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• Bernard P. McDonough

  … and later in Belpre, Ohio, near Parkersburg. Young Bernard and his sisters returned … specialized in building gas stations in Parkersburg and the surrounding area. McDonough continued … the O. Ames Company (1955), a Parkersburg tool manufacturer where he had …

• Ohio Valley University

  Ohio Valley University, located between "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … and Ohio purchased 132 acres between Parkersburg and Vienna for the purpose … held in temporary facilities in South Parkersburg. Beginning in 1963, new buildings …

• Parkersburg Community College

  See "WVU at Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1360.

• DeSales Heights

  … , a colony of eight Catholic nuns set out for "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811 from Washington, D … of a new home and school located on the outskirts of Parkersburg on Garfield Avenue. They named the red and brick monastery …

• Donaghho Pottery

  … , July 2, 1829, and he died in Parkersburg in 1899. It is thought that he … owned by an uncle. He came to Parkersburg in 1870 and began a pottery operation … ‘‘Excelsior Pottery’’ on big pieces, and ‘‘Parkersburg.’’ Many were decorated with advertisements for …

• Fort Boreman

  … and Little Kanawha rivers at "Parkersburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … new governor and a citizen of Parkersburg. Construction of the fort began in … terminal and the river facilities at Parkersburg. Built of logs placed two high …

• Beverly

  … and surrounding counties until the loss of the county seat to Elkins in 1899. Beverly, located on the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584, lay at a strategic highway junction. The "Civil War": …

• Margaret Agnew Blennerhassett

  … had constructed on an "Ohio River island":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1741 near present "Parkersburg":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811. The Blennerhassetts attempted to bring refinement to the rugged " …

• Glen B. Gainer III

  … org/articles/310. Gainer was born on February 26, 1960, in "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811. He earned a bachelor … Crime Center. Gainer is married to Susan Ryder, and they have two children. They live in Parkersburg.

• The Rathbone Well

  … to the Burning Springs oil field and to crude oil being stored in the area. Flames from the fire could be seen in Parkersburg, 40 miles away. Though Camden and the Rathbones repaired the damage and continued to drill, Burning Springs never rose to its pre- …

• Battle of Rich Mountain

  … at Rich Mountain, Garnett abandoned Laurel Hill. False information convinced him that his line of retreat along the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584 was cut off, and he began an arduous and circuitous …

• Ritchie County

  … through the county and on to Parkersburg. The county’s population doubled by … few years later, the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … Virginia state engineer when the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike was built. The " …

• River Transportation

  … , departed Charleston in 2004. The "Blennerhassett Island":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/540 fleet runs visitors from Parkersburg to the Island and back. There have been excursion boats at Huntington, Wheeling, and other towns, but none …

• Rural Electrification

  … the Jackson’s Mill state 4-H camp. Electricity generated from natural gas had brought streetlights to the citizens of "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1811 in 1888, the first use of commercial electric power in the state. …

• St. Marys

  … building. Sadly, both glass factories were destroyed by fire. St. Marys is located on the Ohio River at the intersection of State Routes 2 and 16, east of Parkersburg. The town population peaked at 2,443 in 1960, declining to 1,847 in 2020.

• Scenic Highways

  … Morgan counties in the Eastern Panhandle; and the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584 (180 miles) from Parkersburg to just beyond Bartow. The state also designates its …

• Secondary School Activities Commission

  … were Bluefield’s Beaver High School, Charleston, Clarksburg’s Washington Irving High School, Elkins, Fairmont, Grafton, Huntington, Parkersburg, St. Marys, Sistersville, and Wheeling. The name of the organization was changed to the West Virginia Secondary …

• Amtrak

  … to Chicago prior to 1971. Previously two other Amtrak trains served West Virginia, the Blue Ridge from Washington to Parkersburg and the Hilltopper over the "Norfolk & Western":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1683 main line from …

• Appalachian Corridor Highways

  … as an 82-mile four-lane highway from Ohio to I-77 at Parkersburg and on to I-79 at Clarksburg. Seventy-two miles of the highway were built from Parkersburg to Clarksburg by the late 1970s. After sufficient funding was secured, a …

• Appalachian Regional Commission

  … to Interstate 68 but the others, all four-lane, limited-access expressways, remain part of the Appalachian corridor system. One connects Parkersburg to Clarksburg on U.S. 50; Corridor G stretches along U.S. 119 from Charleston southwest through Logan to …

• Thomas Maley Harris

  … youth, Harris took advantage of limited opportunities for education. As a young man, he began a teaching career at the Parkersburg Institute. He studied medicine at Louisville, where he graduated in 1843. When the Civil War began, Harris was practicing …

• Architects and Architecture

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1488. "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/ … enough to have its own architects. Parkersburg’s Juliana and Ann streets … www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/887, a Parkersburg native, practiced in his hometown …

• Seventh-day Adventists

  … 1971, the conference was reorganized as the Mountain View Conference of Seventh-day Adventists with its main office in Parkersburg. About the time of the 1971 reorganization, the conference purchased more than 200 acres south of Huttonsville and developed …

• Art and Artists

  … currents in her work as an artist and as a leading teacher in the Kanawha Valley, as did Katherine Burnside in Parkersburg. Clarksburg native James Edward Davis’s progressive experiments with color and motion eventually led him to a pioneering role in the …

• Aviation

  … .org/articles/782 in Huntington (1952), Raleigh County Memorial Airport near Beckley (1952), Wood County Airport near Parkersburg (1946), and the Greenbrier Valley Airport at Lewisburg (1968). General aviation airports are becoming increasingly important …