Located along the Midland Trail outside Lewisburg WV, this marker points out some of the earliest frontier history and settlement of the vicinity. There is no date or number on the marker. It was erected by the West Virginia Department of Culture and History.
The front of the marker reads, "Before the Fort Donnally attack, settlements had been warned by Phillip Hammond and John Pryor, scouts at Point Pleasant, who, made-up as Indians by Nonhelema, the sister of Cornstalk, passed and outran the Indians."
And the reverse, "Built by Andrew Donnally a few miles north about 1771. Attack on this fort by 200 Indians in 1778 was second most important frontier engagement in the State. The fort was relieved by force under Colonel John Stuart."
There is room to stop to read the marker.
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