Parkersburg History
People were drilling for this mineral when oil was discovered.
What is salt?
Held the weekend after Labor Day, this annual event brings thousands of people to Marietta.
What is the Sternwheeler Festival?
This state's Department of National Resources is responsible for the Ohio River.
What is West Virginia?
Enslaved people were rowed across the Ohio River from Parkersburg to Belpre to start their journey north on this "railroad".
What is the Underground Railroad?
Every Wednesday evening from late May through early September, this free event happens at Point Park in the amphitheater.
What is yoga?
This state's motto is "With God, All Things Are Possible."
What is Ohio?
There is a life-size statue of this man in Riverview Cemetery. He donated his house on the corner of 4th and Avery as a Civil War hospital.
Who is Henry Logan?
This airline serves the MOV Regional Airport.
What is Contour Airlines?
This state's first governor was Arthur Boreman.
What is West Virginia?
This creator of the West Virginia flag lived, for a time, in a carriage house he built located in Julianna Historic District.
Who is Dis Debar?
This word means, "I forbid" and is the name of a street and community in Warren Township. Its name is derived from the 1802 Convention when Ephraim Cutler cast the deciding vote against slavery in Ohio.
Confectioner Clarence Crane of this state, created Life Savers as a mint, with a hole in the center, to prevent it from melting in the summer heat.
What is Ohio? (specifically Cleveland)