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5 unusual facts about Clarksburg


8th Ohio Cavalry

The remainder (4 companies that were on detached duty in Clarksburg, West Virginia) mustered out at the end of July.

Clarksburg, Massachusetts

On the state level, Clarksburg is represented in the Massachusetts House of Representatives by the First Berkshire district, which covers northern Berkshire County, as well as portions of Franklin County.

Eugene J. Martin

As a child, Eugene ran away on several occasions, was placed in reform school at six years of age, and eventually spent the remainder of his childhood on a farm in Clarksburg, Maryland where his foster parents were Franie and Madessa Snowdon.

ISG Weirton Steel

In 1905 Weir and his partner, James Phillips, bought a tin mill in Clarksburg, West Virginia.

Mountaineer Militia

While members of the group had been assembling large quantities of explosives and blasting caps, militia leader Floyd Raymond Looker obtained blueprints of the FBI facility from a Clarksburg, West Virginia firefighter.


2nd Virginia, Company D

During the Civil War, the company was a part of the original "Stonewall Brigade," commanded by General Thomas J. Jackson of Lexington, Virginia, originally a native of Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), and Jackson's Mill, near present-day Weston, West Virginia.

Adamston

Victory High School (currently known as Adamston High School), located in Clarksburg, West Virginia

Clarksburg Middle School

(Kindergarten through sixth grades were enrolled in Bates Elementary in Courtland, California.) The school open in September 2006 as a middle school, and the staff has been engaged in the development of a 7th through 12th secondary program in conjunction with Delta High School which sits adjacent to Clarksburg Middle School on the same school site.

East Mountain

East Mountain, part of the southern Green Mountains located in Clarksburg, Massachusetts and traversed by the Appalachian Trail

Edgewood House

Edgewood Manor, Clarksburg, West Virginia, listed on the NRHP in West Virginia

John E. McCall

McCall was born in Clarksburg, Tennessee in Carroll County on August 14, 1859, son of Henry M. and Mildred Connally Bowlin McCall.

Mountain Line Transit Authority

It is also the provider of bus service on the campus of West Virginia University as well as inter-city bus service to Fairmont, West Virginia, Clarksburg, West Virginia, Waynesburg, Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh International Airport.

Nathan Goff, Jr.

Goff was born at the Waldomore in Clarksburg, West Virginia on February 9, 1843, the son of Waldo Potter Goff and the former Harriet Louise Moore.

Ohio State Route 550

It then continued west along the Ohio River, concurrent with SR 7 to Newport where it crossed into St. Marys, West Virginia on the Clarksburg-Columbus Short Route Bridge, later renamed the Hi Carpenter Bridge in 1967, an eyebar-chain suspension bridge bridge.

Pine Cobble Mountain

Pine Cobble Mountain, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts, is a sub-summit of East Mountain in the Clarksburg State Forest.

Rex Bumgardner

Bumgardner moved back to West Virginia after his football career and started a job as the deputy sheriff to his mother, who was the sheriff in the Clarksburg area.

WDTV

However, the latter also maintains facilities on West Pike Street/SR 20 in Downtown Clarksburg.

WPDX

WPDX-FM, a radio station broadcasting at 104.9 MHz on the FM band, licensed to Clarksburg, West Virginia

WVFX

Although most internal operations were integrated with WDTV in Bridgeport, WVFX initially maintained its original facility on West Pike Street/SR 20 in Downtown Clarksburg.

WVHF

92.7 WGIE Clarksburg, West Virginia — was WVHF-FM until 2001


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