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- In 1866, Elizabethtown and Moundsville were consolidated under the name of Moundsville.
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The original settlement, known in 1771 as Grave Creek for a large burial mound (now within city limits) built by the Adena people, was renamed Elizabethtown in 1798. Mound City was established nearby in 1831, and the two communities were consolidated as Moundsville in 1866.
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- WESTVIRGINIAVILLE: How did you come to journalism and what was your interest in crafting a documentary such as “Moundsville”? JOHN W. MILLER: I grew up in Belgium, where my parents from Maryland dropped an anchor after backpacking through Europe in the summer of 1976.
- WV: What was the original impetus behind wishing to do a documentary on a small town in West Virginia? What were some of the compelling reasons why you wished to study the story—the history, the current state of the town and beyond—of Moundsville?
- WV: What did you learn about the town—and maybe about small-town life and the realities of life in a sometimes struggling town—that you did not know before your deep dive into the place?
- WV: There is a long-running discourse on the future of West Virginia and life in more rural places—out-migration. Young people leaving. An economy dependent on the fading industry of coal-mining and the only transitional industry of fracking.
Moundsville was named for Grave Creek Mound, built by Adena Indians between 250 B.C. and 150 B.C. The largest earthen, conical burial mound in North America, Grave Creek Mound is 240 feet in diameter and 62 feet high.
Jan 27, 2020 · The Grave Creek Mound, a burial ground for the Adena people, looms above the town — giving it its name, and a minor tourist attraction. Still from the documentary “Moundsville.”
In 1771, English colonists Samuel and James Tomlinson built a cabin at what later became Moundsville, although they did not overwinter, and in fact left for several years after attacks by Native Americans.
Dec 30, 2021 · In 1866, Elizabethtown and Mound City, established in 1831, were consolidated into the town of Moundsville. The name was chosen in honor of the many burial mounds built by the Adena Culture more than 2,000 years ago, the largest of which is known as Grave Creek Mound.
May 29, 2018 · Moundsville, directed by David Bernabo and John W. Miller -- screened on PBS 2020-2023 and now available for free on YouTube -- is the biography of a classic American town, Moundsville, WV (pop. 4,500), on the Ohio River, where Appalachia hits the Midwest.
