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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 Now withdrawn and retired from prison use, it operated from 1866 to 1995.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]
Last year more than 25,000 visitors stepped through the prison grounds, still owned by the state of West Virginia. "My favorite area is the psych ward. That is my favorite paranormal section ...
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.
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.
Several weeks before his execution, James Briley married a writer who believed his claims of innocence, Evangeline Grant Redding, on March 28, 1985, in a prison ceremony attended by his father, James Sr. The brothers were executed in the electric chair at the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond; Linwood on October 12, 1984, and J.B. on ...
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]