Wood County, West Virginia (Images of America) by Betty Leavengood

By Betty Leavengood

Nestled in the middle of the Mid-Ohio Valley alongside the Ohio River, wooden County exists as certainly one of West Virginia's so much populous components. a different heritage drives ahead the county's different groups, and ultra-modern citizens get pleasure from a diversified palette of possibilities provided via either metropolitan facilities and smaller, extra rural hamlets. wooden County, West Virginia honors an fundamental bankruptcy of The Mountain State's storied previous, providing readers the chance to fulfill quite a few the county's personalities, together with the wealthy-and later infamous-Irish immigrant Harman Blennerhassett, the commercial magnates who arrived with the harvesting of oil and common gasoline, or even a few daily contributors. greater than 2 hundred classic images additionally invite readers to event the county's defining moments, similar to the expansion of the Volcano oil box after the warfare among the States, in addition to the county's tragedies, equivalent to the 1909 cave in of Parkersburg's water tanks on Quincy Hill, which swept a newly married couple to their deaths. able to having fun with the wealthy occasions and of overcoming the tough ones, wooden Countians have confirmed themselves repeatedly because its founding in 1799. This quantity is a becoming tribute to the energy and should of all who've referred to as wooden County home.

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