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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: December 31, 2013
Caption: Wheeling is named for a Murder!
Additional Description: This display in the Wheeling Visitors Center explains the derivation of the name "Wheeling":

"One unfortunate European adventurer met an untimely death at the hands of a local tribe of Native Americans, who decapitated him and placed his head on a stake near the Ohio as a warning to others. The word 'Wheeling' is the Indian name for 'head'..."
Submitted: January 5, 2014, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p263766
File Size: 1.374 Megabytes

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