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Ohio Valley Medical Center (OVMC) was a 200-bed health care facility in Wheeling, West Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1890 as City Hospital. It was founded in 1890 as City Hospital. Ohio Valley General Hospital School of Nursing was established on campus in 1892, and was the first school of nursing in the state of West Virginia.
Wheeling was settled in 1769 on land contested between colonial Pennsylvania and Virginia, and later grew to become Virginia's largest city west of the Appalachians. During the American Civil War , Wheeling was the host of the Wheeling Conventions that led to the separation of West Virginia from Virginia and served as the state capital from ...
HABS No. WV-186, "John Thoner House, 2238 Market Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV", 3 photos, 1 color transparency, 2 measured drawings, 7 data pages, 2 photo caption pages HABS No. WV-187, " William T. Zink Double House, 2206–2208 Market Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV ", 5 photos, 1 color transparency, 1 measured drawing, 7 data pages, 2 ...
Wheeling Hospital is a 223 bed hospital in Wheeling, West Virginia. Originally founded in 1850, it is one of the oldest hospitals in the United States in continuous operation as an institution. [1] It was founded by visitation nuns and later became affiliated with the convent of the Sisters of St. Joseph. [2]
Media related to Chapline Street Row Historic District at Wikimedia Commons . Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. WV-188, "Chapline Street Row Historic District, 2301-2319 Chapline Street, Wheeling, Ohio County, WV", 3 photos, 3 measured drawings, 1 photo caption page
WesBanco Arena (originally Wheeling Civic Center) is a multi-purpose arena located in Wheeling, West Virginia.It was built in 1977 at a cost of $7 million. It is home to the Wheeling Nailers ice hockey team, the Wheeling Miners indoor football team, the Mountain East Conference basketball tournament and the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference wrestling tournament.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Two views of Charles Bates' National Bank of West Virginia, later home to the W.M. Marsh Drug Company, built 1914-15 in the Wheeling Central Business District. At left is the original structure as depicted in a postcard ca. 1915, and at right is the building in 2016, shorn of its elaborate entablature.