Clarksburg, West Virginia City of Clarksburg Flag of City of Clarksburg Location in Harrison County in the State of West Virginia Location in Harrison County in the State of West Virginia State West Virginia Website Clarksburg, West Virginia Clarksburg is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state.
It is the principal town/city of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a populace of 94,221 in 2014. Clarksburg was titled National Small City of the Year in 2011 by the National League of Cities.
The first documented visitor to the region now known as Clarksburg was John Simpson, a trapper, who in 1764 positioned his camp on the West Fork River opposite the mouth of Elk Creek at roughly 39 16 53 N 80 21 05 W (39.28128, -80.35145) As early as 1772, pioneer began locating their lands near where Clarksburg now stands.
Clarksburg was formed in 1785 in Virginia.
The town/city is titled for General George Rogers Clark, who attained fame on the frontier by his many expeditions against the British and Indians in the Indian Wars and the war of the American Revolution, especially by his capture of Fort of Vincennes, now in the State of Indiana, in 1778. In 1787, the Virginia General Assembly established the Randolph Academy at Clarksburg, the first such educational institution west of the Alleghenies. During the Civil War, the B&O line made Clarksburg an meaningful Union supply base.
Telephone service, the first in the state, began in Clarksburg in the mid-1880s.
The bodies were found at Powers's home in Quiet Dell, near Clarksburg.
The sensational story of a serial killer thriving so much consideration that Powers's trial was held at the Moore's Opera House in Clarksburg to accommodate the crowd of spectators.
On October 11, 1996, seven men having connections with the Mountaineer Militia, a small-town anti-government paramilitary group, were arrested on charges of plotting to blow up the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Criminal Justice Information Services Division complex in Clarksburg.
Plastic explosives were confiscated by law enforcement officials at five locations in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio.
On June 29, 2012, a violent storm, called a derecho, raced athwart West Virginia, leaving downed trees and damaged homes in its wake.
It reached West Virginia at about 6 p.m.
Wind speeds reached 78 miles per hour in Charleston, 66 miles per hour in Clarksburg, and 68 miles per hour in Beckley.
Health officials in West Virginia attributed the deaths of three citizens to the storm.
The last time a derecho had been recorded in West Virginia was 1991. The availability of natural resources, coupled with easy access to barns facilities, thriving trade and manufacturing to Clarksburg, including chemical plants, brickworks, potteries, foundries and machine shops, hardwood and casket companies, glass factories (including the Akro-Agate marble company), and the Jackson (later Phillips) Sheet and Tin Plate Company, the forerunner of Weirton Steel.
Early 20th century Clarksburg boasted eight banks, three hospitals, and a several fine hotels, including the elegant seven-story Waldo, which opened in 1909.
By 1929, Clarksburg had reached its peak populace of 35,115.
New expansion in the government and technology sectors began in the 1990s, including the relocation of the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Center to Clarksburg and assembly of a new federal building and a new building to home Fairmont State University's Clarksburg branch. In 1975, Clarksburg opened a new enhance library designed by Marcel Breuer, adding another diverse ive element to its architecturally rich downtown. Clarksburg is home to Eastpointe and Newpointe, the biggest strip mall in West Virginia, contiguous to Interstate 79.
The Akro Agate Company of Clarksburg was a world prestige in manufacturing glass marbles.
Organized in Akron, Ohio, in 1911 the firm relocated to Clarksburg in 1914 because of the availability of glass sand and inexpensive natural gas for fuel.
Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, the glassmaking enormous in a state known for glass production, was created in 1902 by the consolidation of four earlier companies.
The biggest glass business in the United States from the 1930s until the 1950s, Hazel Atlas was a primary producer of inexpensive ''depression glass'' table sets of pink, green, blue, colorless, and black glass.
Hazel Atlas glass plants in West Virginia encompassed one along the Tygart River in Grafton (1916 60) that largely produced wide-mouth canning jars, and the world's biggest tumbler factory in Clarksburg (1902 87).
In July 1995, the Federal Bureau of Investigation instead of assembly on its Criminal Justice Information Services Division complex in Clarksburg.
In 1990, in Byrd's second year as head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, the senator worked to fund the center and get it assembled in West Virginia, not Washington. Clarksburg is positioned at 39 16 53 N 80 21 05 W, along the West Fork River and Elk Creek. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.74 square miles (25.23 km2), all of it land. Clarksburg is positioned in West Virginia's North-Central region.
Clarksburg is positioned at the junction of U.S.
19, two miles west of the junction of U.S.
The town/city lies at an altitude of 1,007 feet at the junction of Elk Creek and the West Fork River of the Monongahela River. Clarksburg is at the crossroads of U.S.
Route 50 (Corridor D), the chief arterial route for Clarksburg, and Interstate 79.
Other primary highways include West Virginia Route 20, West Virginia Route 58, U.S.
Route 19, and West Virginia Route 98.
Route 50, chartered in 1827, and began in 1831, reached Clarksburg in 1836 and was macadamized from the Tygarts Valley River to Parkersburg in 1848.
WV-20.svg West Virginia Route 20 WV-58.svg West Virginia Route 58 WV-98.svg West Virginia Route 98 WV-279.svg West Virginia Route 279 Clarksburg is served by the North Central West Virginia Airport, roughly 7 miles east of the city.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 21.1% under the age of 18, 8.3% from 18 to 24, 27.3% from 25 to 44, 22.7% from 45 to 64, and 20.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
During the first decade of the 20th century, French was incessantly spoken on the West Virginia streets of such communities as South Charleston, the North View section of Clarksburg, and the small town of Salem.
About 1900, shifts in window-glass manufacture brought thousands of immigrants from the Charleroi region of Belgium just when the trade was expanding into West Virginia to take favor of inexpensive natural gas and large deposits of silica sand.
For a generation, window-glass factories, many of which were worker-owned cooperatives, relied heavily on these Belgian immigrants to furnish the skills necessary to make West Virginia a nationwide center of production.
West Virginia's Belgians came from an region economically similar to West Virginia.
The Belgians' new homes in north-central West Virginia and the Kanawha Valley must have felt familiar.
Belgian glassworkers found in the United States an effective trade union to represent their workplace concerns and the means to build a vibrant political boss advocating democratic socialism.
In fact, some of these Belgian enclaves, including Star City near Morgantown and Adamston (now part of Clarksburg), voted for Socialist mayors in the years before World War I.
Clarksburg is a cultural center of the north-central West Virginia region and hosts many affairs and festivals.
Since 1979 Clarksburg has hosted the annual West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival held amid Labor Day weekend.
Every September since 1991 the town/city has been the site of the West Virginia Black Heritage Festival.
Since 1997 Clarksburg has also hosted the Greater Clarksburg 10 - K race, the official WV 10 - K State Championship.
Climate data for Clarksburg, West Virginia Carlile: American merchant, attorney, and politician, including a United States Senator.
Samuel Lewis Hays 19th Century United States Senator Lynn Hornor: represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives Frank Loria: Virginia Tech Hokies football All American player.
Minard: Democratic member of the West Virginia Senate Reed: politician who represented West Virginia in the United States House of Representatives Cindy Taylor: fashion model, born in Paraguay, her father was a United States citizen, relocated the family to Clarksburg immediately after Taylor was born Natalie Tennant: WV Secretary of State, in 1990 Tennant was the first female to represent West Virginia University as the Mountaineer Mascot Cyrus Vance: United States Secretary of State United States Enumeration Bureau.
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West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer.
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United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Clarksburg, West Virginia Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
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