The Sad Story of Robert Lee Ritz In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast […]
Storytelling in Marshall County
Through a partnership with the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Honors students of Christina Fisanick, Associate Professor of English at California University of Pennsylvania, have learned to create […]
Music in the Air: Wheeling’s 1906 Saengerfest Revisited
Germantown The Wheeling of one hundred ten years ago was a robust German town, with a German language newspaper, mandatory German language classes in many schools, and German language services […]
The Birth of a Friendly City
180 Years of Cityhood On this day 180 years ago — March 11, 1836 — the town of Wheeling, Virginia was made the city of Wheeling, Virginia by an Act of […]
Advertising with Style
Victorian Trade Cards of Wheeling In the late Victorian Era, businesses advertised goods and services with unapologetic flair. Trade cards, which originated with 18th century French and English tradesmen, were particularly stylish. […]
The Wheeling Renaissance
An Archiving Wheeling partnership with Weelunk.com. “As Great a City as its Citizens Want it to Be” If you had tuned into Wheeling’s WTRF television station fifty years ago, you […]
Avalon on the Ohio
Wheeling’s Short-Lived Coney Island Amusement Park by Kate Quinn and Seán Duffy An Archiving Wheeling Partnership with Weelunk. For more great Wheeling stories visit www.weelunk.com. “Avalon will always be there for all men […]
Glass Elephants, Revolvers, and Bulldogs
The Whimsical World of North Wheeling Glass A historically important glass manufacturing center, around the turn of the 20th century, Wheeling and the surrounding Ohio Valley was teeming with active firms like […]
Wheeling: Birthplace of the American Steamboat
OUR CITY HAS A NEW HISTORICAL HIGHWAY MARKER Riverboat historians consider Wheeling the “Birthplace of the American Steamboat”, and this new West Virginia Historical Highway Marker recently installed at Sixteenth […]
A Statuesque Figure
Francis Pierpont and the Birth of West Virginia Following the Ordinance of Secession by the state of Virginia in April, 1861, a series of resolutions were adopted in loyal western […]
