Clarksburg is a city in the North-Central region of West Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of Harrison County, and the principal city of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the city was 16,743 at the 2000 census.
Clarksburg was formed in 1785 in Virginia. The city is named for General George Rogers Clark.
In 1824, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was born in Clarksburg.
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Clarksburg is a city in the North-Central region of West Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of Harrison County, and the principal city of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area. The population of the city was 16,743 at the 2000 census.
Clarksburg was formed in 1785 in Virginia. The city is named for General George Rogers Clark.
In 1824, Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson was born in Clarksburg.
The Northwestern Turnpike, chartered in 1827, and begun in 1831, reached Clarksburg in 1836 and was macadamized from the Tygarts Valley River to Parkersburg in 1848.
In 1840 there was an established daily line of stages and a regular mail service which made connection with Ohio River steamers at Parkersburg.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reached Clarksburg from Grafton in 1856.
During the Civil War, it served as a supply depot of the Union Army from 1861 to 1865. General George B. McClellan had his headquarters here in 1861 until the Battle of Bull Run.
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