UPDATED: 11-25-2022
PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA:   A VINTAGE PORTRAIT

MARRTOWN



In this 1897 photo looking west along the Little Kanawha River toward its confluence with the Ohio River, the village of Marrtown, below Fort Boreman, is on the left, Parkersburg is on the right, and the Juliana Street Bridge and Ann Street Railroad Bridge are straight ahead.




Here's another angle, looking southward down Juliana Street toward Marrtown on the other side of
the Little Kanawha. The Wood County courthouse is in the lower left.
(Photo by Harry Barnett, courtesy of Dan Kemper.)




Looking south at Marrtown and the Little Kanawha River from an airplane in the 1960s.
The Juliana Street bridge is on the left. (Photo by Harry Barnett, courtesy of Dan Kemper.)



This is what Marrtown, sitting in the shadow of Fort Boreman at the southern end of the old Juliana Street bridge, looked like in the 1940s and '50s. The streets were Lubeck Road and Bradley Avenue. The houses were later torn down, and now the newly opened Route 50 runs through. (Thanks to Roger Mackey)




Looking across the Little Kanawha toward Marrtown from near the Point, around 1910.




Looking south toward Marrtown, with Fort Boreman behind it, in the early twentieth century. The
Juliana Street bridge is on the left. The photo below continues westward toward the right.
(Thanks to Dan Kemper.)





Looking south toward Marrtown in the early twentieth century. The Ohio River Railroad bridge is on the right.
(Thanks to Dan Kemper.)





A traffic jam along the Marrtown side of the Little Kanawha in the early 20th century.
(Courtesy of Dan Kemper.)




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