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词条 Timeline of Huntington, West Virginia
释义

  1. Prior to 20th century

  2. 20th century

  3. 21st century

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. Bibliography

  7. External links

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Huntington, West Virginia, USA.

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Prior to 20th century

{{History of West Virginia}}
  • 1871
    • Huntington incorporated; named after businessman Collis P. Huntington who initiated town planning.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}
    • Peter Cline Buffington elected mayor.[1][1]
  • 1872
    • Huntington Argus newspaper begins publication.[2]
    • First Congregational Church founded.[1]
  • 1873 - Chesapeake and Ohio Railway begins operating.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}
  • 1874 - Huntington Advertiser newspaper in publication.[2]
  • 1880 - Population: 3,174.
  • 1885 - Davis Opera House built.{{sfn|Dickinson|2016}}
  • 1887
    • Seat of Cabell County relocates to Huntington from Barboursville.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}
    • Railroad depot built.
  • 1888 - Ohio River Railroad (Wheeling-Huntington) begins operating.[3]
  • 1890 - Population: 10,108.
  • 1891 - Guyandotte becomes part of Huntington.
  • 1893 - "Central City" incorporated near Huntington.{{sfn|Miller|2006}}
  • 1900 - Ohio Valley Electric Railway begins operating.[4]

20th century

  • 1901 - Cabell County Courthouse built.[1]
  • 1903 - Carnegie Public Library opens.[5]
  • 1909
    • Central City becomes part of Huntington.{{sfn|Miller|2006}}
    • Herald-Dispatch newspaper in publication.[2]
  • 1910 - Population: 31,161.
  • 1913
    • March 30: Ohio River flood.[1]
    • Ritter Park created.[6]
  • 1915 - City Hall built.
  • 1917 - Liggett and Myers Tobacco factory built.
  • 1920 - Population: 50,177.
  • 1924 - St. Mary's Hospital opens.
  • 1926 - Tivoli Theatre in business.[7]
  • 1927 - WSAZ radio begins broadcasting.[8]
  • 1928 - Keith-Albee Theatre in business.[6]
  • 1929 - World War I Memorial Arch erected.
  • 1930
    • Rotary Park Bridge built.
    • Population: 75,572.
  • 1935 - Flood.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}
  • 1936 - Huntington Junior College established.
  • 1937 - January 28: Ohio River flood of 1937 occurs.{{sfn|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}
  • 1941 - Beverly Theatre in business.[7]
  • 1949 - WSAZ-TV television begins broadcasting.[9]
  • 1950
    • Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse (arena) opens.
    • Population: 86,353.
  • 1952 - Tri-State Airport dedicated.
  • 1955 - WHTN-TV (television) begins broadcasting.[10]
  • 1956 - Cabell Huntington Hospital opens.
  • 1961 - Marshall University active.[6]
  • 1968 - Cabell-Wayne Historical Society founded.[11]
  • 1970
    • November 14: Airplane crash occurs near city; Marshall University football team among the fatalities.
    • West Huntington Bridge built.
  • 1977
    • Huntington Civic Center (arena) opens.
    • University's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine established.
    • Nick Rahall becomes U.S. representative for West Virginia's 4th congressional district.[12]
  • 1980 - Population: 63,684.
  • 1981 - Huntington Mall in business.
  • 1983 - Huntington Area Food Bank established.[13] 
  • 1984 - Harris Riverfront Park opens.[6]
  • 1985
    • East Huntington Bridge opens.
    • City adopts "strong mayor" style of government.[14]
  • 1987 - Huntington Museum of Art active.
  • 1993 - Owens-Illinois Glass Co. manufactory shuts down.[6]
  • 1994 - Robert C. Byrd Bridge to Chesapeake, Ohio opens.
  • 2000 - City website online (approximate date).[15][16]

21st century

  • 2006 - Fictional but based on true events We Are Marshall movie released (set in Huntington).
  • 2009 - Kim Wolfe becomes mayor.
  • 2010 - Population: 49,138.[17]
  • 2013 - Stephen T. Williams becomes mayor.
  • 2015 - Evan Jenkins U.S. representative for West Virginia's 3rd congressional district.[18]

See also

  • Huntington history
  • List of mayors of Huntington, West Virginia
  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Cabell County, West Virginia
  • Other cities in West Virginia:
    • Timeline of Charleston, West Virginia
    • Timeline of Wheeling, West Virginia

References

1. ^{{cite book |title=History of West Virginia, Old and New|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4zUTAAAAYAAJ|year=1923|publisher=American Historical Society, Inc. |location=Chicago |oclc=42346040 }}
2. ^{{cite web |url= http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/titles/results/?state=West+Virginia&city=Huntington&rows=50&sort=date |title=U.S. Newspaper Directory |location=Washington DC |work=Chronicling America |publisher=Library of Congress |accessdate= March 8, 2017 }}
3. ^{{cite book|author=James Morton Callahan |title=Semi-centennial History of West Virginia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FjYTAAAAYAAJ|year=1913|publisher=Semi-Centennial Commission of West Virginia}}
4. ^{{cite book|author1= George W. Hilton |author2= John F. Due |title= Electric Interurban Railways in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2zH-zcuU-MC|year= 2000 |orig-year=1960 |publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-4014-2 |chapter=Individual Interurbans: West Virginia |pages=302–306 }}
5. ^{{cite book |title=American Library Annual, 1917-1918 |year=1918 |location=New York |publisher=R.R. Bowker Co. |url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013751220?urlappend=%3Bseq=434 }}
6. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/751 |title= Huntington |author= James E. Casto |work=West Virginia Encyclopedia |location=Charleston, WV |publisher=West Virginia Humanities Council |accessdate=March 8, 2017 }} (Includes timeline)
7. ^{{cite web |url= http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/united-states/west-virginia/huntington?status=all |title=Movie Theaters in Huntington, WV |work=CinemaTreasures.org |publisher= Cinema Treasures LLC |location=Los Angeles |accessdate= March 8, 2017 }}
8. ^{{citation |title=Radio Annual |oclc=2459636 |year=1939 |editor= Jack Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily |location=New York |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/radioannual193900radi#page/406/mode/2up |chapter= Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: West Virginia }}
9. ^{{cite web |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20030401174736/http://cityofhuntington.com/history.html |url= http://cityofhuntington.com/history.html |archivedate= April 1, 2003 |title= Huntington's History |work= Cityofhuntington.com }} (Timeline)
10. ^{{citation |title=Radio Annual and Television Year Book |oclc=10512206 |year=1960 |editor=Charles A. Alicoate |publisher= Radio Daily Corp. |location=New York |chapter=Television Stations: West Virginia |chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/radio00radi#page/861/mode/2up }}
11. ^{{cite book |title=Directory of Historical Organizations in the United States and Canada |year=2002 |edition=15th |isbn=0759100020 |author= American Association for State and Local History |chapter= West Virginia |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=LY0Q5Rv4O3YC |page= }}
12. ^{{cite book |title=Official Congressional Directory |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year= 1979 |chapter= West Virginia |chapterurl= https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015012846567?urlappend=%3Bseq=231 |via= HathiTrust }}
13. ^{{cite web |url=http://www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank/ |work=Food Bank Locator |title= West Virginia Food Banks |publisher=Feeding America |location=Chicago |accessdate=March 8, 2017 }}
14. ^{{cite book|author=Richard A. Brisbin |display-authors=etal |title=West Virginia Politics and Government|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VYWn6-gxj1UC|year=1996|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=0-8032-1271-2 |chapter= Local Government }}
15. ^{{cite web |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20000817132314/http://www.cityofhuntington.com/ |url= http://www.cityofhuntington.com |archivedate= August 17, 2000 |title= City of Huntingon, West Virginia |via= Internet Archive, Wayback Machine }}
16. ^{{cite web |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20000816211019/http://officialcitysites.org/WestVirginia/Cities/ |url= http://officialcitysites.org/WestVirginia/Cities/ |deadurl=yes |archivedate= August 16, 2000 |title=United States of America: West Virginia |work= Official City Sites |editor1= Kevin Hyde |editor2= Tamie Hyde |location=Utah |oclc=40169021 }}
17. ^{{cite web |url= https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/table/PST045215/5439460 |title= Huntington city, West Virginia |work=QuickFacts |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |accessdate=March 8, 2017 }}
18. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members |title=Members of Congress |work=GovTrack |author=Civic Impulse, LLC |location=Washington DC |accessdate=March 8, 2017 }}

Bibliography

{{Refbegin}}
  • {{cite book |title=Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Directory |location=Richmond, VA |oclc=23244118 |editor= J.H. Chataigne |year=1882

|chapter= Huntington
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=z45QAAAAYAAJ |pages= 366–370
}}
  • {{cite book |title= West Virginia State Gazetteer and Business Directory |publisher= R.L. Polk & Co. |location=Detroit |year= 1882

|chapter= Huntington
|chapterurl= https://archive.org/stream/westvirginiastat18821883rlpo#page/198/mode/2up
}}
  • {{citation |title= Huntington (West Virginia) Directory |publisher=Potts & Cammack |year= 1891 }}
  • {{cite book |title=Charter of the City of Huntington, West Virginia |url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100673507 |year= 1909 }}
  • {{cite book |editor= Lucius H. Cammack |title= Huntington |publisher=Huntington Chamber of Commerce |year= 1916 }}
  • {{cite book

|title=West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State
|series=American Guide Series
|author = Federal Writers' Project
|year= 1941
|publisher=Oxford University Press
|location= New York
|via= Google Books
|chapter= Huntington
|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=Q3n11Tg9kDoC |pages= 235+
| ref = {{harvid|Federal Writers' Project|1941}}
}}
  • George S. Wallace. Huntington through 75 Years. Huntington: 1947.
  • Doris C. Miller. Centennial History of Huntington. Huntington Centennial Commission, 1971.
  • James E. Casto. Huntington: An Illustrated History. Huntington: Chapman Printing, 1997.
  • {{cite book|title=Huntington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6GVdsK9R1gC|year=2003|publisher=Arcadia |location=Charleston, SC |series=Images of America |isbn=978-0-7385-1599-1}}
  • {{cite book|author= Lola Roush Miller |title=Central City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rcaParHRSMIC|year= 2006|publisher=Arcadia |location=Charleston, SC |series=Images of America |isbn=978-1-4396-1726-7

| ref = {{harvid|Miller|2006}}
}}
  • {{cite book |title=Huntington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_SmXSPVBbAC|year= 2010 |publisher=Arcadia |location=Charleston, SC |series=Then & Now |isbn=978-0-7385-6667-2}}
  • {{cite book |title= Legendary Locals of Huntington |author= James E. Casto |year= 2013 |publisher=Arcadia |location=Charleston, SC }}
  • {{citation |url= http://www.herald-dispatch.com/special/lost_huntington/ |title=Lost Huntington |work= Herald-Dispatch |location=Huntington }}. Circa 2014- (Series of articles)
  • James E. Casto. Lost Huntington, Recalling Vanished Landmarks. Drummond Press. Jacksonville, Florida, 2015.
  • {{citation |url=http://mds.marshall.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1005&context=lib_manu |author1= Jack L. Dickinson |author2=Alison K. Summer-Ramirez |title= Historic Huntington Businesses: the Birth of Huntington, W. Va. 1871-1900 |publisher= Marshall University Libraries |year= 2016

| ref = {{harvid|Dickinson|2016}}
}}{{refend}}

External links

{{Commons category|Huntington, West Virginia}}
  • {{cite web |publisher= Cabell County Public Library |url=https://cabe.ent.sirsi.net |title=Local History Room |location=Huntington }}
  • [https://dp.la/search?utf8=✓&page_size=100&q=huntington+virginia Items related to Huntington], various dates (via Digital Public Library of America)
  • {{cite web |url=http://libguides.marshall.edu/c.php?g=343356&p=2312866 |publisher=Marshall University Libraries |location=Huntington |title=LibGuides: Appalachian Studies }} (subject guide)
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