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20 unusual facts about Wheeling


28th Ohio Infantry

The 28th Ohio Infantry mustered out of service at Wheeling, West Virginia on July 13, 1865.

6th Ohio Cavalry

Following completion of training, the regiment moved to Wheeling, West Virginia on May 13 and then to Strasburg, Virginia to join Major General John C. Fremont's army in the Shenandoah Valley.

Airgun Designs

Airgun Designs, Inc. (AGD) is a manufacturer of paintball markers and equipment formerly based in Wheeling, IL.

Charles A. Weaver

Finally, he has business interests in Wheeling, and at various places in Pennsylvania and the west.

Darren Schwartz

Schwartz remained with the Thunderbirds as the franchise transferred from Winston-Salem to Wheeling and scored a career-high 62 goals in 62 games.

Delf Norona

Norona was very active in stamp collecting in the Ohio Valley area of West Virginia, founding the Ohio Valley Stamp Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1935.

Hermann Lungkwitz

They migrated to Wheeling, West Virginia, but decided on the destination of Texas in 1851.

Hook turn

Arlington Heights, Prospect Heights and Wheeling, Illinois - Palatine Road is a heavily traveled east-west surface road with exterior one-way frontage roads and interior grade-level "express lanes", and all turns (both cross streets and driveways) are taken from the frontage roads with their own traffic signal cycle at Windsor Drive, Schoenbeck and Wheeling roads.

John G. Inglis

He left Westinghouse to become Electrical Engineer for the Co-operative Transit Company in Wheeling, West Virginia.

John Work Scott

A native of Wheeling, West Virginia, Scott graduated from Jefferson College in 1827 and worked as a Presbyterian minister.

Klieves, Kraft and Company

was a building contractor and architectural firm in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Mike Trbovich

Over the weekend of May 26 to May 28, 1972, 800 MFD delegates from 16 UMWA districts gathered in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Norman Armour

According to an interview in 1976, Armour indicated that he was proudest of his work in 1954, protesting the attacks of Joseph R. McCarthy, a Republican Senator from Wisconsin, on the members of the Foreign Service, suspected of connivance with communism during the ongoing Cold War, in his February 9, 1950 Wheeling Speech on Lincoln Day to the Republican Women Club of Wheeling, West Virginia.

Rob Parissi

The band played the Ohio Valley region, Wheeling, West Virginia and the rest of the Northern West Virginia panhandle, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Todd Bullard

Bullard was born in Wheeling, West Virginia to L. Todd Bullard and Katharine Virginia Netting Bullard.

Virginia v. West Virginia

Unionist sentiment was so high in the northwestern counties that civil government began to disintegrate, and the Wheeling Intelligencer newspaper called for a convention of delegates to meet in the city of Wheeling to consider secession from the state of Virginia.

Visual Glide Slope Indicator

For example, Chicago Executive Airport (KPWK) located in Wheeling, IL has runway 16.

West Virginia Northern Community College

West Virginia Northern Community College (WVNCC, or simply "Northern") is a public, multi-campus community college with the main campus located in downtown Wheeling, West Virginia, United States.

Wheeling

Fort Wheeling or simply Wheeling, a comics series by Hugo Pratt

Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel

Sheet steel was produced in an Allenport, Pennsylvania plant, while the company gathered the coke that is required for steel production at a Follansbee, West Virginia plant.


1992–93 ECHL season

The Winston-Salem Thunderbirds move to Wheeling, WV, becoming the first franchise to make a major relocation, the Roanoke Valley Rebels announced that they were changing their name to the Roanoke Valley Rampage, and the Cincinnati Cyclones announced that they were moving to the International Hockey League and were being replaced with a franchise in Birmingham, AL.

6th Regiment West Virginia Infantry

The 6th West Virginia was mustered into Federal service on August 13, 1861, at Grafton, Mannington, Cairo, Parkersburg and Wheeling, in western Virginia.

7th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The 7th West Virginia (originally the 7th Virginia) was organized at Grafton, Portland, Greenland, Cameron, Morgantown and Wheeling, in western Virginia between July 16, 1861, and December 3, 1861.

Aetnaville

Aetnaville Bridge, a bridge connecting Bridgeport, Ohio to Wheeling, West Virginia

Caracole

John Cruso, for example, explained the "caracoll" as a maneuver whereby a formation of cuirassiers would receive the enemy's charge by wheeling apart to either side, letting the enemy rush in between the pincers of their trap, and then charging inwards against the flanks of the overextended enemy.

Charles Russell House

Charles W. Russell House, Wheeling, West Virginia, listed on the NRHP in West Virginia

Colorado–Colorado Springs Mountain Lions

Snowboarding, skiing, rock climbing, bouldering, hiking, mountain biking, trail running, and lesser common slack roping and 4-wheeling are popular student activities at UCCS due to the proximity to Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, and the surrounding mountainous terrain.

Doug West

After the NBA, West spent two years coaching at a high school in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, and two years as an athletic director at a high school in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Instrumental Assassination

Like the earlier Instrumental Asylum the record offered four free-wheeling and light-hearted improvisatory arrangements of current pop songs, The Troggs' "Wild Thing" and "With a Girl like You" and Georgie Fame's "Sunny" and "Getaway".

Jamboree

WWVA Jamboree, a country music radio program on WWVA (AM), Wheeling, West Virginia, U.S.

Jamboree in the Hills

The entire event has been carried on Wheeling radio stations 1170 WWVA and/or 98.7 WOVK, every year since it's inception, having originally grown out of WWVA's live Jamboree radio show.

Johnstown Chiefs

The Chiefs along with the Wheeling Thunderbirds (now known as the Wheeling Nailers) played the role of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 1995 film Sudden Death starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Peter Elkus

As a student, he attended opera workshops at the Goldovsky Opera Workshops, Denver Colorado and Wheeling West Virginia; Mannes College of Music New York, Hunter College New York and was chosen by Maria Callas as a member of the Juilliard Opera Theater.

Restoration spectacular

The first, The State of Innocence (1677), was never staged, as his designated company, the King's, had neither the capital nor the machinery for it: a dramatisation of John Milton's Paradise Lost, it called for "rebellious angels wheeling in the air, and seeming transfixed with thunderbolts" over "a lake of brimstone or rolling fire".

Richard Vincent Whelan

The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad formally reached Wheeling in 1853, but many Irish emigrants building that and other railroads or working in the new factories had already passed through or settled in the city.

The National Crittenton Foundation

The foundation is affiliated with 22 member agencies operating across the country in urban and rural areas, including Baltimore; Boston; Charleston, South Carolina; Denver, Colorado; Kansas City, Missouri; Knoxville, Tennessee; Orange County, California and Los Angeles, California; Peoria, Illinois; Philadelphia; Phoenix, Arizona, San Francisco, California; Sioux City, Iowa; Washington, D.C. and Wheeling, West Virginia.

Tommy Bridges

Born in Gordonsville, Tennessee, Bridges attended the University of Tennessee, and after having a 20-strikeout game for the minor league Wheeling Stogies in 1929, he joined the Tigers in 1930, inducing Babe Ruth to ground out on his first major league pitch.

Township High School District

Township High School District 214 — the Cook County district of Elk Grove and Wheeling townships (and a part of Palatine Township), and containing Buffalo Grove High School, Elk Grove High School, John Hersey High School, Prospect High School, Rolling Meadows High School, and Wheeling High School, and formerly Arlington High School and Forest View High School

Wheeling Island

Some restaurants on Wheeling Island include KFC, Burger King, Golden Chopsticks, Phillips Mclure House, and Abby's restaurant and lounge.

Wheeling Island Historic District

Notable non-residential contributing properties include the Exposition Building (1924), Thompson United Methodist Church (1913-1915), Madison School (1916), firehouse (1930-1931), the Bridgeport Bridge (1893), the Aetnaville Bridge (1891), "The Marina," Wheeling Island Baseball Park, and "Belle Island Park." It includes the separately listed Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Harry C. and Jessie F. Franzheim House, and John McLure House.

WJU

Wheeling Jesuit University, a Roman Catholic university in Wheeling, West Virginia

WOUB-TV

However, the combined power of the two stations reaches all of the Huntington/Charleston and Zanesville markets, as well as portions of the Columbus, Parkersburg and Wheeling/Steubenville markets.