Parkersburg

Parkersburg, capital of Wood county, West Virginia, on the Ohio River (here crossed by a railway bridge $1\backslash frac\{1\}\{2\}$ mile long), at the mouth of the Little Kanawha, 195 miles by rail E. by N. of Cincinnati. The city has a large trade in petroleum, and contains five great oil-refineries, besides chemical works, lumber-mills, and manufactories of furniture, barrels, &c. Pop. 8582.