The Capitol Theatre (formerly the Capitol Music Hall) is the largest theatre in West Virginia and a landmark building in the national historic district...
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Wheeling is a city in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located almost entirely in Ohio County, of which it is the county seat, it lies along the Ohio...
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Opry. The Jamboree originated in 1933 in Wheeling, West Virginia on WWVA, the first radio station in West Virginia and a 50,000-watt clear-channel station...
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City Capitol Theater (Olympia), Washington Capitol Theatre (Yakima, Washington), NRHP-listed Capitol Theatre (Wheeling, West Virginia) Capitol Theater...
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following is a timeline of the history of the city of Wheeling, West Virginia, US. 1769 – Wheeling founded by Ebenezer Zane. 1774 – Fort Fincastle built...
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February 3, 1865. West Virginia's northern panhandle extends adjacent to Pennsylvania and Ohio to form a tristate area, with Wheeling, Weirton, and Morgantown...
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Charles W. Bates (category People from Wheeling, West Virginia)
Cadiz High School, 440 E Market St, Cadiz, Ohio Capitol Theatre, 1015 Main St, Wheeling, West Virginia 1929 Bridgeport High School, W Bennett St, Bridgeport...
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8,046; Wheeling was not considered. Charleston won, and eight years later the first state capitol building was opened there. The West Virginia Historical...
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Slim Lehart (category Musicians from Wheeling, West Virginia)
a star bearing his name outside of the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling. Lehart is a nominee for the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame. Richard Edmond Hartley...
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Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district includes 205 contributing buildings in the central business district of Wheeling. It includes the site...
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C. C. Kemble (category People from Wheeling, West Virginia)
Market St., Wheeling, West Virginia. Demolished. 1880 - West Virginia State Capitol, Capitol, Lee, & Washington Sts., Charleston, West Virginia. Burned 1921...
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The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra is a regional orchestra based in Wheeling, West Virginia. Since its founding in 1929, the orchestra has performed at the...
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County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 18,773 at the 2020 census, making Martinsburg the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia...
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John Corbett (category Musicians from Wheeling, West Virginia)
45 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. Corbett was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S. He grew up in an apartment block near the Ohio River with...
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Joyce DeWitt (category Actors from Wheeling, West Virginia)
Company from 1977 to 1984. Joyce DeWitt was born April 23, 1949, in Wheeling, West Virginia, and grew up in Speedway, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis. She...
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David McKinley (category Politicians from Wheeling, West Virginia)
historic significance in West Virginia communities, such as the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling. McKinley was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates from...
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in the 1980 film Caddyshack as Mrs. Smails. Kibbee was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. She was the niece of actor Guy Kibbee. In 1951, Kibbee established...
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instead began the Wheeling Convention that month, which organized a government loyal to the Union and led to the separation of West Virginia as a new state...
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bulk of West Virginia's capital city, Charleston. The first site considered was near Laidley Field, next to the West Virginia State Capitol. This was...
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Virginia Rosie the Riveter Project West Virginia Route 2 and I-68 Authority West Virginia State Capitol Wheeling, West Virginia, state capital 1863-1870 and...
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A Christmas Tree Miracle (category Films shot in West Virginia)
farm in Belmont, Ohio and in the Wheeling, West Virginia area. The film premiered at the Capitol Theatre in Wheeling in December 2013, coinciding with...
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letters were transported by these boaters to Fort Henry (present-day Wheeling, West Virginia), and Fort Pitt (present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania). According...
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(Beckley) Ogden Newspapers (Wheeling) Service Pump & Supply (Huntington) Tudor's Biscuit World (Huntington) West Virginia MetroNews (Charleston) Woodcraft...
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U.S. Route 40 (section West Virginia)
Bridgeport. The highways travel concurrently to Wheeling, West Virginia. West Virginia I-70 / US 250 in Wheeling Pennsylvania US 19 in Washington. The highways...
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redirected to Wheeling, West Virginia, which at the time was still part of Virginia. On August 16, 1849, he urged the Supreme Court to enjoin Wheeling and Belmont...
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WBBD (category Radio stations in West Virginia)
station licensed to Wheeling, West Virginia, United States, carrying a sports format. Owned by iHeartMedia, WBBD serves both the Wheeling metropolitan area...
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Confederate States of America (section Virginia)
deposits of coal and iron. Richmond, Virginia, was chosen for the interim capital at the Virginia State Capitol. The move was used by Vice President Stephens...
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Methodist Church, Bolivar, NY Leow's Rochester Theatre, Rochester, New York Capitol Theater, Wheeling, West Virginia Roosevelt Theater 887 Broadway (4/18), Buffalo...
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States, commencing the tour at the Shubert Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, and ending the tour at the Moore Theatre in Seattle, Washington. In November 2018...
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Zenos Frudakis (category People from Wheeling, West Virginia)
in Northwestern Indiana, with the exception of several years in Wheeling, West Virginia. As a child, Frudakis first began to sculpt under the family's...
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