Greenbrier County History Pageant Reflects Early Frontier
A historical pageant celebrates Greenbrier county's 160th birthday, tracing a frontier arc from prewhite settlements to 18th century clashes with Shawnee groups along the Kanawha. It recalls early explorers Col Abraham Wood, Thomas Batts, Robert Fallar, and settlers like Col John Stuart shaping homesteads, trade, and defense amid Indian attacks and relocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenbrier County
Greenbrier
Ohio River
Abraham Wood
Thomas Batts
Robert Fallar
Fort Donnally and Early Settlers on Greenbrier Watershed
The text lists pioneers and settlers in the Greenbrier area, naming Clanachan, Thomas Renick, Thomas Williams, James Jordan, John Patton, Samuel McKinney, David Keeney, and William Black. It notes William McClung clearing Meadow River land, Fort Donnally built in 1773, and Andrew Donnally establishing a fort ten miles northwest of Lewisburg. It mentions land patented by McClung and early surveys for James Callison.
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Thomas Williams
Ronceverte
Cecil Clay
A. E. White
James River
Kanawha
Pioneers Struggle Over Faith and Frontier Growth
The narrative recounts early Greenbrier settlers around 2749 at Martin site, a religious dispute leading Sewell to live apart, and lists leaders like Cook, Lockhart, Cutlip, Connell, Clendennin, and Daugherty. It covers forts Donnally and Union, the Battle of Point Pleasant, and growth including mills, gas springs, and county formation in 1777 with Greenbrier's bounds and early courts. It notes Lewisburg as county seat on the James River and Kanawha Turnpike, and mentions figures Price and Holt as Virginia and West Virginia leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warily Betuere
James Burnsides
John Fulton
Archibald Hopkins
John Trotter
Thomas Berry
Archibald Clendeain
Nap Gregory
William Ek
George Lea
Mathias Yoakum
William Mann
James McCoy
Alexander Crockett
William Blair
Richard Madison
Thomas Campbell
Kanawha
Greenbrier
Frederick Sea
Muddy Creek
Archibald Clendemin, Jr
Clendennin
Iseph Marlin
Steven Sewell
Marlin
Sewell
Ayne
More Tree
Thomas Cook
Patrick Lockhart
George Cutlip
James Connall
Charles Clendennin
William Jameson
Michael Daugherty
James Kincaid
Peter Vanbibber
Daniel Workman
Joseph McClung
George Washington
Kanawha River
Donnally
Fort Springs
Andrew Lewis
Lewisburg
Lord Dunmore
Ohio
Point Pleasant
Progress Bazon
Blue Grass
Greendrier Valley
John Stuart
Frankfort
Virginia
Botetourt
Augusta
Sweet Springs
Peter's Mountain
Montgomery County
New River
Samuel Brown
John Anderson
William Hutchinson
John Henderson
William Rouge
John Archer
James River
Old Fort Union
Lewis
West
James Hubert Price
Organ Cave
Greenbrier County
Homer A. Holt
West Virginia
Tradition of Graciousness Inherited by Girls' School
Greenbrier college for women, dating to 1812 as Lewisburg Academy, blends a long lineage of disciplined learning with a campus famed for fireproof buildings and classic grounds. Notable figures include Rev. John McElhenny and Prof Virgil L. Lewis, linking the school to regional history.
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Greenbrier College
Lewisburg
South
Greenbrier College For Women
Lewisburg Academy
John McEljhenny
Gres_urier
Kanawha
McElhenny
Virgil L. Lewis
Lewisburg Female Institute
Greenbrier Hall
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Forboden
Cornstalk
Alleghany Mountains
Fauquier
Forbidden Country
Col
James Hughert
John McCoy
Lawrence Murphy
Hugh Gillispie
William Lewis
Hugh Johnson
Robert Mc
Grads
White Sulphur High School
Progressive
Laird
Ad Ita
Laird’s
Charleston
Hemler
Laird's
Inter-Communications
Laird Office ‘Equipment Co
Pisebee
Wilmer T. Halstead
L. C. Smith
Corona Typewriters
Hamilton
A. B
Dick—Edison
Douglas
Holton—Remler
Carnegie Hall
Virginia Supreme Court
Cei
Dr. French
W. Thompson
Samuel BH. Austin
George P. Alderson
D. G. Preston
M. B
John Laing
Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
Greensaier
Maple and
Main Ronceverte
W. VA
Grebpnbrier
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