Point Pleasant WV

Point Pleasant West Virginia

Point Pleasant is a sleepy-eyed small city in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the convergence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The population was 4,637 at the last 2000 census. It's the county seat of Mason County and the chief city of the Point Pleasant.   

Point Pleasant is most notable these days for a series of local legends focused on the 1967 collapse of the Silver Bridge, which killed forty-six local city folks. According to the legends, a huge moth-like man was come across by numerous Point Pleasant occupants in the calendar weeks leading up to the tragedy. The mothman beast is alleged to have foreseen the crash. This legend and tale, is the reference for the book and film, "The Mothman Prophecies". 

Point Pleasant is also notable for the Oct 10, 1774, Battle of Point Pleasant, in which Virginia militiamen led by Colonel Andrew Lewis overcame Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his alliance of Shawnee and Mingo warriors. The event is observed in Point Pleasant as the first battle of the American Revolutionary War, a distinction made formal by an act of Congress in 1910, though the battle is actually the largest and only confrontation of Lord Dunmore's War.

It was the final home of Confederate Brigadier-General John McCausland, the next-to-last Confederate General to die. He passed away at his farm at Grimm's Landing on Jan 23, 1927, and is entombed in nearby Henderson , West Virginia. Point Pleasant is located at 38°51′27″N, 82°7′43″W