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Founded as the Wheeling Intelligencer in August 1852 by Eli B. Swearingen and Oliver Taylor, The Intelligencer is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the state of West Virginia. The paper was initially established as a means to promote Winfield Scott and the Whig Party in the 1852 United States presidential election .
Members of several notable Wheeling families and natives including United States Congressmen Carl G. Bachmann, Chester D. Hubbard, William P. Hubbard, John O. Pendleton, and Benjamin Stanton, as well as Metropolitan Opera soprano Eleanor Steber, Medal of Honor recipient Daniel A. Woods, and architect Frederick F. Faris, are buried in the Cemetery.
WKKX is a locally-owned station that features local news talk. Notable hosts are Howard Monroe, Steve Novotney, and Bill DiFabio. In 2009, the long-running Jamboree radio program moved from its longtime home of WWVA, where it had aired from 1933 until its cancellation in the mid-2000s, to WKKX.
WTRF-TV (channel 7) is a television station licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, serving the Wheeling, West Virginia–Steubenville, Ohio market as an affiliate of CBS, MyNetworkTV, and ABC. The station is owned by Nexstar Media Group and maintains studios on 16th Street in downtown Wheeling; its transmitter is located in ...
A small one-acre cemetery was established on the hill overlooking North Wheeling (once called "Wheeling Hill") by the Woods family in 1831. According to local legend, Ebenezer Zane paused on the hill and declared the area he saw the "land of promise" for which he had been looking. Pioneer Robert T. Woods (1754–1831) (who had settled in the ...
According to data from Realtor.com, the median price for a home in the United States sat at around $330,000 at the time Sweeney bought the house, compared to May 2024’s median price of $438,483.
Joseph Howard Hodges (October 8, 1911 – January 27, 1985) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.He served as bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston from 1962 until his death in 1985.
Wheeling is also home to the Victoria Theater, the oldest theater in West Virginia. The 700-seat Victorian-style theater was home to the WWVA Jamboree program from 1933 to 1936. More recently, it has been the site for the "Wheeling Jamboree", a local initiative started in 2009 and modeled after the original WWVA Jamboree (which changed its name ...