a town of the United States of North America, Virginia, on the left bank of the Ohio, where it receives the Wheeling Creek, 50 miles S.W. of Pittsburg. It stands on a narrow strip of alluvial ground, about 2 miles long, behind which rise steep hills. The Ohio is here crossed by a magnificent suspension bridge, with a span of 1010 feet, and with towers about 50 feet above the level of the water. Its entire length is 1380 feet, and its breadth 24. The principal public edifices in the town are the county buildings, about fourteen churches, two academies, three banks, and a theatre. There are numerous manufactories, including four iron foundries, three forges, three nailworks, two wire-factories, one of steam-engines, several cotton, woollen, and silk factories, paper and flour mills, glass-houses, &c. Abundance of coal is obtained in the vicinity. Pop. (1851) 11,391.