Parkersburg
a city and countyseat of Wood co., W. Va., on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Little Kanawha, and on the Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, the Baltimore and Ohio, and the Little Kanawha railroads; 96 miles S. W. of Wheeling. The Ohio river is crossed here by a railroad bridge constructed in 1869-1871. It is 1½ miles long and has six spans. Here are waterworks, a high school, Academy of the Visitation, a seminary, United States Government building, electric light and street railroad plants, National and State banks and daily and weekly newspapers.
Its manufactories include lumber mills, barrel factories, machine shops, iron foundries, veneer and panel works, furniture factories, and an oil refinery. The assessed valuation is over $6,000,000.
Pop. (1910) 17,842; (1920) 20,050.