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• Jews

  … areas of the state, including Clarksburg, Huntington, and Parkersburg. Others traveled the mountains with packs on their … as Bluefield, Clarksburg, Fairmont, Keystone, Kimball, Logan, Martinsburg, Parkersburg, Weirton, Welch, and Williamson are gone. Today, …

• Don Chafin

  … College (now "Marshall University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1529), and at the Mountain State Business College in Parkersburg. His career included service as a teacher, a store clerk, and store owner and operator, but he is best …

• Chamber of Commerce

  … followed, culminating in the adoption of a constitution and bylaws in Parkersburg in January 1936. Richard Harte of Parkersburg was elected the first president of the state Chamber of Commerce. The first Chamber …

• Mother Jones

  … sent to the Fairmont field. Two weeks after a strike was called in June 1902, she was arrested and taken to Parkersburg for violating "Judge John Jay Jackson Jr.’s":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/941 injunction. When freed, she returned …

• West Virginia Juried Exhibition

  … to travel to smaller museums and art centers in communities across West Virginia. In 2007, the exhibition was staged at the Parkersburg Art Center, the first time the exhibit was held outside Charleston. The exhibit has also been presented in Beckley, …

• West Virginia Press Association

  … of newspapers in the state. The association was organized by a group of editors and publishers who met in "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811 after several months of correspondence. Originally, nearly all West Virginia …

• West Virginia State Rail Authority

  … articles/34, running 78 miles from North Caldwell to Cass and Durbin; the North Bend River Trail, running 72 miles from Parkersburg to Wilsonburg and Walker; and the Caperton Trail, running 50 miles from Reedsville to the Pennsylvania line. In October 2014 …

• Cheat Mountain

  … .org/articles/38. Cheat Mountain was a formidable barrier to the westward movement of early settlers. The "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584, now U.S. 250, eventually crossed the mountain at Cheat Bridge …

• Battle of Cheat Mountain

  … Mountain. To begin the Confederate assault, Gen. H. R. Jackson was to create a diversion along the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584 in front of the Cheat Mountain fortification, while Col. Albert Rust …

• West Virginia Symphony Orchestra

  … resident string quartet, staging of operatic productions, founding of the symphony chorus, extensive statewide touring, including a second home in Parkersburg, a late summer festival at the Snowshoe resort, and a new home in the "Clay Center for the …

• Chemical Industry

  … /2266. The venture, named Mobay, was later bought out by Bayer. GE and DuPont built new plastics plants in Parkersburg. In the 1960s, Union Carbide built a silicones unit near Sistersville. As the 20th century ended, the increasingly competitive and …

• Lemuel Chenoweth

  … being received in the 1840s for the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584 bridges, … , after Chenoweth had completed many bridges on the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, bids were taken for bridges on the Beverly- …

• West Virginia University

  … will cut that number by 28. A third regional campus, at Parkersburg, became independent in 2008 but remains affiliated as "WVU Parkersburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1360. WVU confers more …

• Weston

  … 1362. It was initially called Preston, then Fleshersville. In 1819, Weston became the permanent name. The building of the "Staunton-Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584 and the "Weston & Gauley Bridge":http://www. …

• Weston & Gauley Bridge Turnpike

  … eventually stretched nearly 110 miles through a rugged Appalachian landscape. When completed, the road connected the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584 at Weston with the "James River & Kanawha …

• Children’s Home Society of West Virginia

  … Harless Children's Shelter in Holden (Logan County), Parkersburg Community-Based Services, Romney Child Shelter, and … Huntington, Lewisburg, Logan, Martinsburg, Milton, Morgantown, Northfork, Parkersburg, Princeton, Romney, Summersville, and Wheeling.

• Circuit Riders

  … from the Redstone Conference in Pennsylvania. These men created congregations in the northern part of the state, in cities such as Parkersburg, Clarksburg, and Grafton, and in smaller towns and rural areas. By the early 1800s, the expansion of the two …

• Clarksburg

  … until the 1830s, when the "Northwestern Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1706 was built from Winchester to Parkersburg via Romney and Clarksburg. The arrival of the "Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad":http://www. …

• Don Whitlatch

  … - April 22, 2017) was born in Parkersburg. Noted for his realistic portrayal of … more than 30 years. After graduation from Parkersburg High School, Whitlatch served in the … donated his art to help these groups raise funds. Whitlatch died in Parkersburg.

• Korean War

  … replacements in Korea. Serving directly on the Korean front were four companies of the 1092nd Engineer Combat Battalion from Parkersburg and Salem, also National Guard. The West Virginia members of this battalion served two years in federal service during …

• Ku Klux Klan

  … and elsewhere. An out-of-state Klan publication carried reports from several West Virginia locations in 1924, including Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Williamson, and McDowell County. The Klan of the 1920s opposed Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and labor unions as …

• Williamstown

  Williamstown is located on the "Ohio River":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 north of "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811, at the junction of Interstate 77 and State Route 2. It is the site of one of …

• Wirt County

  … gas industry to flourish in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, since producers could ship their crude oil to "Parkersburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811 refineries more easily. Wirt County’s population peaked in 1900 at 10,284 …

• Alexander Scott Withers

  … resided with his eldest daughter, with whom he moved to "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811 in 1861. A supporter … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2439 of May 1861. Withers died at Parkersburg and was buried in Weston.

• Wood County

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/336) to Parkersburg a decade later. The discovery … the state in educational leadership. In Parkersburg the first free school south … college: "West Virginia University at Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ …