Lewiston (Kanawha County, WV)

Welcome to Lewiston ...

Although we found mention of Lewiston during our research, we have little information about it.<1> Given the context of how Lewiston was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than a locale or some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it was a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists..

While we are confident that Lewiston was located in Kanawha County, we don't know its actual location within the county.

We've added Lewiston to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Lewiston - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Lewiston, please Contact Us.

When the people of Lewiston refer to themselves (known as a demonym), they frequently use Lewistonian<2>

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Lewiston might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

We believe that Lewiston would be found within the (304) and (681)<3> area codes.

Communities Also Named Lewiston ...

Using our Gazetteer, we have found that there are 30 communities that are also named Lewiston - they are located in Alabama, California, Georgia (2), Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas (3), Louisiana (2), Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska (2), New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Lewiston.

Adding Lewiston to Our Gazetteer ...

Our notes show that the earliest dated mention that we've found for Lewiston was in the Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

We also found Lewiston on a map titled Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911).

For more details about the above, see References and Mentions for Lewiston on our Genealogy Page.

Other Roadside Stops ...

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About Kanawha County

About West Virginia

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Kanawha County: www.kanawha.us/

The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went north past Lewiston and then turned west". While Lewiston could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Lewiston as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future. Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name. Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time. Also keep in mind that Lewiston could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>	A demonym is the name for a resident of a community which is usually derived from (or is related to) the name of that community. In other words, it's how the residents of Lewiston refer to themselves. It's important to note that there aren't any rules for taking a community's name and turning it into a demonym. A demonym is informal and while the majority of Lewiston may use one name, keep in mind that others may use something different.
<3>	Area code (681) is an overlay for area code (304).

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