Moundsville

Population 2010 Census: 9,318
Median Age: 45.2 years

Courthouse: Completed 1876; addition 1974
Architect: C. C. Kemble

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Primary Sources Online
Grave Creek Mound
Murder of Moundsville Town Sergeant J. P. Thatcher, 1886
Incorporation of McMechen, 1905
Supreme Court decision in Jameson vs. Board of Education, District of Union, 1914
Benwood Mine Explosion, 1924
Charles Lindbergh in Moundsville, 1927
Execution of Harry Powers, 1932
Harriet B. Jones, 1937
End of Street Car Between Moundsville and McMechen, 1941
Filming of Night of the Hunter, 1954
1960 Presidential Campaign in Marshall County
Destruction of Cameron Clay Products plant, 1964
Riot at West Virginia Penitentiary, 1973
Executions at the West Virginia Penitentiary

Photographs
Photographs of Schools in Marshall County
West Virginia Penitentiary guard tower
Online Photo Database (Search for Marshall in location field.)

Secondary Sources Online
List of Marshall County Legislators
Limestone, Agricultural Extention Community History
Grave Creek Mound
Arch A. Moore Jr.
Harriet B. Jones
"Persecution and Acceptance: The Strange History of Discrimination Against Married Women Teachers in West Virginia," by Robert J. O'Brien (West Virginia History)
"'Thy Brother's Blood': Capital Punishment in West Virginia," by Stan Bumgardner and Christine Kreiser (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)

West Virginia Veterans Memorial Biographies
Charles Kendrick Adams Jr.
Gaylerd David Adams
Edward Leo and William Thomas Blake
Walter Joseph Buran
Ray Edward Dowler
Roger Louis Hicks
Archie Andrew Porter
Charles Edward Schane
Lester Scott
Delmont W. Strait
William Carl Whitlatch Jr.
Charles Henry Wilson Jr.
Leonard Joe Zelaski Jr.