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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: December 31, 2013
Caption: Washington Hall
Additional Description: "This building stood on the northeast corner of Market and Monroe streets -- now Market and Twelfth streets -- Wheeling. Within it, on the second floor, the Conventions of 1861, which re-organized the Government of Virginia and provided for the formation of West Virginia, held their sessions. It was erected in 1851 by a corporation known as the Washington Hall Association, at a cost of $46, 000. It was first opened on January 1853, when citizens of Wheeling gave a banquet in honor of the President of the Baltimore an Ohio Railroad, together with his guests from the City of Baltimore and the States of Virginia and Maryland, who arrived at the City of Wheeling on that date, having been carried thither by the first train from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ohio River. It was totally destroyed by fire November 30, 1876." Image on display at West Virginia Independence Hall.
Submitted: January 1, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p263337
File Size: 2.430 Megabytes

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