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Sherman Harrison Dalrymple (1889 – March 16, 1962) was an American labor unionist.. Born in Roane County, West Virginia, [1] Dalrymple moved to Akron, Ohio in 1903 to pay off debts on his family's farm, finding work in the rubber industry. [2]
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]
Washington Works is a plastics factory [1] that occupies a 1,200 acre site. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is located on DuPont Road, Washington , [ 3 ] six miles [ 4 ] from Parkersburg, West Virginia , on the Ohio River .
The site of Elizabeth was first settled by William Beauchamp (1743-1808) in 1796 when it was still part of the original, vast Harrison County, Virginia.It was known as "Beauchamp's Mills" until 1817 when it was renamed for Elizabeth (Woodyard) Beauchamp (1780-1838), the wife of William's son David Beauchamp (1776-1828).
Solutia was known as the world's leading manufacturer of PVB, EVA, and TPU interlayers, custom-coated window and performance films, and chemicals for the rubber industry. [3] In 2009, the company completed the sale of its nylon division, with closure of the sale in the second quarter 2009. [ 4 ]
Location of Nitro in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Coordinates: 38°24′55″N 81°49′52″W / 38.41528°N 81.83111°W / 38.41528; -81 Country
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia engaged in a tax competition for the plant. In 2012, Pennsylvania structured a deal requiring Shell to invest at least $1 billion in Pennsylvania and create at least 2,500 construction jobs in exchange for a 25-year tax incentive of $66 million per year and tied to production, reducing Shell's tax by up to 20 per cent.
Moundsville is a city in and the county seat of Marshall County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. [4] The population was 8,122 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. The city was named for the nearby ancient Grave Creek Mound, constructed 250 to 100 BC by indigenous people of the Adena culture. [5]