Vivvo CMS 4.0 Ohio Valley Yellow Pages Ohio Valley Businesses http://www.ovyellow.com/ &copy;2007 Spoonlabs d.o.o. Ohio Valley Yellow Pages Ohio Valley Businesses http://www.ovyellow.com/files.php?file= http://www.ovyellow.com/ Birthplace of West Virginia - West Virginia Independence Hall - Wheeling WV http://www.ovyellow.com/Historical-Sites/13.html Historical Sites Sun, 11 May 2008 03:36:00 +0000 <p>Nearly six years before President Lincoln signed the proclamation making West Virginia the 35th State in the Union, construction had begun on the Wheeling Custom House, headquarters for federal offices for the Western District of Virginia. </p><p>Its completion, coinciding with the beginning of the Civil War, provided a facility for heated political discussions and constitutional conventions that led to eventual statehood for West Virginia in 1863. Here, issues dividing many Virginians - slavery being one of many - were debated, compromised and shaped into the skeleton of statehood. </p><p>&nbsp;</p>admin Ohio Valley Yellow Pages Ohio Valley Businesses