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As Michael J. Pauley, historian, explains "The Avery Street Historic District District, Parkersburg's first "suburban" development, is highly significant for the historic role it played in sustaining the city as one of West Virginia's leading cities, housing the families who were the "life-blood" of the city's growth and development, and is significant for reflecting the rich architectural ...
St. Francis Xavier Church is a historic church at 532 Market Street in Parkersburg, West Virginia. This church was built in 1869 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [1] St. Francis Xavier is one of the four original churches of the Diocese of Wheeling. [2] St. Xavier is also the oldest church building in Parkersburg.
Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States. [5] Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-most populous city and the center of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area.
West Virginia Circuit Judge George Hill ordered them to stop shredding and hand over the remaining papers. One of the items slated for destruction revealed that the department’s early calculations had actually set the safety limit for C8 closer to 1 part per billion—not 150 parts per billion, the figure announced at the Parkersburg meeting.
Parkersburg High School–Washington Avenue Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. The Parkersburg High School was built in 1917 north of the Avery Street Historic District in the Jacobethan Revival style. It was designed by Ohio architect Frank Packard (1866-1923). [1] [2]
Henry Cooper House, also known as The Daughters of American Pioneers Museum and Cooper Cabin, is a historic home located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.The log cabin was erected in Slate District, Wood County, in 1804, by Henry Cooper, and is believed to be the first two-story log cabin in Wood County.
Joseph Eisele (c. 1834 – March 6, 1868), known as The Parkersburg Murderer, was a German serial killer who robbed and murdered three fellow immigrants in Parkersburg and Wheeling, West Virginia from June to December 1867. After a failed attempt on a would-be fourth victim, Eisele was arrested and linked to the previous crimes, to which he ...
Dr. W. W. Monroe House is a historic home located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia.It was built in 1898, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, frame dwelling on a sandstone foundation and clad in weatherboard.