Wheeling, West Virginia Wheeling, West Virginia Official seal of Wheeling, West Virginia Location in Ohio County in the State of West Virginia Location in Ohio County in the State of West Virginia Wheeling is a town/city in Ohio County in the U.S.
Located nearly entirely in Ohio County, of which it is the county seat, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
Wheeling was originally a settlement in the British colony of Virginia and later an meaningful city in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
Wheeling was the first state capital of West Virginia.
Due to its locale along primary transportation routes, including the Ohio River, National Road, and the B&O Railroad, Wheeling became a manufacturing center in the late nineteenth century.
After experiencing the method of factories and substantial populace loss following World War II, Wheeling's primary industries now include healthcare, education, law and legal services, entertainment and tourism, and energy.
Wheeling is the principal town/city of the Wheeling, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
See also: Timeline of Wheeling, West Virginia The origins of the name "Wheeling" are disputed.
His severed head was displayed at the confluence of Wheeling Creek and the Ohio River. The region had been inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years.
Originally explored by the French, Wheeling still has a lead plate remnant buried by the explorer Celoron de Blainville in 1749 at the mouth of Wheeling Creek to mark their claim.
During the fall of 1769, Ebenezer Zane explored the Wheeling region and established claim to the territory via "tomahawk rights." He returned the following spring with his wife Elizabeth and his younger brothers, Jonathan and Silas; they established the first permanent European settlement in the Wheeling area, naming it Zanesburg.
In 1787, the United States gave Virginia this portion of lands west of the Appalachians, and some to Pennsylvania at its edge, to settle their claims.
On March 11, 1836, the town of Wheeling was incorporated into the town/city of Wheeling.
By an act of the Virginia General Assembly on December 27, 1797, Wheeling was titled the governmental center of county of Ohio County. Wheeling Suspension Bridge The National Road appeared in Wheeling in 1818, linking the Ohio River to the Potomac River, and allowing goods from the Ohio Valley to flow through Wheeling and on to points east.
In 1849 the Wheeling Suspension Bridge crossed the Ohio River and allowed the town/city to grew onto Wheeling Island.
Rail transit reached Wheeling in 1853 when the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad connected Wheeling to Pennsylvania, Maryland and markets in the Northeast.
The Wheeling Intelligencer journal expressed the area's anti-secession sentiment as tensions rose over standardized and nationwide issues.
It was the locale of the aforementioned Wheeling Convention. It served as the provisional capital of the Restored Government of Virginia from 1861 to 1863, and became the first capital of West Virginia after it seceded from Virginia and was admitted to the Union in its own right in 1863.
The Germans of Wheeling ordered the "First West Virginia Artillery" to oppose the Confederacy and played a part in the initial boss to separate from Virginia. The Germans' culture influenced the city, such as their "German Singing Societies," the first of which began in 1855. Noted businesses of the era encompassed the Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company and steel concerns. As it grew, prosperous inhabitants assembled an region of fine housing around Wheeling Island, but slums also grew. As a result of the growth, an ordinance was passed regulating personal cesspools, including a ban on pipe communications with other homes and businesses unless offensive smells were properly trapped. With industry, Wheeling reached its peak of populace in 1930.
Capitalizing on its rich architectural heritage, Wheeling has worked to revive its chief street and tradition tourism activities near the Ohio River.
Wheeling is positioned at 40 4 13 N 80 41 55 W (40.070348, -80.698604). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.01 square miles (41.47 km2), of which 13.79 square miles (35.72 km2) is territory and 2.22 square miles (5.75 km2) is water. Wheeling is positioned in northern West Virginia, on what is known as the northern panhandle.
The region lies inside the ecoregion of the Western Allegheny Plateau. The town/city is directly athwart the river from the state of Ohio and only 11 miles (18 km) west of Pennsylvania.
It is a part of the Tri-State region of Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, which is generally alluded to as the Ohio River Valley Region or "The Ohio Valley".
Wheeling Creek flows through the city, and meets the Ohio River in downtown Wheeling.
The town/city is positioned both on the West Virginia side of the Ohio River, and on an island in the middle of the river called Wheeling Island.
Climate data for Wheeling, West Virginia See also: List of mayors of Wheeling, West Virginia Under West Virginia law, metros/cities may adopt the Manager-Mayor Plan.
The voted for mayor presides over meetings of the Wheeling City Council, which has six members voted for from geographic wards.
The current Mayor of Wheeling is Glenn Elliott, and the current City Manager of Wheeling is Robert Herron.
The town/city of Wheeling has a rich and varied history.
West Virginia Independence Hall was the site of the Wheeling Convention, two meetings held in 1861 that ultimately reversed Virginia's Ordinance of Secession.
Twenty-six counties in Virginia's north and west voted against secession from the Union and created the new state of West Virginia, which the United States quickly admitted.
Wheeling is home to Centre Market, formerly Wheeling's market home.
The first official memorial monument in the state of West Virginia, dedicated specifically to men killed in the Vietnam War, was dedicated in Wheeling, with full military honors, in a Memorial Day 1986 ceremony.
The monument was erected in front of the flagpole near the chief shelter of Bethlehem Community Park in the village of Bethlehem, just southeast of Wheeling.
Wheeling features a several municipal parks including Oglebay Resort & Conference Center and Wheeling Park.
The Wheeling Suspension Bridge, which was once the longest suspension bridge in the world, joins downtown Wheeling to Wheeling Island.
In October 2007 the City of Wheeling opened the state's first concrete skateboard park.
See also: Ohio County, West Virginia Education As elsewhere in West Virginia, K 12 schools are ordered at the county level of government.
The enhance school system, Ohio County Schools, comprises of 14 schools: nine elementary schools, four middle schools, which include Triadelphia Middle which has been impel for the blue ribbon school award; and the nationally recognized Wheeling Park High School.
Several parochial and private schools, including Wheeling Central Catholic High School and the Linsly School, are positioned in the city.
Wheeling is the core of college studies in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.
Wheeling Jesuit University, a private Jesuit college and the only Catholic college in the state of West Virginia, is positioned here. The chief campus of West Virginia Northern Community College has recently been expanding with centers in downtown Wheeling; it focuses on job training and improve development.
Also positioned inside close adjacency to the town/city are West Liberty University (formerly West Liberty State College), a four-year university, and private Bethany College, giving region residents a wide range of educational options.
Wheeling has a long tradition of live musical performance and radio broadcasting.
Opened in 1928, The Capitol was home to It's Wheeling Steel, a prominent radio program in the early forties featuring musical performances by workers at a small-town steel plant.
Wheeling is also home to the Victoria Theater, the earliest theater in West Virginia.
More recently, it has been the site for the "Wheeling Jamboree", a small-town initiative started in 2009 and modeled after the initial WWVA Jamboree (which changed its name in the 1960s to Jamboree U.S.A.).
Live music echoes from the amphitheatre at the Wheeling Heritage Port a several evenings per week from mid-Spring through late-Fall.
Held in close-by Belmont County, Ohio Jamboree In The Hills draws over 100,000 nation music fans to the Wheeling region every July.
In addition, the Oglebay Institute's Towngate Theatre in Center Wheeling has, for over 35 years, produced plays. Wheeling, known as Nail City is home to the Wheeling Nailers hockey team.
The Nailers play in the Wes - Banco Arena (formerly the Wheeling Civic Center), and participate in the North division, American Conference of the ECHL.
High school football and soccer are played at Wheeling Island Stadium.
Formerly home to the Ohio Valley Greyhounds, Wheeling became home to a second team in 2009. The team, known as the Wheeling Wildcats, played in the Continental Indoor Football League but closed after the 2009 season. Wheeling is also home to the command posts of the Mountain East Conference, a NCAA Division II conference that launched in the 2013 14 school year.
Wheeling Jesuit and West Liberty are both charter members of the new conference, an offshoot of the disbanding West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.
Wheeling is the home of Wheeling Island Hotel-Casino-Racetrack positioned on Wheeling Island.
See also: List of newspapers in West Virginia, List of airways broadcasts in West Virginia, and List of tv stations in West Virginia Due to its close adjacency to Pittsburgh, Wheeling is heavily influenced by that city's broadcast media outlets, which are easily received in the area.
Besides broadcast stations Wheeling's cable providers also carry Root Sports Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh-centric news/talk channel PCNC as its "home" sports and knowledge sources.
In addition to the Pittsburgh outlets, the Wheeling tv market is served by CBS partner WTRF-TV Channel 7, PBS partner W41 - AA Channel 41, and NBC partner WTOV-TV Channel 9 in close-by Steubenville, Ohio.
Wheeling is home to WWVA 1170 AM, the state's only 50,000-watt AM station that can be heard throughout the East Coast at evening.
The Wheeling region is the home of WDUQ-LP, a listener-supported commercial-free station, which also serves as the small-town Pacifica affiliate.
Wheeling also has a pupil-run airways broadcast, WPHP 91.9, directed by Wheeling Park High School pupils.
WPHP plays top 40 music and also covers all of the Wheeling Park Patriots' football and basketball games.
The town/city is home to The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register newspapers.
In Wheeling periodical is presented quarterly and covers society and affairs in the city. Two small-town websites, Weelunk and Dateline: Wheeling, serve as autonomous news sources for the city. The Fort Henry Bridge carries I-70, US 40, and US 250 athwart the Ohio River, Wheeling, West Virginia Interstate 70 and its spur Interstate 470 run through the town/city east-west and link it with suburban Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the east and Ohio to the west.
West Virginia Route 2 joins Wheeling with Moundsville to the south and Weirton to the north.
The historic Wheeling Suspension Bridge, instead of in 1849, which was part of National Road (see early pic.), now carries cars and light trucks as well as pedestrian traffic between downtown and Wheeling Island.
I-70 passes under Wheeling Hill through the Wheeling Tunnel.
Bus transit to points throughout North America is available from Wheeling through Greyhound Lines.
Regional transit through West Virginia and Eastern Ohio is provided by the East Ohio and Ohio Valley Regional Transit Authorities, which shares the Intermodal Transportation Center as its core for its Hub-and-Spoke routes throughout the area. Wheeling once directed streetcars from the 1880s to 1943 under the Wheeling Traction Company and Co-operative Transit Company.
The town/city is served by the Wheeling Ohio County Airport for general aviation and Pittsburgh International Airport for traveler service.
In the 1971 film "Fools' Parade" starring Jimmy Stewart and Kurt Russell, set in and around Marshall County, West Virginia amid the Great Depression, the character Junior Kilfong, played by Morgan Paull mentions that he has to get to Wheeling by midnight to sing on the radio.
In Season 2, Episode 11 of Family Ties, Alex and his friends go to Wheeling to jubilate his 18th birthday.
In Season 1 of The White Shadow, the episode "Bonus Baby" has the Wheeling Wheelers as the semi-pro team that Warren Coolidge was being shopped to by unscrupulous agent, Walter Preston.
In the 2005 film Walk the Line, Johnny Cash and June Carter performed at the Capital City Music Hall in downtown Wheeling while on tour.
Wheeling is alluded to in the episode "Howard and Millie" of The Andy Griffith Show, where the couple, along with Andy and Helen, travel by train to Wheeling to get married.
Wheeling is alluded to in an episode of The Waltons, called "The Deed", set in and around Schuyler, Virginia, when Richard Thomas' character "John Boy" travels 335 miles (539 km) to the 'Big City' of Wheeling in 1934.
Wheeling is alluded to in an episode of the sitcom Family Ties, set in Columbus, Ohio, when Michael J.
Keaton says, "let's go down to Wheeling, West Virginia," to drink.
In Season 2 of The West Wing, the episode "In This White House" names Wheeling as a locale where two would-be assassins purchased firearms in their mission to kill the show's President, Josiah Bartlett.
A West Virginia centric episode of Murder, She Wrote, "Coal Miner's Slaughter", has Megan Mullally's character passing the bar exam in Wheeling.
"Wheeling, West Virginia" was a hit song for Neil Sedaka in 1970.
"Eliza and the House that Jack Built", a novel by Hungarian writer Albert Wass, takes place in the Wheeling area, around the end of the 19th century.
Fort Wheeling, a comics series by the Italian comics author Hugo Pratt, deals with affairs taking place in the Wheeling region during the American Revolution.
In Criminal Minds Season 9 Episode 20, called "Blood Relations" (directed by Matthew Gray Gubler), Wheeling was the setting for the crimes involving feuding families, being investigated by the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit.
History of Wheeling City and Ohio County, West Virginia and Representative Citizens.
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"Trolleys & Trains, Wheeling, WV - Wheeling Area Genealogical Society".
See also: Bibliography of the history of Wheeling, West Virginia Wheeling's Gambling History to 1976.
Wheeling: Nail City Publishing, 1997.
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