Clarksburg

Chartered in 1785.

Population 2010 Census: 16,578
Median Age: 43.4 years

Courthouse: Completed 1932
Architect: R. L. Walther

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Primary Sources Online
Benjamin Wilson letter, Whiskey Rebellion
Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson
West Virginia Industrial Home for Girls
Women Pickets at Owings Mine
Bluebeard of Quiet Dell
John W. Davis
Shinnston Tornado
1950 Flood
1960 Presidential Campaign in Harrison County
Cyrus Vance
West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival 1979

Photographs
Photographs of Schools in Harrison County
Asa Davis, of a very numerous pioneer connection and the smallest man in Harrison County. On one of his trips, a delay of twenty-four hours was caused by a family event near the North Fork of Hughes River, sketched from the mail carrier's own description, in 1847.
According to Mr. Sutton, who fought around the Clarksburg fort in Indian days, the first bridge between that point and the Ohio River was made of split slabs and spanned a deep drain near its mouth on Goose Creek. Sketched in 1846.
The first coach (of English or Old Virginia make) that ever traveled from Winchester to the Ohio River. In 1846 it belonged to Major Hildebrand, mail contractor at Marietta, Ohio, and was temporarily stored in a dilapidated condition with Gen. Carder, hotel keeper at Clarksburg. The house is an average specimen of the old road taverns where the coach used to stop.
In the foreground, Capt. Caleb Boggess, of Harrison County 1846; in the distance, Hon. Edwin L. Duncan, Circuit Judge.
Marshall Robinson of Clarksburg, 1846.
Col. Kimheloe and Chas. S. Lewis, of Harrison, lawyers, engaged in a political argument 1848.
Hon. William A. Harrison, of Clarksburg, a popular land and jury lawyer.
Hon. Horace Greeley, editor of the New York Tribune, at Clarksburg, West Virginia, where he was invited to lecture at the Agricultural Fair, September 30, 1869.
Thomas Hughes, a famous pioneer and Indian fighter of Harrison County who first resided about the fort at Clarksburg and later at Hacker's Creek.
John Carlile
John J. Davis
Waldo Golf
Granville Hall
Thomas Harrison
Joseph Johnson
John Vance
Levi Shinn Log Cabin
Burning of the Traders Hotel, Clarksburg

Secondary Sources Online
List of Harrison County Legislators
Good Hope, Agricultural Extention Community History
Prospect Valley, Agricultural Extention Community History
"Booster Ethos: Community, Image, and Profit in Early Clarksburg" by L. Diane Barnes (West Virginia History)
"The Jews of Clarksburg: Community Adaptation and Survival, 1900-60" by Deborah R. Weiner (West Virginia History)
"Nathan Goff Jr. in the Civil War" by G. Wayne Smith (West Virginia History)
Biography of Howard Mason Gore
History of West Milford

West Virginia Veterans Memorial Biographies
Thomas Joseph Abruzzino
Jamie Horton Alexander
Joseph Harkley Bell
Charles Albert Bias Jr.
Gilbert Henry Booth
Harold Lee Burge
Nicolangelo (Nick A.) Cavallaro
James Russell Corder
Harlan G. Davis
Harry Gilbert Deem Jr.
James Robert Feeney
James Edward Findley
James Samuel Findley
John Everal Finlayson
Robert Morgan Gregg
Jerry Lee Halpenny
James Harold Hayes and Gene Edward Hayes
Clarence C. Herrick
Jack Russell Kemper
Okey Bertrum Kennedy Jr.
Wayne Huffman Kidd
Joseph Churchill Maxwell
Vance Ballard McWhorter
Leo Menendez Jr.
William Perry Norman
Warren Maynard Owens
Roy Earl Parrish
Lloyd Bryan Paugh
Lucinda Lovie Rose
Clarence Edmond Shreve
Ray Odbert Skidmore
John Richard Sole
Gene William Somers Jr.
Pete John Sotirakis
Nason Dale Stalnaker
Vance Davidson Stonestreet
Edward Thompson
Clarence Garolld Van Horn
Don Edgar Wade
Jack Wayne Wade
Richard Gene Welch
Michael Alonzo Wells
Kemble White Jr.
John David Wright

History of the American Negro Biographies
Duncan Huey Kyle
Ely Leon Lofton
James Wesley Robinson
Henry Jackson Trice
John James Williams