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Lewisburg, comfortably situated in the Allegheny Mountains, is the county seat of Greenbrier County and one of the oldest towns in West Virginia.

Originally called Camp Union or Fort Savannah, the town was renamed Lewisburg to honor General Andrew Lewis. In 1774, Lewis assembled an army of frontier militia here, leading them to Point Pleasant to defeat the Shawnees under their great Chief Cornstalk in an epic battle.

Chartered in 1782 by the Virginia Assembly, the frontier town prospered as a way station on the James River and Kanawha Turnpike.

The Civil War Battle of Lewisburg was fought on May 23, 1862 between the Southern forces of Henry Heth and the Northern forces of George Crook, later famous as the captor of Geronimo and probably the best Indian-fighting general. Although Crook won this engagement, Lewisburg was a Southern outpost most of the Civil War.

With an unusually large number of old structures for such a small city; the old part of town is now a National Register Historic District.