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Wheeling, West Virginia

City in WV - mostly in Ohio County, with a small part in Marshall County. County seat of Ohio County. Wheeling considered part of Pittsburgh PA Tri-State area and is principal city of the Wheeling Metropolitan Area. 2000 census population was 31,419 - estimated at 29,639 in 2005.

The city was first claimed by Europeans in 1769 and settled the next year. It was named Zanesburg after Ebenezer Zane, the first settler. The legislature established the town in 1795 as Wheeling. It was incorporated as a town in 1805, and as a city in 1836. When Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861, Wheeling was made the site of a pro-Union provisional government of Virginia. In 1863 the Wheeling...

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