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• Legislature

  … senators. Much of the credit for the compromise is given to the clerk of the Senate at the time, John T. Harris of Parkersburg. The legislature, required to convene at the seat of government, met in Wheeling from 1863 to 70, in Charleston the following …

• Libertarian Party

  … essentially only that. In 1980, the Libertarian Party fielded its first candidate for statewide office when Jack K. Kelley of Parkersburg ran for governor. In 1994, after years of inactivity, the party regrouped around five Libertarians, led by John K. …

• Libraries

  … , who built libraries nationwide. The "Carnegie libraries":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/970 were at Huntington (1903), Parkersburg (1905), and Hinton (1924). In 1915, the legislature passed a bill ‘‘to empower cities and towns to levy …

• Auto Racing

  … old West Virginia Fairgrounds in South Parkersburg. There was also some early … was from the Wheeling area, and Parkersburg’s Paul Goldsmith successfully raced … , Elkins, Middlebourne, Mineral Wells, Ona, Parkersburg, Princeton, Ripley, and Summit Point.

• Little Kanawha River

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1740 at Parkersburg, 169 miles from its beginning … in the 1770s, with settlement at Parkersburg soon following. Eventually, the communities … By 1874, boats could travel from Parkersburg upriver past Palestine, Wirt County. …

• Locks and Dams

  … system was abandoned in 1882. In 1847, citizens of Parkersburg, Elizabeth, and Glenville organized the Little Kanawha Navigation Company … /1422, providing a four-foot navigation depth from Parkersburg to Burning Springs. In 1891, the federal government …

• Minnie Kendall Lowther

  … Mansions_ (1930); and _Blennerhassett Island in Romance and Tragedy_ (1936). Lowther worked as a newspaper columnist in Washington, and spent her last years as a newspaper writer in Parkersburg. She died in Harrisville, in her native Ritchie County.

• Jessica Lynch

  … ’s _Sunday Gazette-Mail_. Although she continued to suffer from medical problems, Lynch attended West Virginia University at Parkersburg and graduated in December 2011 with a degree in education. In 2024, the West Virginia Department of Veteran Affairs …

• Manufactured Housing

  … of all housing units. Of the seven counties with 25 percent or more manufactured housing in 2010, all were south of Parkersburg. In 2010, "Ohio County":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1739 had the lowest ratio, 3.7 percent, with " …

• Congressional Representation

  … Peter Van Winkle":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/852 from Parkersburg and "Waitman T. Willey":http://www. … B. Blair":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/525 of Parkersburg (First District), William G. Brown of Kingwood (Second …

• Marshall University Graduate College

  … , Marshall University, the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Potomac State College, and WVU’s community college at Parkersburg. The Carnegie Report praised the College of Graduate Studies for its efforts to deliver graduate education to remote …

• P. Joseph Mullins

  … . He later served as executive director of Mountain Artisans Inc. From 1977 to 1984, he was executive director of the Parkersburg Arts Center. In 1987, Mullins’s entry won the West Virginia Veterans’ Memorial design competition. Work on the $3.8 million …

• Muslims

  … Muslim presence, with second-generation Muslim West Virginians now growing up in their parents’ adopted homeland. Montgomery, Logan, Parkersburg, and other smaller cities have a few Muslim families and students who participate in community activities of …

• Natural Gas and Petroleum

  … least six refineries was built in "Parkersburg":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/ … to the closure of all the Parkersburg refineries except the one founded by … company. Although Standard Oil closed its Parkersburg refinery in 1936, a major …

• Battle of Corricks Ford

  … .org/articles/78 of Col. John Pegram on July 11, 1861, General Garnett first withdrew to the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584 at Leadsville (now Elkins, West Virginia). There Garnett was mistakenly …

• Greasy Neale

  Alfred Earle ‘‘Greasy’’ Neale (November 5, 1891-November 2, 1973) was born in Parkersburg. He was one of the state’s greatest all-around athletes. In high school he was a star. He attended "West Virginia Wesleyan College":http://www. …

• Country Doctors

  … he practiced until his death in 1941. Constant work and little rest exhausted James as it had his brother. He bought a farm near Parkersburg and quit medicine for a period. Years later, Dr. James Dye returned to Chloe and took up again his busy rural …

• McKinley’s Palace

  … to build (1914–20), the mansion was the gift of Johnson Camden McKinley to his new bride, Agra Bennett McKinley. Born in Parkersburg, McKinley came to Wheeling in 1893, and by 1908 had become a millionaire coal operator. He was named for his uncle, the …

• The Courts

  West Virginia, like all the states, has separate state and federal court systems. State courts process more than 98 percent of all litigation. The matters decided by state courts interpret and develop the laws that address the daily concerns of citizens. …

• Covered Bridges

  … /articles/1125 and James Moore. Chenoweth built most of the bridges in the central portion of the "Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/584, including the ones at Philippi and Barrackville. Moore supervised the …

• Newspapers

  … newspapers, such as the _"Parkersburg News":http://www.wvencyclopedia. … Virginia, beginning with _The Freeman_ in Parkersburg (1881) and Martinsburg's _Pioneer … have curtailed their publication schedules. The Parkersburg’s "_News and Sentinel_& …

• Crafts Movement

  … ;:http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/245, who made learning toys and apparel. The Rural Arts and Crafts Cooperative of the Parkersburg area became known for patchwork toys. VISTA worker James Thibeault began "Cabin Creek Quilts":http://www. …

• Claudius Crozet

  … projects including the layout of the "Northwestern Turnpike":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1706 from Winchester to Parkersburg. Later, Crozet was involved in railway construction, most notably the Blue Ridge Tunnel, which at 4,273 …

• Richard Currey

  Writer Richard Currey was born October 19, 1949, in Parkersburg. He served as a navy medical corpsman from 1968 to 1972, and studied at "West Virginia University":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1127 and Howard University. Currey’s …

• Northwestern Virginia Railroad

  … /articles/336 was being completed to Wheeling, Parkersburg supporters continued to push for a … Three Fork Creek in Taylor County to Parkersburg. This junction point generated the new … , and after January 1, 1865, it became known as the Parkersburg Branch.