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Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 84,296, [ 1 ] making it West Virginia's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Parkersburg . [ 2 ]
Location of Wood County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Wood County, West Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, West Virginia, United States.
Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park is a state park located on Blennerhassett Island, a small island in the Ohio River, located in Wood County, West Virginia, USA. The property was the site of a Palladian mansion owned by Harman Blennerhassett, a participant in some of the alleged intrigues of Aaron Burr, and his wife Margaret Agnew. [3]
Several members were influential farmers who helped incorporate what is now Wood County, West Virginia, in 1798. [a] By the time of the 1826 marriage of George W. Henderson and Elizabeth Ann Tomlinson Henderson, the family controlled about 2,000 acres (810 ha) in Wood County alone, as well as more land in other parts of the region. [3]
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.
Historic districts in Wood County, West Virginia (5 P) Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, West Virginia" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
The Wood County Courthouse is a public building in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, in the United States. [2] The courthouse was built in 1899 at a cost of $100,000 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by local contractors Caldwell & Drake, according to the plans of architect L. W. Thomas of Canton, Ohio. [3]
The Julia-Ann Square Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is to the west of the Avery Street Historic District. It encompasses all houses on Ann and Juliana Streets from Riverview Cemetery to 9th Street. There are 116 contributing buildings and one contributing site.