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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.
Jackson's Mill is a former grist mill in Lewis County, West Virginia, near the city of Weston.The mill, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, is now the centerpiece of a state-owned museum property.
Weston was founded in 1818 as Preston; the name was changed to Fleshersville soon after, and then to Weston in 1819. [6] The city was incorporated in 1846. [7]Weston is the site of the former Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, a psychiatric hospital and National Historic Landmark which has been mostly vacant since its closure in 1994 upon its replacement by the nearby William R. Sharpe Jr. Hospital.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lewis County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Jackson's Mill State 4-H Camp Historic District, also known as West Virginia University Jackson's Mill, is a historic 4-H camp and national historic district near Weston, Lewis County, West Virginia. The district includes 23 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, 4 contributing structures, and 2 contributing objects.
Jane Lew is located at (39.109203, -80.407624), [6] along Hackers Creek in northern Lewis County [ 7 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 0.25 square miles (0.65 km 2 ), of which 0.24 square miles (0.62 km 2 ) is land and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2 ) is water.
Withers was said to have been the largest slave-owner in Lewis County, owning ten or twelve slaves. [7] Notwithstanding this, he was a Unionist during the Civil War and served as delegate to the First Wheeling Convention of May 1861. Withers fathered a number of children by his mulatto slave Lucy Taylor after his wife died.
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]