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Wheeling’s First Families: “The Zane Family” by John Bowman

February 9, 2019 @ 1:00 pm
Ohio County Public Library

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Wheeling’s First Families: “The Zane Family” by John Bowman

February 9, 2019 @ 1:00 pm

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The February program will be a presentation by John Bowman.  His topic will be The Zane’s Path to Wheeling in 1769.  Mr. Bowman is a Wheeling historian, West Virginia History Hero, steamboat model builder, and the author of many articles and books that document Wheeling’s history.

From Bowman’s book Boat Building: Wheeling’s First Industry: “In the late summer of 1769, brothers Silas, Jonathan, and Ebenezer Zane left Red Stone Old Fort Pennsylvania and traveled over a path well known to frontier scouts, Indian traders and Indians alike, and made claim to land that would one day become Wheeling.”

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Date:
February 9, 2019
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1:00 pm
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Ohio County Public Library
52 Sixteenth Street
Wheeling, WV 26003 United States
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