About this collection:

➤ Collection includes organizational records, historical essays and reports of the Upper Ohio Valley Historical Society from its founding in 1948 through 1958. In 1961, the Society dissolved and formed a new organization called the Wheeling Area Historical Society. Besides the administrative records of the society, the collection also contains historical material related to the Wheeling Female College, the Wheeling City-County Building cornerstone, and an essay about the African American members of the First Presbyterian Church (including mentions of slave owners and those they enslaved). 

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