History+Links

=History Links=

Here is a growing list of links to history of the Wheeling area. In time each of these will be tied to a page about the place where the history happened. Most of these are from LOC - Library of Congress. For now, this is a repository - add some links yourself. 1182639734

Joseph L. Wilde
Chuck Julian found and had scanned this little known book. He also provided this biographical information from the Bethany College archivist:
 * [[image:Wilde-cover.jpg]]||//History of Wheeling During the Past Forty Years// - (ND, 1887 or later)

//A superb account by Wilde, who begins this history in January 1837, when he arrived in Wheeling. Wilde, who is not listed in the 1839 city directory (which itself contains a good summary of the city at that time), is described in the directory for 1851 as a professor of music, and in the 1856 and 1876 directories as a book-and-stationery dealer (entry showed the firm's name as "Wilde & Bro.," with E. L. Wilde as the brother). This history was included in the directory for 1879, a fine description of Wheeling in 1815). Wilde's recollections provide much that is not found elsewhere. Rare. // (3.5 MB pdf) ||

Bank of Wheeling, 1229 Main St; 1892
[|1977 photos/drawings at LOC]

Centre Market Square
[|1976 study at LOC] [|LOC images from 1976]

Indpendence Hall, Wheeling
[|Statehood history] [|Custom House drawings], Library of Congress

Bridge on Old National Trail
[|Built before 1826, LOC]

184 Zane St, House
[|LOC photos]

Jacob Dick House, 393 National Road
[|LOC photos]

Medical Tower Building, Twelfth & Main Streets
[|LOC photos]

[|Not a history link but full of statistics]

[|WV Memory Project - Wheeling Photo Index]

[|Civil War - WV]

West Virginia History Heroes

Ryan Stanton's Wheeling history [|blog]

Joanne Sullivan's outstanding [|images] of historic structures visited during Friends of Wheeling monthly tours.

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