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96000987 [ 1] 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 Now withdrawn and retired from prison use, it operated from 1866 to 1995.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.
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 ...
FIPS code. 54-56020. GNIS feature ID. 1543607 [ 3] Website. 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.
October 15, 1966 [ 1] Designated NHL. 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 ...
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. / 39.03861°N 80.47139°W / 39.03861; -80.47139. Constructed 1858–1881. Opened to patients 1864. The Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum was a psychiatric hospital located in Weston, West Virginia and known by other names such as West Virginia Hospital for the Insane and Weston State Hospital.
Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC) is the male maximum security prison for the state of West Virginia, United States. MOCC is an operational unit of the West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation . Built as a replacement for the Civil War-era West Virginia Penitentiary at Moundsville, Mount Olive Correctional Complex (MOCC ...
The West Virginia Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation is an agency of the U.S. state of West Virginia within the state Department of Homeland Security that operates the state's prisons, jails and juvenile detention facilities. The agency has its headquarters in the state's capital of Charleston. [ 1]
MIAMI, FLORIDA - OCTOBER 11: The ACC logo on the goal post prior to the game between the Miami Hurricanes and the Virginia Cavaliers at Hard Rock Stadium on October 11, 2019 in Miami, Florida.