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Clarksburg

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Clarksburg, city (1990 pop. 18,059), seat of Harrison co., N central W.Va., at the confluence of Elk Creek and the West Fork of the Monongahela River; inc. 1795. It is an industrial and shipping center for an area of coal mines, oil and natural gas fields, and grazing lands. Glass and fabricated metal products, welding and transportation equipment, and machinery are manufactured. The city was an important Union supply base in the Civil War, and remains of Union earthworks are preserved in Lowndes Hill park. Clarksburg is the birthplace of Stonewall Jackson Jackson, Stonewall (Thomas Jonathan Jackson), 1824–63, Confederate general, b. Clarksburg, Va. (now W.Va.), grad. West Point, 1846. Like a Stone Wall

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Cruz, of Clarksburg, West Virginia, claimed cops refused him a loo break and said: "I couldn't hold it no more.
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If users have questions, they can contact the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division in Clarksburg, West Virginia, at 304-625-4995.
Uniform Crime Reports only online by The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
The FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which is located in Clarksburg, West Virginia, has launched a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of people's physical characteristics, termed "biometrics.
FBI aims for world's largest biometrics database by The New American
 
 
 
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