On the road to Point Pleasant WVA.

St Rt 56 – south of Circleville – “In an effort to maintain peace with Native Americans, the British imposed the Proclamation Line of 1763, which prohibited colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. Some settlers did not recognize British authority and continued to move westward. Virginia Governor Lord Dunmore, realizing that peace with Native Americans was improbable, amassed troops and headed west, camping at the Hocking River to meet with a unit commanded by Andrew Lewis. En route, Lewis's troops were attacked on October 10, 1774 at present day Point Pleasant, West Virginia, by a force of Delaware and Shawnee led by Cornstalk. After intense battle, the Native Americans retreated north across the Ohio River to villages on the Pickaway Plains. At this point, Dunmore headed to the Shawnee villages to negotiate peace and set up camp at this site. The resulting Treaty of Camp Charlotte ended "Dunmore's War" and stipulated that the Indians give up rights to land south of the Ohio River and allow boats to travel on the river undisturbed. The Treaty of Camp Charlotte established the Ohio River as Virginia's boundary line, aiding in the settlement of Kentucky.”

We hiked a bit at Hocking Hills State Park and saw Ash Cave.

Cox Covered Bridge on ST RT 93 south of ST RT 56 in Vinton County

Ohio University Gateway in Athens
On February 15, 1872, Dr. Huntington, a young family practitioner of the small Ohio River city of Pomeroy, Ohio, traveled over the bleak countryside five miles to the larger town of Middleport, Ohio to address the local medical society, composed of physicians of sparsely populated Meigs and Mason Counties. His brief, uniformly anecdotal and entirely unreferrenced address was put eight weeks later in the Medical and Surgical Reporter of Philadelphia . This has become one of the classical descriptions of neurological disease, later known as Huntington’s cholera.
The Ohio River, looking at WVA from Pomeroy.

Historical Markers from Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

The Silver Bridge was an eyebar chain suspension bridge built in 1928 and was named for the color of its aluminum paint. The bridge connected Point Pleasant, West Virginia and Gallipolis,Ohio over the Ohio River. On December 15, 1967, the Silver Bridge collapsed while it was choked with rush hour traffic, resulting in the deaths of 46 people.