Qualla: Tu-Endie-Wei State Park https://qualla.com/tu-endie-wei-state-park en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/tu-endie-wei-state-park-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tu-Endie-Wei State Park https://qualla.com/tu-endie-wei-state-park Tu-Endie-Wei State Park: Introduction https://qualla.com/tu-endie-wei-state-park/ Photo credit NicoleBeckett, CC BY-SA 4.0. Tu-Endie-Wei is Wyandot for the point between two waters, and the park sits exactly there - a triangle of land where the Kanawha River pours into the Ohio in downtown Point Pleasant, West Virginia. The Wyandot people, allies of the Shawnee who fought here in 1774, gave the place a name in their own language. The park keeps that name. It marks the Battle of Point Pleasant, holds the grave of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk, and quietly invites the visitor to remember that the conflict commemorated here had two sides, and that the Wyandot phrase honors both the geography and a way of describing it that predates everything else in the park.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/tu-endie-wei-state-park-wp/dnvs-tu-endie-wei-state-park-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tu-Endie-Wei State Park: The Two Waters https://qualla.com/tu-endie-wei-state-park/ Photo credit Schaefer, Harry, Photographer (NARA record: 8464469), Public domain. The Kanawha River drains a substantial portion of central West Virginia, flowing northwest from the Allegheny Mountains until it meets the Ohio at Point Pleasant. The Ohio at this point is already a major river, draining western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and the northern panhan...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/tu-endie-wei-state-park-wp/dnvs-tu-endie-wei-state-park-the-two-waters.mp3 0:06 2 full Tu-Endie-Wei State Park: The Battle Monument https://qualla.com/tu-endie-wei-state-park/ Photo credit Kevin Myers at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0. An 84-foot granite obelisk rises from the center of the park, a Civil War-era monument to the Virginia militia who fought at the October 10, 1774 Battle of Point Pleasant. About 75 of Colonel Andrew Lewis's men died here. Their names are on the monument. The base of the obelisk i...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/tu-endie-wei-state-park-wp/dnvs-tu-endie-wei-state-park-the-battle-monument.mp3 0:06 3 full Tu-Endie-Wei State Park: Cornstalk's Grave https://qualla.com/tu-endie-wei-state-park/ Photo credit NicoleBeckett, CC BY-SA 4.0. On the opposite side of the park from the militia monument stands a much simpler marker - a granite slab and bronze plaque marking the grave of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk, murdered in his cell at nearby Fort Randolph in November 1777. Cornstalk's remains have been moved more than on...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/v/s/tu-endie-wei-state-park-wp/dnvs-tu-endie-wei-state-park-cornstalks-grave.mp3 0:06 4 full Tu-Endie-Wei State Park: The Mansion House and the First Battle Debate https://qualla.com/tu-endie-wei-state-park/ Photo credit NicoleBeckett, CC BY-SA 4.0. Also in the park stands the 1796 Mansion House, originally built as a frontier tavern and now operated as a historic house museum by the Colonel Charles Lewis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. Its rooms preserve early frontier furniture, period weapons, and doc...

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