Walking+Tours

Wheeling has a long and colorful history. There are two ways to approach it - by walking or driving street by street, or by looking at types of structures, periods of history or other themes. Here is the beginning of a series of thematic lists of worthwhile sights. These are not close enough for walking tours, but some are and will be clumped together later.

Pre-Civil War Wheeling
1798: Shepherd Hall 1817: Elm Grove Stone Bridge 1821-5: First Presbyterian Church ~1828: [|Old stone tavern] on National Road in Elm Grove. Milton (1943), p. 24 1831: Phillips House 1837: Church of God & Saints of Christ 1939: 629 Main Dunbar House 1842: Peninsula Cemetery 1846: 742 Main 1848: Charles Russell House 1849: Wheeling Suspension Bridge ~1849: 847 Main - Sweeney Mansion pre-1850: Jacob Rhodes House 1850: Isaac Irwin House - 201 North Front Street, Wheeling Island 1853: Centre Market

Civil War Wheeling
1854: Custom House - Independence Hall 1862: Colvig Building 1864: Zinn Building (1001 Main St) ~1865: Mount de Chantal main building

Industrial Wheeling
1852: LaBelle Ironworks

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