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Wheeling becomes capital of the new state of West Virginia. [2] West Virginia Legislature convenes. [14] Daily Register newspaper begins publication. [7] 1865 – St. Joseph's Academy for girls established. [6] 1866 – Greenwood Cemetery established. [15] 1870 West Virginia capital relocated from Wheeling to Charleston. [1] Population: 19,280 ...
Wheeling was settled in 1769 in 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 ...
Centre Market Square Historic District is a historic district in Wheeling, West Virginia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district includes 181 contributing buildings in a variety of popular architectural styles dating from as early as about 1850.
Monroe Street East Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia.The district encompasses six contributing buildings. They are a Greek Revival style church built in 1837, a Roman-Tuscan style dwelling dated to 1852 and known as the Paxton-Reed House, and an eclectic 1881 dwell
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Chapline Street Row Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, including eight residences. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings, including eight residences.
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.
East Wheeling Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 300 contributing buildings and one contributing site, including the Monroe Street East Historic District. The district is primarily residential, developed in the late-19th and early-20th century.