Parkersburg, West Virginia - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 33,099 people, 14,467 households, and 8,767 families residing in the city. In 2006 the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Parkersburg's population had decreased 4.4% to 31,755. The population density

Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans...

was 2,800.5 people per square mile (1,081.2/km²). There were 16,100 housing units at an average density of 1,362.2 per square mile (525.9/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 96.36% White, 1.75% African American, 0.42% Native American, 0.20% Asian, 0.05% Pacific Islander, 0.21% from other races, and 1.00% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.81% of the population.
There were 14,467 households out of which 25.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.2% were married couples

Marriage

Marriage is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found...

living together, 13.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.4% were non-families. 34.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 15.1% have someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.83.

In the city the population was spread out with 21.2% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 27.1% from 25 to 44, 23.7% from 45 to 64, and 18.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 40 years. For every 100 females there were 87.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 83.9 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $21,120, and the median income for a family was $29,731. Males had a median income of $28,320 versus $18,203 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

Per capita income or income per person is a measure of mean income within an economic aggregate, such as a country or city. It is calculated by taking a measure of all sources of income in the aggregate and dividing it by the total population...

for the city was $15,820. About 23.3% of families and 21.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 35.2% of those under the age of 18 and 12.5% of those 65 and older.

Transportation

Parkersburg is served by Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport
Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport
Mid-Ohio Valley Regional Airport , also known as Wood County Airport or Gill Robb Wilson Field, is a public airport located six miles northeast of the central business district of Parkersburg, a city in Wood County, West Virginia, USA...

, with 3 flights a day Monday through Friday from Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport
Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is a public airport located nine miles southwest of the central business district of Cleveland, a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. The airport lies just within the city limits of Cleveland...

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Parkersburg is served by two major routes, Interstate 77
Interstate 77
Interstate 77 is an Interstate Highway in the eastern United States. It traverses diverse terrain, from the mountainous state of West Virginia to the rolling farmlands of North Carolina and Ohio. It largely supplants the old U.S...

and US 50. Other routes through the city includes WV 2, 14, 68, 95, and 618.

North Parkersburg (North Side)

Beechwood, Downtown, Fairview Heights, Granada Hills, Julia-Ann Square

Julia-Ann Square Historic District

The Julia-Ann Square Historic District, is a national historic district located at Parkersburg, Wood County, West Virginia. It is to the west of the Avery Street Historic District. It encompasses all houses on Ann and Juliana Streets from Riverview Cemetery to 9th Street. There are 116 contributing...

, Meadowcrest, Oakwood Estates, Quincy Hill, Riverside, Woodland Park, North End, Worthington, East End

South Parkersburg (South Side)

The southern part of the City of Parkersburg, South Parkersburg was a separate city until it became part of Parkersburg in 1950.
More rural parts of Wood County include the Tri-C areas of Washington, Lubeck, Mineral Wells, and Blennerhassett to the Southwest.

Media

The Parkersburg News and Parkersburg Sentinel were the city's two major daily newspapers until 2009 when they combined to form one daily edition, The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel is the primary newspaper in Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States. It was formed by the merger of the previously separate morning News and afternoon Sentinel on April 25, 2009. The newspaper is generally liberal in outlook.- References :...

. The same company also publishes the Marietta A.M. and Graffiti, West Virginia's alternative news magazine.

There are many radio stations broadcasting from Parkersburg, including 106.1 Z106 (WRZZ),102.1 The River (WRVB), U.S. 107 WNUS, MIX 100 (WDMX), V96.9 (WVVV), WXIL, Froggy 99.1, and 103.1 The Bear.

WTAP, the local NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

affiliate, is the main local television station.

Higher education

Mountain State College, a private, for-profit, two-year college, is located in the city.
West Virginia University at Parkersburg
West Virginia University at Parkersburg
West Virginia University at Parkersburg is a public college located in Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States. It is a stand-alone college with its own board of governors and degree granting authority, separate from WVU. Conceived as a community college to serve seven counties in west central...

, a public college, is located on the outskirts of the city.
Ohio Valley University
Ohio Valley University
Ohio Valley University is a private, four-year Christian college and is affiliated with the Churches of Christ. It is located between the western towns of Parkersburg and Vienna in the State of West Virginia in the United States....

is located nearby in Vienna
Vienna, West Virginia
Vienna is a city in Wood County, West Virginia, along the Ohio River. It is a suburb of Parkersburg. The population was 10,749 at the 2010 census. It is the third largest city by population in the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna Metropolitan Statistical Area. Vienna was incorporated in 1935, and was...

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High schools

Parkersburg is the home of the Parkersburg High School

Parkersburg High School

Parkersburg High School is a secondary school located in Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States, that serves grades nine through twelve and is part of the Wood County School District...

Big Reds, Parkersburg South High School

Parkersburg South High School

Parkersburg South High School in Parkersburg, West Virginia, United States serves grades 9 through 12, and is part of the Wood County School District....

Patriots, and the Parkersburg Catholic High School Crusaders.

Middle schools

Middle schools include Van Devender, Edison, and Hamilton.

Jackson Middle School is located in Vienna and although having a Parkersburg mailing address, Blennerhassett Junior High School

Blennerhassett Junior High School

Blennerhassett Middle School is a West Virginia School of Excellence in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Part of Wood County Schools, Blennerhassett serves 700 students in grades 6-8. The principal is Mr. Jim Hostottle and the Vice Principal is Mr. Jack Waguman...

, now also adopting the "middle school" designation.

Museums

Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History
Henry Cooper Log Cabin Museum
Oil and Gas Museum
Sumnerite African-American History Museum
The Artcraft Studio
Veterans Museum of Mid-Ohio Valley

Parks

Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park
Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park
Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park is a state park located on Blennerhassett Island, a small island in the Ohio River, located in Wood County, West Virginia, USA. The property was the site of a Palladian mansion owned by Harman Blennerhassett, a participant in some of the alleged...
Bicentennial Park
Corning Park
Point Park
Southwood Park
Quincy Park
City Park
Johnson T. Janes Park
Friendship Park
Fort Boreman Historical Park
Mountwood Park
Fries Park
Fries Park
One of Wood County, West Virginia's most popular parks, Fries Park, was established in Marrtown, just southwest of downtown Parkersburg, in 1892 by Gustavus Louis "Gusty" Fries .-Opening of park:From a Parkersburg newspaper, May 6, 1893:...

Sports

The Wood County Ravens, a semi-professional football team, is based in the city. The Ravens are a part of the Mountain State Football League.

Parkersburg was home to the Ohio Valley Redcoats

Ohio Valley Redcoats

The Ohio Valley Redcoats are a minor league baseball team in the independent Frontier League which currently has suspended operations while in search of a new stadium.-Team history:...

, a minor league baseball team, until 1998. The city is in negotiations to bring professional baseball back to Parkersburg.

In 2008, the city and its three high schools placed second in ESPN

ESPN

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's TitleTown USA competition.

"We don't have a lot of people, nor any professional sports teams, but here is a stat for you. AAA is the highest level that a high school can compete at in W.Va. Both schools mentioned hereafter are AAA schools. In Parkersburg, we have accumulated 192 overall state championships in 103 years with 183 if those coming since 1950. Parkersburg High School alone has 137 championships in its 103 years of existence. There is also another AAA school in Parkersburg called Parkersburg South High School, who, by the way, has 38 titles in 40 years. Not to be outdone Parkersburg Catholic, a single A school, has 17 state titles of its own. Not bad considering that there are 136 high school teams in West Virginia with 38 in AAA. We may not have a pro sports team, but in high school sports, Parkersburg as a whole is pretty dominant" as written in an article on espn.com.

Film and television

The Steven Soderbergh
Steven Soderbergh
Steven Andrew Soderbergh is an American film producer, screenwriter, cinematographer, editor, and an Academy Award-winning film director. He is best known for directing commercial Hollywood films like Erin Brockovich, Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven, but he has also directed smaller less...

film Bubble
Bubble (film)
Bubble is a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. It was shot on high-definition video and was made for a relatively small budget of $1.6 million. It also featured some unusual production aspects.In traditional terms, the movie has no script...

, released in 2006, was filmed in Parkersburg and neighboring Belpre, Ohio
Belpre, Ohio
Belpre is a city in Washington County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. It is part of the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 6,441 at the 2010 census....

, using an all-local cast.
Other films shot in the city are Salvage
Salvage (film)
Salvage is a 2006 horror film by the Crook Brothers. It was an official selection of the 2006 Sundance Festival. According to the directors' commentary, the film was shot for around $25,000...

and The Barbecue.
Parkersburg was the set for the 1962 television series It's a Man's World
It's a Man's World (TV series)
It's a Man's World is a 19-episode comedy/drama television series centered on four young men who live in a houseboat called the Elephant, which is moored at an Ohio River town named Cordella, in Ohio...

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The city was featured in a 1989 episode of Rescue 911
Rescue 911
Rescue 911 is an informational reality-based television series, hosted by William Shatner. Originally intended to be only a set of three TV specials, Rescue 911 was picked up by CBS for the 1989 fall season after two specials aired on April 18, 1989 and May 9, 1989...

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Parkersburg was mentioned in the novel and the classic film Night of the Hunter. In Davis Grubb
Davis Grubb
Davis Grubb was an American novelist and short story writer.-Biography:Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, Grubb wanted to combine his creative skills as a painter with writing and as such attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...

's 1953 novel Parkersburg was the town where the murderous preacher Harry Powell was caught for car theft and sent to prison; it was the worldly town that Rachel Cooper (Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
Lillian Diana Gish was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987....

in the film) avoided because she'd been short-changed there; and finally it was the home of the state troopers who came to arrest Powell for murder. In the book and in the 1955 film version Powell (Robert Mitchum
Robert Mitchum
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum was an American film actor, author, composer and singer and is #23 on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest male American screen legends of all time...

) called Parkersburg "One of them Sodoms on the Ohio River," a reference to its reputation as a rough and tumble river town in the 19th and early 20th century. Night of the Hunter, which took place in the early 1930s, is generally considered the greatest West Virginia novel.

Notable natives and residents

Allen Appel
Allen Appel
Allen Appel is an American novelist best known for his series about time traveler Alex Balfour. In the series, fictional characters are interwoven with actual historical people and events....

is a novelist best known for his series about time traveler Alex Balfour.
Eddie Bailes was a locally popular country singer whose "Love Isn't Love" was a small 1976 chart hit.
William M. Batten was a CEO of J.C. Penny and was chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from 1976 to 1981.
Harman Blennerhassett
Harman Blennerhassett
Harman Blennerhassett was an Irish-American lawyer, born in Castle Conway in County Kerry, Ireland to Conway Blennerhassett and Elizabeth Lacy. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and in 1790 was called to the Irish bar...

, an ally of Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr
Aaron Burr, Jr. was an important political figure in the early history of the United States of America. After serving as a Continental Army officer in the Revolutionary War, Burr became a successful lawyer and politician...

and owner of Blennerhasset Island, was arrested for treason by President Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...

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Arthur I. Boreman
Arthur I. Boreman
Arthur Inghram Boreman was the first Governor of the U.S. state of West Virginia and a United States Senator.-Biography:...

was the first governor of West Virginia.
Ed Catmull, President, Walt Disney Animation Studios & Pixar Animation Studios

Jim Dawson
Jim Dawson
Jim Dawson is a Hollywood, California-based author and self-proclaimed "fartologist" who has written three books about farting, including the best-selling 'Who Cut the Cheese?'-Biography:...

has written a dozen books on American culture, particularly early rock 'n' roll, rhythm and blues, and dirty slang. He also wrote the best-selling 1999 book Who Cut the Cheese?.
Diana DeRose was the lead vocalist of The Rose Garden
The Rose Garden (band)
The Rose Garden was an American folk rock musical group from Los Angeles, California which was active in 1967 and 1968.The members were Diana DeRose on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, John Noreen on 12-string guitar and backup vocal, James Groshong on lead vocal and guitar, William Fleming on bass...

, whose 1967 recording "Next Plane to London" was a national Top 10 hit.
Paul Dooley
Paul Dooley
-Personal life:Dooley was born Paul Dooley Brown in Parkersburg, West Virginia, the son of Ruth Irene , a homemaker, and Peter James Brown, a factory worker. Dooley was a cartoonist as a youth and drew a strip for a local paper in Parkersburg. He joined the Navy before discovering acting while at...

is a longtime Hollywood character actor with major roles in Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles
Sixteen Candles is a 1984 American film starring Molly Ringwald, Michael Schoeffling and Anthony Michael Hall. It was written and directed by John Hughes.- Plot :...

, Breaking Away
Breaking Away
Breaking Away is a 1979 American film. A coming of age story, it follows a group of four male teenagers in Bloomington, Indiana, who have recently graduated from high school. It stars Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern , Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie and Paul Dooley...

and Popeye
Popeye
Popeye the Sailor is a cartoon fictional character created by Elzie Crisler Segar, who has appeared in comic strips and animated cartoons in the cinema as well as on television. He first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929...

, among others.
James Dukas was a New York-based stage actor who played character roles between 1959 and 2000 in such films as The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror
The Amityville Horror: A True Story is a book by Jay Anson, published in September 1977. It is also the basis of a series of films released between 1979 and 2005...

, Brubaker
Brubaker
Brubaker is an American 1980 film about a prison in distress and the Warden Henry Brubaker who attempts to reform the system....

and Ironweed
Ironweed (film)
Ironweed is a 1987 film directed by Argentine-born Brazilian Héctor Babenco.The picture is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same title by William Kennedy and concerns the relationship of a homeless couple: Francis, an alcoholic, and Helen, a terminally ill woman during the Great...

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Paul Goldsmith
Paul Goldsmith
Paul Goldsmith is a motorcycle Hall of Famer, Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee and former USAC and NASCAR driver.- Motorcycle career :...

is a 1999 inductee in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame
Motorcycle Hall of Fame
The Motorcycle Hall of Fame Museum is an offshoot of the American Motorcyclist Association that recognizes individuals who have contributed to motorcycle sport, motorcycle construction and motorcycling in general. It displays motorcycles and riding gear and memoribilia. The museum is located in...
Linda Goodman
Linda Goodman
Mary Alice Kemery popularly known as Linda Goodman was a New York Times bestselling American astrologer and poet.-Early life and background:...

wrote several best-selling books on astrology, including Sun Signs.
Tommy Hanlon Jr
Tommy Hanlon Jr
Tommy Hanlon Jr was an American-born Australian media personality, notable for his early television appearances as host of It Could Be You....

was a well-known TV announcer in Australia; he emigrated there in the 1960s.
Dick "Doc" Hoblitzell (1888–1962) was an outfielder for the Cincinnati Redlegs (1908–1914) and Boston Red Sox
Boston Red Sox
The Boston Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts, and a member of Major League Baseball’s American League Eastern Division. Founded in as one of the American League's eight charter franchises, the Red Sox's home ballpark has been Fenway Park since . The "Red Sox"...

(1915–1916). He played in the 1916 World Series.
Homer A. Holt
Homer A. Holt (justice)
Homer A. Holt was a West Virginia lawyer and justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals....

, (1831–1998), was a justice of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Cyrus Cotton "Cy" Hungerford was a political cartoonist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for nearly half a century, until he retired in the 1970s; he got his start at the Parkersburg Sentinel.
Jacob B. Jackson
Jacob B. Jackson
Jacob Beeson Jackson was the sixth Governor of West Virginia from 1881 to 1885. In 1855, he married Maria Willard....

was the governor of West Virginia from 1881 to 1885.
Mabel Mackey was a colorful mid-20th-century madam, known for her red hair and buckskin jackets, who was infamous up and down the Ohio Valley until her death in the early 1960s. Her ghost is said to haunt the Wood County Courthouse.
Earle "Greasy" Neale (1891–1973) was an early 20th-century football star inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame in 1969. He was also an outfielder for the Cincinnati Redlegs in 1919 when the team played the Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...

in the infamous "Black Sox" World Series.
Gary Null
Gary Null
Gary Michael Null is an American talk radio host and author on alternative and complementary medicine and nutrition. On his talk radio show and in his books and self-produced movies, Null has criticized the medical community, promoted a range of alternative cancer treatments and dietary...

is a nationally-syndicated nutritionist who has written more than a dozen books and appeared regularly on PBS.
Devon Odessa
Devon Odessa
Devon Odessa is an American actress and film producer most famous for her role as Sharon Cherski on My So-Called Life....

is an American actress and film producer.
Patsy Ramsey
Patsy Ramsey
Patricia Ann "Patsy" Ramsey was the mother of JonBenét Ramsey, a 6-year-old American beauty pageant contestant who was murdered on December 25, 1996.-Background:...

was a Miss West Virginia
Miss West Virginia
The Miss West Virginia competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of West Virginia in the Miss America pageant.- Winners :- External links :*...

and the mother of murder victim JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Ramsey
JonBenét Patricia Ramsey was an American child beauty pageant contestant who was murdered in her home in Boulder, Colorado, in 1996. The six-year-old's body was found in the basement of the family home nearly eight hours after she was reported missing. She had been struck on the head and strangled...

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Scenes from a Movie
Scenes from a Movie
-History:Scenes from a Movie members Tony Bush and Jon Ewing were friends in high school, but Ewing attended the University of Charleston while Bush went to college at Bowling Green. Ewing, together with guitarist Luke Del Papa, then convinced Bush to drop out of school, and the group expanded to a...

band members
Freddie Scott
Freddie Scott
Freddie Scott was an American soul singer and songwriter. His biggest hits were "Hey, Girl", a top ten US pop hit in 1963, and "Are You Lonely For Me", a no.1 hit on the R&B chart in early 1967.-Life and career:...

was an R&B vocalist who recorded the 1963 Top 10 hit "Hey Girl
Hey Girl (Freddie Scott song)
"Hey Girl" is a song written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King, first recorded by Freddie Scott in 1963. It became a hit, peaking at number ten on both the Billboard Pop Singles and R&B charts. In 1966, the Righteous Brothers covered this song on their Soul & Inspiration album from Verve Records...

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Susan Sheppard has written several books about hauntings, astrology and the paranormal (as well as poetry published internationally) and regularly leads "haunted tours" of Parkersburg's old neighborhoods.
Songwriter Arlos Smith has written two number-one country music hits: "Home to You" for John Michael Montgomery
John Michael Montgomery
John Michael Montgomery is an American country music artist. He has produced more than thirty singles on the Billboard country charts, including two of Billboard’s Number One country singles of the year: "I Swear" and "Sold "...

(2000) and "Mayberry" for Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts
Rascal Flatts is an American country music band that originated in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. Since its inception, Rascal Flatts has been composed of three members: Gary LeVox , Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney...

(2004).
William E. Stevenson
William E. Stevenson
William Erskine Stevenson was an American cabinet-maker, farmer, and Republican politician from Parkersburg, West Virginia. He was the third Governor of West Virginia from 1869 until 1871....

was governor of West Virginia from 1869 to 1871.
Zachary E. Stubbs aka Zacarias
Zacarias
Zacarias is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 was 1,940 and the area is 318.8 km²....

Underground Hip Hop Artist
Nick Swisher
Nick Swisher
Nicholas Thompson "Nick" Swisher is an outfielder for the New York Yankees. Swisher is a switch hitter who throws left-handed....

is an outfielder and first-baseman for the New York Yankees
New York Yankees
The New York Yankees are a professional baseball team based in the The Bronx, New York. They compete in Major League Baseball in the American League's East Division...

who played in the 2009 World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies
Philadelphia Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies are a Major League Baseball team. They are the oldest continuous, one-name, one-city franchise in all of professional American sports, dating to 1883. The Phillies are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League...

. He played formerly for the Oakland A's and the Chicago White Sox
Chicago White Sox
The Chicago White Sox are a Major League Baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois.The White Sox play in the American League's Central Division. Since , the White Sox have played in U.S. Cellular Field, which was originally called New Comiskey Park and nicknamed The Cell by local fans...

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Steve Swisher
Steve Swisher
Steven Eugene Swisher is a former Major League Baseball catcher who played for the Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, and San Diego Padres from 1974 to 1982. Swisher was elected to the 1976 National League All-Star team with the Cubs but did not play in the game...

, father of Nick Swisher, is a former major league baseball catcher who played for the Chicago Cubs
Chicago Cubs
The Chicago Cubs are a professional baseball team located in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of Major League Baseball's National League. They are one of two Major League clubs based in Chicago . The Cubs are also one of the two remaining charter members of the National...

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Peter G. Van Winkle
Peter G. Van Winkle
Peter Godwin Van Winkle was a United States Senator from West Virginia.Born in New York City, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Parkersburg, Virginia in 1835...

, one of West Virginia's first U.S. senators, cast the deciding vote that prevented the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

; John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

wrote a chapter about Van Winkle in his book Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage
Profiles in Courage is a 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning biography describing acts of bravery and integrity by eight United States Senators throughout the Senate's history. The book profiles senators who crossed party lines and/or defied the public opinion of their constituents to do what they felt was...

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Richard Watts, Jr.
Richard Watts, Jr.
Richard Watts, Jr. was an American theatre critic.Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, Watts was educated at Columbia University. He began his writing career as the film critic for the New York Herald Tribune before assuming the post of the newspaper's drama critic in 1936.After spending World War...

was a film critic for the New York Herald Tribune
New York Herald Tribune
The New York Herald Tribune was a daily newspaper created in 1924 when the New York Tribune acquired the New York Herald.Other predecessors, which had earlier merged into the New York Tribune, included the original The New Yorker newsweekly , and the Whig Party's Log Cabin.The paper was home to...
H. T. Webster was the early 20th-century cartoonist who created Caspar Milquetoast
Caspar Milquetoast
Caspar Milquetoast was a comic strip character created by H. T. Webster for his cartoon series, The Timid Soul. In 1912, Webster drew a daily panel for the New York Tribune, under a variety of titles—Our Boyhood Ambitions, Life's Darkest Moment, The Unseen Audience...
Albert B. White
Albert B. White
Albert Blakeslee White was the 11th Governor of West Virginia from 1901 to 1905.White was educated in the public schools of Columbus, Ohio. In 1878, he graduated from Marietta College. In 1879, he married Agnes Ward...

was governor of West Virginia from 1901 to 1905.
Gill Robb Wilson
Gill Robb Wilson
Gill Robb Wilson was an American pilot, Presbyterian minister, and military advocate.-Early life:Wilson was born in Clarion County, Pennsylvania to the Rev. Gill Irwin Wilson and Amanda E...

was a local aviator for whom Parkersburg's airfield is named.
Glenn Wilson was a local television pioneer and a long-time news reporter for WTAP-TV
WTAP-TV
WTAP-TV is the NBC-affiliated television station for the Mid-Ohio Valley licensed to Parkersburg, West Virginia. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 49 from a transmitter in Independence Township, Ohio. The station can also be seen on Suddenlink channel 4 and CAS Cable...
Zao is a band formed in Parkersburg, now based out of Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Greensburg is a city in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States, and a part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area. The city is named after Nathanael Greene, a major general of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War...
Deron Williams
Deron Williams
Deron Michael Williams , nicknamed D-Will, is an American basketball player currently with the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association . Williams has also played for the Utah Jazz of the NBA and Beşiktaş of the Turkish Basketball League...

starting point guard for the New Jersey Nets
New Jersey Nets
The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...

of the NBA

External links

Parkersburg's website
Parkersburg Skate Plaza Foundation's website
Parkersburg, West Virginia: A Vintage Portrait
Greater Parkersburg Tourism
WTAP News (local NBC affiliate)
The Parkersburg News (local newspaper)
Parkersburg Police
Parkersburg Fire
http://www.electricearl.com/parkersburg Detailed history; 1,000 vintage photos
http://www.electricearl.com/dawson/rosegarden.html Detailed history of Diana DeRose's hitmaking rock group

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