Point Pleasant River Museum
The site of the new building for the Point Pleasant River Museum and Lakin Ray Cook Learning Center.
Museum staff broke ground on Monday for a new building to house the Point Pleasant River Museum and Lakin Ray Cook Learning Center.
Following a fire that gutted the Old Nease Building, the previous home of the museum, the museum staff has been working to raise funds for a new building.
Teri Deweese
Smoke rolling out of the roof of the Point Pleasant River Museum on the day of the fire.
“Once it is built and fully operational, you re going to be able to experience a ‘wow.’” said James McCormick, executive director of the museum. “You re going to learn things about the history of the museum, the history of the river.”