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Added to NRHP. September 19, 1996. The West Virginia Penitentiary is a gothic -style prison located in Moundsville, West Virginia. Now withdrawn and retired from prison use, it operated from 1866 to 1995. Currently, the site is maintained as a tourist attraction, museum, training facility, and filming location. [2]
www .cityofmoundsville .com. Moundsville is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. [4] The population was 8,122 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Wheeling metropolitan area.
Moundsville native and penitentiary employee Wes Hudson said the impact of tourism on the small town is significant. "It's fun, busy, and with the haunt tours it's different," Hudson said. "People ...
July 19, 1964 [2] The Grave Creek Mound in the Ohio River Valley in West Virginia is one of the largest conical-type burial mounds in the United States, now standing 62 feet (19 m) high and 240 feet (73 m) in diameter. [3] The builders of the site, members of the Adena culture, moved more than 60,000 tons of dirt to create it about 250–150 BC.
On January 1, 1986 a two-day riot began at the West Virginia State Penitentiary resulted in three inmate deaths. The Eastern Regional Jail and Corrections Facility in Martinsburg, the first of the state's 10 regional jails opened in May 1989. The regional jails would gradually replace the 55 county jails.
New Vrindaban is an unincorporated area and an ISKCON (Hare Krishna) intentional community located in Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, near Moundsville. The town consists of 1,204 acres (4.87 km 2) (0.1 km² of which is water), and several building complexes, homes, apartment buildings, and businesses including the Sri Sri Radha Vrindaban Chandra Temple (RVC Temple) and ...
1555323 [1] Pence Springs is an unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along the Greenbrier River to the east of the city of Hinton, the county seat of Summers County. [2] Its elevation is 1,539 feet (469 m), and it is located at 37°40′41″N 80°43′30″W (37.6781762, -80.7250808). [3]
The Criel Mound, also known as the South Charleston Mound, is a Native American burial mound located in South Charleston, West Virginia. It is one of the few surviving mounds of the Kanawha Valley Mounds that were probably built in the Woodland period after 500 B.C. [2] The mound was built by the Adena culture, probably around 250–150 BC ...