Morgantown (West Virginia)
Monongalia County
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Morgantown is a city and the county seat of Monongalia County in the north of the U.S. state of West Virginia. Morgantown was established in 1810. The population is 30,333 (as of 2009).
Location
The city lies on the Monongahela River, near the border with the state of Pennsylvania.
History
By the Peace Treaty of 1763, the area now Morgantown was claimed by Franco- American and Anglo-American settlers, as well as by the local indigenous communities. While emerged from the peace agreement, that the English were awarded the area, but the warlike conflicts with the Indians continued until the beginning of the American Revolution unabated.
Due to these ongoing disputes a high number of forts ( forts ) were constructed in the far -surface region of Morgantown.
- Fort Pierpont, 1769 at Cheat River
- Fort Coburn, 1770 at Dorsey Knob
- Fort Morgan in 1772 in what is now Morgantown
- Fort Dinwiddle, 1772 in the area of Stewartstown
- Fort Martin, 1773, a few kilometers north of the Monongahela River
- Fort Burris, 1774
- Fort Kern, 1774
The first settlement was in 1772 by Zackquill Morgan instead.
1785 the area of the Virginia General Assembly was licensed, whereupon the first plot was offered for sale by auction.
Historically noteworthy is the 18th-century Old Stone House, is in today's Chestnut Street, and was taken on December 27, 1972, the number 72.00129 million from the NRHP.
Twinning
Sister cities are:
- Guanajuato, a city in central Mexico in the same State;
- Xuzhou, a city in Jiangsu Province of the People's Republic of China.
Education
Morgantown is home to West Virginia University, the largest and most important university in West Virginia. The number of enrolled students is 28 898 (as of 2009). The school is adjacent to the Downtown Morgantown Historic District, a historic district that was recorded from the NRHP on May 2, 1996 with the number 96,000,441. In the city, ranging from the University High School and Morgantown High School two secondary schools
Cultural
Cultural deals offer in Morgantown, the WVU Arts & Entertainment as well as the Monongalia Arts Center, which is found in the NRHP as historically recorded Old Morgantown Post Office. The building was added on 28 March 1979 with the number 79,002,593.
Sports
Morgantown also has the associated infrastructure in addition to numerous sports activities. Worth mentioning here is the Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium and the WVU Coliseum.
Others
Morgantown in 2010 was listed among the top 10 of the Forbesliste " Best Places For Business And Careers ".
In Morgantown, there are two questions drawn up by the city trails. The Caperton Trail, named after the former governor of West Virginia, Gaston Caperton, is a nearly 10 -mile paved trail, and leads among other things through the historic district of the city. The length of the Deckers Creek Trail hiking trail is almost 30 kilometers.
The Morgantown Municipal Airport ( IATA CODE: MGW), located about 5 km east of the city.
During the 1970s, the U.S. Department of Transportation built an experimental Personal Rapid Transport. The Morgantown Personal Rapid Transit ( PRT) is are used in 1975.
Memorable people
- Nancie Banks (1951-2002), jazz singer, bandleader and copyist
- Lawrence Kasdan ( born 1949 ), film director, screenwriter and actor - grew up in Morgantown
- Moses P. Kinkaid (1856-1922), politician - born in Morgantown
- David Selby ( born 1941 ), actor - born in Morgantown