Museums, parks and monuments are at the sites of many significant events during Lord Dunmore’s War. A marker in the rest area on Ohio Route 113 near Yellow Creek, Ohio, commemorates Logan’s camp. Another, on W. Va. Route 2 near Waterford Park, is near the site of Baker’s trading post. The site of Fort Dunmore is now the Fort Pitt Museum in Point State Park in Pittsburgh. A marker on Main Street between 10th and 11th streets in Wheeling, W. Va., is at the site of Fort Fincastle, renamed Fort Henry during the Revolutionary War. Wakatomica was in Dresden, Ohio, and the battle of that name 6 miles to the south, east of the intersection of Ohio Route 666 and Memory Road.
Andrew Lewis’s Fort Lewis was in Salem, Va., where the Salem Museum and Historical Society, at 801 E. Main Street, has exhibits on Lewis’s life. Camp Union was in downtown Lewisburg, W. Va. Markers tracing the course of Lewis’s march are at the intersections of US Route 60 and Brushy Ridge Rd. near Alta; US Route 60 and W. Va. Route 14, about 5 miles southeast of Lookout; US Route 60 and County Road 81 in Cedar Grove; and US Route 60 and Veazy Street in Charleston; on Fairlawn Ave at Shawnee Regional Park in Institute; and in a park beside W. Va. Route 2, just south of Hometown.
The site of the battle is now Point Pleasant, W. Va, where Tu-Endie-Wei/Point Pleasant Battlefield State Park occupies an area of the Virginia camp. There visitors will find the Mansion House Museum, the graves of Cornstalk and Mad Ann Bailey, and many monuments. The nearby River Walk leads up the Ohio past murals depicting scenes from the battle. A reproduction of Fort (Randolph is in Krodel Park.
The battlefield today. (Author’s map)
Fort Gower was at the end of Pearl Street in Hockingport, Ohio. A monument in Nelsonville, at the intersection of US Route 33, and Pine Grove Drive, is near the site of Dunmore’s 4th Ohio Camp. Another near Leistville, on Ohio Route 56, half a mile north of Ohio Route 159, is at the site of Camp Charlotte. A marker 4 miles south of Circleville, on Emerson Road, nearly a half-mile east of US Route 23, is near the location of Grenadier Squaw’s Town, Cornstalk’s Town and the Burning Ground. The site of Logan’s speech is now Logan Elm State Memorial, a park on Ohio Route 361, a mile east of US Route 23, where many monuments commemorate figures in Lord Dunmore’s War. Seekunk was in downtown Columbus, in Dodge Park on Sullivant Avenue.
In 1776, militiamen led by Capt. Matthew Arbuckle built Fort Randolph to replace Fort Blair. On May 16–18, 1778, Wyandots besieged the stronghold, which has been reconstructed in Point Pleasant. (Photograph by Ed Lowe)