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2. Wood County, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 84,296, [1] making it West Virginia's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Parkersburg. [2] The county was formed in 1798 from the western part of Harrison County and named for James Wood, governor of Virginia from 1796 to 1799. [3]

3. List of counties in West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]

4. Parkersburg, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States. [5] Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-most populous city and the center of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area .

5. National Register of Historic Places listings in Wood County ...

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   This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.

6. Wood County Courthouse (West Virginia) - Wikipedia

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   The Wood County Courthouse is a public building in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, in the United States. [2] The courthouse was built in 1899 at a cost of $100,000 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by local contractors Caldwell & Drake , according to the plans of architect L. W. Thomas of Canton, Ohio . [ 3 ]

7. Grant District, Jackson County, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   Until 1831, the area of Jackson County was divided between Wood County, Mason County, and Kanawha County, West Virginia. All of Grant District lay within the boundaries of Wood County. With the establishment of the new county, the United States Post Office Department began appointing postmasters to handle the mail. Thomas Coleman was appointed ...