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Parkersburg, city (1990 pop. 33,862), seat of Wood co., NW W.Va., at the confluence of the Little Kanawha and Ohio rivers; settled 1785, inc. 1820. An industrial and shipping center in a coal region, it has food and dairy processing and industries that make aluminum products, tools, packaging, and wooden products. Nearby, in the Ohio River, is historic Blennerhassett Island Blennerhassett Island, in the Ohio River, near Parkersburg, W.Va. On it Harman Blennerhassett built a mansion and a laboratory for his study. The island was ransacked by the local militia when Aaron Burr 's schemes, with which Blennerhassett was connected, were ..... Click the link for more information. . |
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Shortly after midnight on December 30, 2003, a fire ignited in Joni Wedekamm's two-story Parkersburg, West Virginia, residence. DuPont is refusing to release certain data the company collected on Parkersburg, West Virginia employees to a court-appointed panel of scientists who are investigating potential health effects suffered by thousands of Ohio and West Virginia residents after drinking water was contaminated by PFOA. Joseph's Hospital, a 325-bed hospital located in Parkersburg, West Virginia, will be sold to Signature Hospital Corporation, Dallas, Texas, and 155-bed Saint Francis Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia, will be sold to Herbert J. |
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