Monteton

The Moneton lived in the Kanawha valley, a river country where wooded hills descend toward the Ohio. Their settlements stood along waterways that linked the Appalachian interior with the lands farther west. In 1674 the English trader Gabriel Arthur travelled with Indigenous companions into the valley and visited a large Moneton town. His account is among the last contemporary records to name the Moneton as a separate people. Later the valley became a route for hunters, traders and surveyors, and the Moneton themselves disappear from the records, probably merged with other communities of the region.