PARKERSBURG — A special Blennerhassett tour about food will be featured in July at Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park. The program emphasis is on food and the role it played in the daily ...

PARKERSBURG – A summer series of monthly tours and talks on Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park will offer more information about the island’s inhabitants and history. One-hour special history ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — At the turn of the 19th century, the most glittering jewel of the American frontier was located on an island in the Ohio River 12 miles downstream from Marietta. Due to political ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - To walk inside one of Ohio’s finest homes from its earliest years of settlement, you have to travel to West Virginia. Maple Shade, the home of Aaron Waldo Putnam and his wife ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. -- Local historians Martha and Richard Hartley have spent the past 25 years researching the food that early settlers in Western Virginia prepared and ate. Now they're sharing their ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – Evening cruises and island visitation are some of the special activities offered at Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park this summer. The next Island Frolic is July 23.

The tourist season at Blennerhassett Island State Park is underway in Wood County. Located in the middle of the Ohio River, off Parkersburg’s shore, the state park re-opened Wednesday and began ...

The Valley Gem stern-wheel tour boat will visit Blennerhassett Island in West Virginia four times this year from its port in Marietta. The tours will leave at 9 a.m. June 10, July 12, Aug. 22 and Oct.