Wheeling, West Virginia

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Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Ohio County, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains within the state's northern panhandle. It is the fifth-most populous city in West Virginia and the most populous city in the northern panhandle with a population of 27,062 at the 2020 census. The Wheeling metropolitan area had 139,513 residents in 2020. Wheeling was settled in 1769 on land contested between the Province of Pennsylvania and Colony of Virginia, and later grew to become Virginia's largest city west of the Appalachian Mountains. During the American Civil War, it was the host of the Wheeling Conventions which led to the separation of West Virginia from Virginia. Wheeling was the state capital of West Virginia from 1861 to 1870, and again from 1875 to 1885. Wheeling became a manufacturing center in the late nineteenth century due to its location along major transportation routes, including...

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