The gender makeup of the city was 48.0% male and 52.0% female. By 1875, Clarksburg was a major town in the northern part of the county, but the construction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad undermined its economy. There was “no criminal activity or foul play was found at the conclusion of the investigation,” according to Clarksburg Police Chief Mark Kiddy. Multiple farms, private and public, serve production and tourism purposes. Merchants Smith, Brown and Company built an early department store beginning in 1890. The company's metal factories in Wheeling made lids and closures for glass containers. The shopping complex has over 90 stores and provides jobs for the region.[8]. Location of Clarksburg in Harrison County, West Virginia. The racial makeup of the city was 92.9% White, 3.9% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.3% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 2.4% from two or more races. Undoubtedly, others located on these public lands, of which no official records were made. Dan Cava's Cadillac is a new and pre-owned vehicle dealer near Fairmont, Morgantown, and Wheeling, WV. It lies within the ecoregion of the Western Allegheny Plateau. Other significant buildings include the Goff Building (1911), Municipal Building (1888), the Waldo Hotel (1901–1904), Robinson Grand (1912, 1940), Harrison County Courthouse (1931-1932), U.S. Post Office (1932), Masonic Temple (1911–1914), First United Presbyterian Church (1894), and First Methodist Church (1909, 1956). Males had a median income of $63,125 versus $42,283 for females. All four of the largest neighborhoods are exempt from the moratorium. In 1924, Clarksburg hosted a parade for its "native son", John W. Davis, who had become the "dark horse" Democratic Presidential candidate (but lost) to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge. This has led to a moratorium in issuance of permits for new projects, but not issuance of permits in existing projects, for new homes in the Clarksburg area. One of its earliest white inhabitants was a man named Michael Ashford Dowden, who in 1752 received a patent for 40 acres (160,000 m2) from the colonial government called "Hammer Hill", and two years later permission to build an inn. The Chinese checkers craze of the 1930s and ’40s helped make the marbles very profitable, with more than 2,000,000 made per week. Relatively poor transportation slowed northwestern Virginia's development, so subscribers in Winchester, Romney, Kingwood, Clarksburg, Parkersburg and other towns en route caused the Northwestern Turnpike to be built. Now a city, it is named for General George Rogers Clark, a Virginian who conducted many expeditions against the British and Indians during the Indian Wars and the war of the American Revolution, including the strategically critical capture of Fort of Vincennes, now in the State of Indiana, in 1778.[8]. For a generation, window-glass factories, many of which were worker-owned cooperatives, relied heavily on these Belgian immigrants to provide the skills necessary to make West Virginia a national center of production. There were 8,132 housing units at an average density of 834.9 per square mile (322.4/km2). Senator), and ultimately creation of the State of West Virginia. Telephone service, the first in the state, began in Clarksburg in the mid-1880s, but in 1884 native son Edwin Maxwell (1825-1903; the Republican candidate), lost the election to become Governor of West Virginia. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad reached Clarksburg from Grafton in 1856. Every September since 1991 the city has been the site of the West Virginia Black Heritage Festival. The Northwestern Turnpike, now known as U.S. Route 50, chartered in 1827, and began in 1831, reached Clarksburg in 1836 and was macadamized from the Tygarts Valley River to Parkersburg in 1848. Clarksburg is a city in and the county seat of Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, in the north-central region of the state. UPDATE (2/12/21 2:07 p.m.): CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – It took Clarksburg firefighters more than an hour to contain a fire in the 300 block of Milford Street, Friday morning. The seven-story Empire Bank building went up in 1907, the nine-story Goff Building in 1911, and the 10-story Union Bank in 1912. The still-functional Despard Building was built in 1870. 13.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. [18], This page was last edited on 14 February 2021, at 01:25. It is the principal city of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area, which had a population of 89,718 in 2019. Waldomore was built beginning in 1839, served as the Clarksburg Public Library from 1931-1976 (when a new building was built next door for the majority of the collection), and added to the National Register in 1978. Two of the modern city's historic buildings date from this prewar era. The median income for a household in the city was $27,722, and the median income for a family was $35,075. During the boom growth period it was discovered that some of the new houses were built closer together than the minimum distance required by zoning laws, with roads built too narrow for fire trucks to pass, and homes and community facilities built without adequate permits or approvals by the county government. Clarksburg's oldest bank, the Empire National Bank, built a seven-story headquarters in 1907. [7] A Harris Teeter-anchored shopping center opened in 2013, and a large mall called Clarksburg Premium Outlets opened in October 2016. West Virginia's Belgians came from an area economically similar to West Virginia. Hazel-Atlas Glass Company, the glassmaking giant in a state known for glass production, was created in 1902 by the merger of four earlier companies. The capital is Annapolis (2010 population: 38,394) and the largest city is Baltimore (2012 population: 621,342). It is located at the northern end of the Interstate 270 technology corridor, approximately four miles north of Germantown. Relation of Clarksburg to nearby places, not necessarily contiguous. In 1887, Clarksburg laid its first six miles of water lines; downtown streets were lit by electricity in 1889.