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‘Dissecting Wheeling’ YouTube Series Tells Historical Tales

A Friendly City historian has created a new YouTube Channel.

February 25, 2023

Gone Forever – A Neighborhood Known as Grandview Manor

When I grew up, I didn’t know what the Housing Act of 1937 involved, but it was legislation that appropriated funding for public housing. I...

November 6, 2022

Gone Forever – One. Two. Three Bridges Across the Ohio River

A historic story and photo series on the Steel Bridge, a span once in the city of Wheeling.

October 30, 2022

Poor Henry Daub – The Demise of a Wheeling Brewer and Saloon Keeper

The history is archived by the Ohio County Public Library.

July 3, 2022

Gone Forever – Before I-70, There Was the Fort Henry Motel

The Fort Henry Motel was located on U.S. Route 40, or National Road, in Elm Grove, and it seemed to be there during whole childhood.

May 22, 2022

‘Gone Forever’ – Why Did They Replace Ohio County Courthouse?

There is not much you can say about this building except it is a shame it is gone forever and I could show many photographs, but I will try to keep it to a minimum.

May 1, 2022

Gone Forever – The Evolution of OVMC

A historical photo series.

April 17, 2022

Bill Burke Exhibit Features Wheeling in the 1970s

The Ohio County Public Library at 52-16th Street in Wheeling will host an exhibit of 25 photographs taken by Bill Burke in Wheeling during...

April 15, 2022

Local Filmmaker John W. Miller will Screen PBS Film “Moundsville” Today

Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex in Moundsville, WV is pleased to host filmmaker John W. Miller for a screening of “Moundsville” on Saturday, April...

April 9, 2022

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