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B&O engines alongside the shops in Martinsburg, W.Va. on March 2, 1969. The Martinsburg shops were used until March 14, 1988 (a year after the B&O folded into CSX), when all local operations were transferred to other locations. On May 14, 1990, vandals set fire to wooden pallets in the East Roundhouse, nearly destroying the building.
Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the seat of Kanawha County. [9] It is at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers. The population was 48,864 at the 2020 census. [5] According to 2023 census estimates, the city has a population of 46,838. [6] The Charleston metropolitan area had 203,164 ...
The Charleston Gazette-Mail is a non-daily morning newspaper in Charleston, West Virginia. It is the product of a July 2015 merger between The Charleston Gazette and the Charleston Daily Mail. It is one of nine papers owned by HD Media. It publishes Tuesday-Saturday, with the Saturday paper being dated "Weekend", with updates on its website on ...
Charleston Town Center is an enclosed shopping mall in downtown Charleston, West Virginia. One of the largest enclosed malls in the United States to be located in a downtown shopping district, it has comprised more than 130 tenants on two levels at its peak, in addition to food court on a partial third level. As of December 2024, there are 41 ...
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It was then moved to Charleston, a more central city, from 1870 to 1875, when it returned to Wheeling. In 1885, the capitol burned down and it was moved back to Charleston that year, where a vote was held to determine the permanent capital between Charleston, Clarksburg, and Martinsburg. Charleston was selected, and it has remained the capital ...
The Wheeling Jamboree is the second oldest country music radio broadcast in the United States after the Grand Ole Opry. [1] The Jamboree originated in 1933 in Wheeling, West Virginia on WWVA, the first radio station in West Virginia and a 50,000-watt clear-channel station AM station until about 2007. [2]
Rock Lake Pool was an outdoor swimming pool located in South Charleston, West Virginia operating from 1942 to 1985. [1] Being 550 feet (170 m) long, it was billed as "the largest and most beautiful pool in the East." [1] The pool was built in an old rock quarry in the 1930s [2] and opened by Joe, David, and Sam Wilan in 1942. [3]