.
The Willow Island disaster was the collapse of a cooling tower under construction at the Pleasants Power Station at Willow Island, West Virginia, on April 27, 1978. Fifty-one construction workers were killed. It is thought to be the deadliest construction accident in U.S. history.
Point Pleasant Historic District is a national historic district located at Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia. The district includes 93 contributing buildings and one contributing site in Point Pleasant's central business district and surrounding residential areas. They are in a variety of late 19th- and early 20th-century ...
Tu-Endie-Wei State Park is located at the confluence of the Kanawha River and the Ohio River in downtown Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The park commemorates the Battle of Point Pleasant, fought between the settler militia of Virginia and the forces of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk on October 10, 1774. The militia victory by the settlers weakened the ...
79002590 [1] Added to NRHP. August 29, 1979. Lewis-Capehart-Roseberry House, also known as "Roseberry," is a historic home located at Point Pleasant, Mason County, West Virginia. It was built about 1820, and is a spacious two story, double-pile, brick residence with a gable roof in the Federal -style. It features sandstone lintels and sills. [2]
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.
masoncountywv .gov. 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. Before the Civil War, the county was in the ...