Point Pleasant

  • Ashworth shanty boat trip

    Ashworth shanty boat trip

    Nancy E Buell shared this story with us about her family: Lewis Harrison Ashworth and wife Georgetta sold their farm in West Virginia and bought a houseboat.  It was tied up near Charleston [West Virginia on the Kanawha River].  They waited for the spring floods to come and floated downriver to near Point Pleasant [at the confluence of…

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