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2. J.L.Stifel and Sons - Wikipedia

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   In the summer of 1834, poor and alone, Johann Stifel walked from Bethlehem, Pa., to Wheeling. He traveled barefoot part of the time to save wear on his shoes. He became one of the first Germans to settle in Wheeling and in the winter of 1834-35 worked for his board on a local farm.

3. List of West Virginia state agencies - Wikipedia

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   West Virginia Board of Education; West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission; West Virginia Council for Community and Technical College Education; West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts. West Virginia Division of Culture and History; West Virginia Division of Rehabilitation Services; West Virginia Department of Environmental ...

4. Wheeling, West Virginia - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

5. West Virginia bill adding work search to unemployment ... - AOL

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   West Virginia's unemployed people will need to do more to prove they are searching for jobs to collect state benefits under a new law that will take effect later this year. A controversial bill ...

6. Linsly School - Wikipedia

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   The school's first location was in downtown Wheeling, purchased with the sale of two farms that Noah Linsly had left to the Lancastrian Academy. [9] The second building was in downtown Wheeling, Va. This building was used as a temporary statehouse when West Virginia became a state. The building is known as the First State Capitol.

7. J. H. Hobbs, Brockunier and Company - Wikipedia

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   A big name change, not related to the company, occurred in June 1863—when the northwestern portion of Virginia, including Wheeling, became the state of West Virginia. [17] The war continued to cause a labor shortage for the company, and this problem got worse during the summer of 1863 when some of the factory personnel left to form another ...

8. ‘West Virginia Boys’ move a literal mountain to build a road ...

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   Coal miners from West Virginia – whom locals have lovingly dubbed the “West Virginia Boys” – moved a mountain in just three days to reopen a 2.7-mile stretch of Highway 64 between Bat Cave ...

9. Belmont Glass Company - Wikipedia

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   Bellaire also had a workforce with glassmaking expertise located less than five miles away, since glass had been produced in Wheeling, West Virginia, since the 1820s. The group of men that organized the Belmont Glass Company included men with glass making experience gained from the Hobbs, Brockunier and Company glass works located in Wheeling ...