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Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park is a state park located on Blennerhassett Island, a small island in the Ohio River, located in Wood County, West Virginia, USA. The property was the site of a Palladian mansion owned by Harman Blennerhassett , a participant in some of the alleged intrigues of Aaron Burr , and his wife Margaret Agnew ...
Elizabethtown Ferry: KY 297: Elizabethtown and Tolu: Cave-in-Rock Ferry: IL 1 / KY 91: Cave-in-Rock and Ferry Shore: Lock and Dam No. 50: Cave-in-Rock and Ferry Shore Shawneetown Bridge: IL 13 / KY 56: Old Shawneetown and Spring Grove: 1955
In 1798, Harman Blennerhassett, a figure in the Aaron Burr "treason" conspiracy, purchased the east end of the island with his wife Margaret Agnew and it became known by their name. [1] Their residence, Blennerhassett House, where Burr and Blennerhassett are alleged to have plotted treason against the United States in the Burr Conspiracy ...
US 50 crosses the Ohio River on a bridge, with Blennerhassett Island in the middle of the river. It continues as a freeway with two interchanges at Route 892, and runs concurrently with Route 68 starting at the second interchange up to where it exits and heads into downtown Parkersburg.
Blennerhassett is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Parkersburg - Marietta - Vienna , WV- OH Metropolitan Statistical Area . The population was 3,089 at the 2010 census.
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Blennerhassett Island Bridge, with a network arch design, [1] carries U.S. Route 50 (Appalachian Development Highway System's Corridor D) over the Ohio River and the historic Blennerhassett Island between Belpre Township, Ohio and Washington, West Virginia in the United States.
Their home on the island remained empty for many years before finally burning to the ground. Between 1984 and 1991, the State of West Virginia reconstructed the Blennerhassett Mansion on its original foundations. The mansion and island comprise Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park. In 1996, the bodies of Margaret and Harman Jr. were ...