Today, we're going to introduce you to the city of Wheeling, West Virginia. Sandwiched between Ohio and Pennsylvania in the narrow 11 mile wide Northern panhandle of the state.

Wheeling is a hard place to categorize. It sits at a physical transition from the Appalachian mountains to the fields of the Midwest.

Its history has been dominated by iron and steel, but also music and culture. It feels part Victorian, part Appalachian, part Rust Belt, part Nashville.

George Fetherling, a Wheeling native, in his book, Wheeling, A Brief History, said the following, describing the city in the early 1800s.

This was the wonder of Wheeling at the time, the fact that it was a mixture of the transient and the stable, the fleeting and the fixed.

We'll use this first episode to give you a bit of Wheeling's story. This will be followed by three more episodes, each featuring a company that has anchored part of Wheeling's past, Wheeling Steel, Block Brothers Tobacco, and the radio station WWVA.

I hope you'll find the city and these companies as interesting, surprising, and category defying as I have.

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Resources:

* Wheeling: A Brief History - George Fetherling

* Wheeling Population Dynamics

* Wheeling, WV-OH - Data USA

* Wheeling Nailers - Minor League Hockey

* Bridge Tavern & Grill

* Wheeling Heritage - Self-Guided Tours

* North Wheeling - Weelunk

* Ohio County Public Library

* Mount Wood Overlook: A Community Treasure - Weelunk

* Wheeling Miners - Arena Football

* Waterfront Hall

* Waterfront Hall - Building New Business in Wheeling, WV

* Wheeling Hotel Photos - Ohio Country Public Library

* New-Look Bridge Tavern Reopens in Downtown Wheeling

* Wheeling Flag Description

* Wheeling: The Gateway to the West (1928, West Virginians)

* Wheeling Area Economic Outlook - 2021-2025

* Wheeling University

* Northern West Virginia Community College

* Bridges: Wheeling Suspension Bridge

* Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie"

* Henry: The life and legacy of Wheeling’s most notorious brewer - Wheeling Heritage Media

* The History of Wheeling’s Mozart Park - Part 1 & 2

* How a Wheeling Company Became One of the Country’s Largest Pharmaceutical Giants - Weelunk

* The Aspirin Wars

* History of Wheeling Post No. 1, American Legion

* DiCarlo’s Pizza

* DiCarlo’s Pizza: A Cultural Icon

* Wheeling Heritage

* Friends of Wheeling

* Betsy Sweeny: Saving Old Buildings in Wheeling, WV

* Wheeling Intelligencer & News Register

* Orrick Law Firm

* Orrick Global Operations & Innovation Center - Wheeling, WV

* Orrick Marks Wheeling Transformation With a Renaming: The Global Operations & Innovation Center

* Ralph Baxter: Why Orrick Came to Wheeling, WV

* At the Beginning (The American Lawyer)

* Why Doesn't Every Biglaw Firm Have An Office In Wheeling, West Virginia? - Above the Law

* Williams Lea

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