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Historical Highway MarkersFort LewisD-24
Col. Charles Lewis, younger brother of Gen. Andrew Lewis, acquired 950 acres of land on the Cowpasture River in June 1750. Nearby, Fort Lewis, a small stockade, initially under the command of then Capt. Charles Lewis, was constructed by 1756 to guard the strategic pass of the Shenandoah Mountain. It was one in a series of forts authorized by the General Assembly to be built on the frontier to protect settlers during the French and Indian War. Fort Lewis existed at least until the end of the war in 1763. The Lewis manor house is located close to where the fort once stood.
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References/Bibliographic Citation: Hugh S. Gwin, “The Pioneer Lewises of Bath,” in The Bicentennial History of Bath County, Virginia 1791-1991 (Marceline, Mo.: Heritage House Printing, 1991), 14-15; Louis K. Koontz, The Virginia Frontier, 1754-1763 in the series John Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science (Baltimore: The John Hopkins Press, 1925), 127-128; Oren F. Morton, Annals of Bath County Virginia (Staunton, Va.: McClure Co., Inc, 1917), 14, 15, 23, 92. |