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The newspaper was formed by the merger of the previously separate morning News and afternoon Sentinel on April 25, 2009. [2] Prior to the merge, the Sentinel had published continuously for 134 years. [2] The first Parkersburg News, owned by secessionist Charles Rhoads, began publication before the Civil War. In May 1861, the office was ...
West Virginia Circuit Judge George Hill ordered them to stop shredding and hand over the remaining papers. One of the items slated for destruction revealed that the department’s early calculations had actually set the safety limit for C8 closer to 1 part per billion—not 150 parts per billion, the figure announced at the Parkersburg meeting.
Multiple homes and buildings were swept away, 7 people died in Parkersburg. After hitting Parkersburg, the tornado then continued to move over the Legend Trail Golf Course, leaving a trench of 1 mile. The tornado sustains its EF5 winds, as it crosses Beaver Creek, before hitting a group of homes on the north of New Hartford, at EF5 intensity.
Parkersburg, West Virginia: Inactive [86] [78] Gamma Gamma - before 1939 Inactive Gamma Delta: October 21, 1932: November 5, 1932: Brantley-Draughon Business College: Fort Worth, Texas: Inactive [87] [88] Gamma Epsilon - before 1939 Bliss Business College: Columbus, Ohio: Inactive [89] Gamma Zeta (See Beta Zeta) October 9, 1934: Delta College ...
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.
"Oakland," also known as the James M. Stephenson House, is a home located in Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.Although a slaveholder and sympathizing with the Confederacy, Stephenson was also married to the sister of Unionist Arthur Boreman, and allowed then Union Army Col. (later Gen.) James B. Steedman to use his grove nearby during the American Civil War.
Road incident deaths in West Virginia (4 P) Pages in category "Accidental deaths in West Virginia" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
St. Francis Xavier Church is a historic church at 532 Market Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia. This church was built in 1869 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] St. Francis Xavier is one of the four original churches of the Diocese of Wheeling. [2] St. Xavier is also the oldest church building in Parkersburg.