Parkersburg, West Virginia

The title conflicts between Parker and the city planners of Newport were settled in 1809 in favor of his heirs.

The town was renamed Parkersburg in 1810.

It was chartered by the Virginia General Assembly in 1820.

In 1857, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad built a branch line south to the town from Wheeling, West Virginia.

It was rechartered as a city in 1860.

The Camden Consolidated Oil Company, founded in 1866 by future U.S.

It was constructed in 1868–1870 between Parkersburg and Belpre, Ohio, as part of the B&O's main line from Baltimore to St.

Senator Johnson Newlon Camden, dominated the refining business and was sold to Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company in 1875.

== References == == Further reading == Parkersburg, 1907: A Souvenir of the City of Parkersburg, W.

The southern part of the City of Parkersburg, South Parkersburg was a separate city until it became part of Parkersburg in 1950.

Treasury Department, was moved to Parkersburg in 1954 as a location midway between Chicago and Washington, D.C.

Prior to 1970, a five-member board, consisting of a mayor and four at-large councilmen, managed the city under the commission form whereas each commissioner ran a department of ...

From 1976 to 1981 Amtrak operated the Shenandoah, serving Cincinnati to the west and Washington, D.C., to the east.

Printed 1985 by Josten Publishing Co., State College, PA.

Parkersburg was home to the Ohio Valley Redcoats, a minor league baseball team, from 1993 through 1998.

Published 1999 by The Bicentennial Commission of Wood County, WV.

=== 2000 census === As of the census of 2000, there were 33,099 people, 14,467 households, and 8,767 families residing in the city.

Despite a 2004 class-action legal settlement obligating DuPont to install a drinking water filtration plant if asked, local water district officials have not, as of 2016, asked ...

Published 2005, Donning Company Publishers, Virginia Beach, VA.

The Taste of Parkersburg is an event held around Memorial Day each year since 2006 which features food and drinks from local vendors.

In 2008, the city and its three high schools placed second in ESPN's TitleTown USA competition.

== Media == The Parkersburg News and Parkersburg Sentinel were the city's two major daily newspapers until they combined in 2009 to form one daily edition: The Parkersburg News...

=== 2010 census === As of the census of 2010, there were 31,492 people, 13,807 households, and 8,086 families residing in the city.

In October 2012, the Bureau of the Public Debt consolidated with the Financial Management Service to form the Bureau of the Fiscal Service.

Parkersburg was featured in a 2013 episode of the NBC post-apocalyptic science fiction television drama series Revolution.

It is co-hosted by Downtown PKB and the Parkersburg Area Jaycees and was started in 2014.

== Notable people == == In popular culture == The Mark Ruffalo film Dark Waters, released in 2019, was based in events mainly from the City of Parkersburg.

== Demographics == === 2020 census === As of the census of 2020, there were 29,749 people, 13,119 households, and 7,305 families residing in the city.

Emo/Post-Rock/Indie band The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die references the city in their song "Blank//Worker" from the 2021 album Illusory Walls.