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The fire caused enough damage to keep the facility closed for five years and made it necessary for the property to be rebuilt. Archiving Wheeling features stories and images about these archival and special collection. The unusual combination of commercial, residential and institutional uses has been retained for more than 100 years together with the diverse makeup of the residents.

Historic Victorian-style houses in Wheeling, W. The Wellsburg Clinic, located at 1423 Commerce St. Please read the Archives' listing of for more details on research correspondence. A bridge over the river connected it to and western areas.

Wheeling Hospital

Colonel Ebenezer Zane founded Wheeling in 1769. The town grew up around Fort Henry, which was built by Captain Crawford and a company of men from Fort Dunmore, Virginia, in 1774. By the early 1880s, trade along the Ohio River made Wheeling, Virginia, a popular frontier town. National Road was the most important avenue of commerce and, as such, Wheeling became known as the gateway to the west. Wheeling was established as a town in 1795 and incorporated in 1836 through a Charter granted by the Virginia Assembly. Wheeling was loyal to the Federal Government during the Civil War and the State of West Virginia was born here. The first convention of the delegates from the loyal counties of northwestern Virginia met in Wheeling on May 13, 1861, and inaugurated the movement which finally resulted in the wheeling virginia history of West Virginia into the Union as a state on June 20, 1863. Wheeling, West Virginia, was the capital of the newly formed state from 1863 to 1870 when it was moved to Charleston. In 1875, the seat of the wheeling virginia history was brought back to Wheeling and remained until 1885, again being transferred to Charleston where it has since remained. In the last decades of the 19th century, iron and steel mills developed on the banks of the Ohio River. Other industries thrived, too, including glass works and cigar factories. Through an active industrial economy and large working population, Wheeling became the richest city per capita in America at the end of the 19th century. For more about our heritage, please visit one of private sector partners, Wheeling National Heritage Area Corporation at.

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. In 1787, the United States gave Virginia this portion of lands west of the Appalachians, and some to Pennsylvania at its western edge, to settle their claims. The Germans' culture influenced the city, such as their German Singing Societies, the first of which began in 1855. Wheeling, , seat of Ohio county, in the northern panhandle of , U. Air transportation The city is served by the for and for. Although Virginia joined the Confederacy in April 1861, the western part of the state remained loyal to the Union and began the process of separation. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79. It served as the provisional capital of the 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. Local men, later joined by recruits from Fort Shepherd in Elm Grove and Fort Holliday, defended the fort. Bus transportation Bus transportation to points throughout North America is available from Wheeling through.