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Wheeling Island is the most populated island in the Ohio River. [1] It lies within the city of Wheeling in Ohio County, West Virginia, in the United States.The 2000 census showed a resident population of 3,142 people on the island, which has a land area of 1.514 square kilometres (374 acres). [2]
All of the following are located in Wheeling, Ohio County, WV: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WV-183, "Irwin-Brues House, 201 North Front Street", 7 photos, 8 data pages, 1 photo caption page; HABS No. WV-271, "174 Zane Street (House)", 10 photos, 4 data pages, 3 photo caption pages
West Virginia Independence Hall was the site of the Wheeling Convention, two meetings held in 1861 that ultimately reversed Virginia's Ordinance of Secession. 26 counties in Virginia's north and west voted against secession from the Union and created the new state of West Virginia, which the United States quickly admitted.
Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area.As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,425. [1]
West Virginia Legislature convenes. [14] Daily Register newspaper begins publication. [7] 1865 – St. Joseph's Academy for girls established. [6] 1866 – Greenwood Cemetery established. [15] 1870 West Virginia capital relocated from Wheeling to Charleston. [1] Population: 19,280. [10] 1875 – Wheeling becomes capital of West Virginia again. [2]
The Wheeling, WV–OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and one in eastern Ohio, anchored by the city of Wheeling.
Two views of Charles Bates' National Bank of West Virginia, later home to the W.M. Marsh Drug Company, built 1914-15 in the Wheeling Central Business District. At left is the original structure as depicted in a postcard ca. 1915, and at right is the building in 2016, shorn of its elaborate entablature.
North Wheeling Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 134 contributing buildings and one contributing object in a 2 1/2-block section of northern Wheeling, known as "Old Town". Most of the district consists of mid-to late-19th-century residential buildings.