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Moundsville

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Moundsville city (1990 pop. 10,753), seat of Marshall co., W.Va., in the Northern Panhandle, on the Ohio River; settled 1771, inc. 1865. Coal was once the chief industry, and some is still mined. Manufactures include asphalt, roofing materials, petroleum calcined coke, and hygiene products. There is agriculture, and livestock and poultry are raised. Moundsville is the site of the expansive Grave Creek Native American Burial Mound.

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Moundsville

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Moundsville, West Virginia/USA Grave Creek, Elizabethtown Settled in 1771, it was renamed Elizabethtown in 1798. Because of what is considered to be the highest prehistoric Native American burial mound in North America, hence its first name, a new Mound City was established nearby in 1831. This city and Elizabethtown merged in 1865 to form Moundsville.

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