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[email protected] PARKERSBURG The Wood County Commission received four bids for a carriage to display Long Tom, the Civil War-era siege cannon, when it is eventually moved to its new home at Fort Boreman Park this summer. The commission also discussed how the cannon might be displayed at the park and at an in-person dedication in June on West Virginia Day. Last year, the county did a trade with the City of Parkersburg where the county would get Long Tom and move it from City Park to Fort Boreman Park. The city would get control over all of Bicentennial Park, which had been split in half between the county and the city. ....
A Very Short History of Pittsburgh For Pittsburgh, geography and geology have been destiny. August 25, 2008 Geography comes first. Close upon the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, one gets a sense of westward flowing waters, but a map of Western Pennsylvania shows the Allegheny flowing south and the Monongahela north, almost at right angles to the Ohio. A fourth river, the Potomac, comes into play by bringing the coast of Virginia close to the Monongahela and allowing for some tough navigation to connect Pittsburgh with the Atlantic Ocean. Lastly the mountains. The western slope of the Alleghenies lies some 40 miles from the Point. From there, it’s a straight 1,500-mile shot to the Rockies. Pittsburgh not only faces but opens the great heartland of America. Before the canals and railroads, the Ohio and Mississippi river systems were the interstate highways of their day. ....