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Nov. 22 at the Lewis County Mall, 151 NE Hampe Way, Chehalis; 5 p.m. A limited number of free turkeys, backpacks and other prizes will be given away during this annual event by the Centralia ...
Nov. 3—Between now and the deadline for the county's comprehensive plan update in June of 2025, residents in unincorporated parts of Lewis County have a once-in-a-decade opportunity to share ...
Lewis County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,033. [1] Its county seat is Weston. [2] The county was formed in 1816 from Harrison County [3] and named for Col. Charles Lewis (1733–1774), a Virginian killed in the Battle of Point Pleasant.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Its name reflects its builder, Jonathan M. Bennett, who represented Lewis County in the Virginia General Assembly and served as state auditor before the American Civil War. Bennett was a prominent local lawyer and businessman, who was allowed to hold office in West Virginia following its adoption of a new state Constitution in 1872. [2]
Lightburn is an unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States. Its post office [2] is closed. The community was named in honor of Union Army general Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn. [3]
Crawford is an unincorporated community in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States. Crawford is 11.5 miles (18.5 km) south-southeast of Weston. Crawford had a post office, which closed on January 21, 1989; it still has its own ZIP code, 26343. [2] [3] The community was named in honor of a pioneer settler. [4]
The West Virginia Museum of American Glass is located in Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia, United States.It was formed in 1993 for charitable, educational and scientific purposes to discover, procure, publish and preserve whatever may relate to the glass industry in West Virginia, the United States of America, and where ever else glass has been manufactured. [1]