Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park Superintendent Craig Pyles, front left, and local artist Thomas Stahl, right, unveiled a life-size painting of Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett on Friday ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) -On January 4, 1808, Harman Blennerhassett was released from prison after being found “not guilty” ...

Photo Provided The Blennerhassett Mansion will be open to visitors for a rare evening visit Oct. 12-13 on Blennerhassett Island Historical State Park for the annual Mansion by Candlelight event.

PARKERSBURG, W.Va – What a curious spot for a scandal – an elaborate late-18th-century mansion on a wilderness island in the Ohio River, home to European aristocrats known for their fancy soirees. But ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - One of the most prized possessions of Harman Blennerhassett, the colorful Anglo-Irish Renaissance man and political adventurer who created a short-lived Eden on an Ohio River ...

One enthusiastic spectator who was in the Field of Mars on the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille was an Irish gentleman named Harman Blennerhassett. A native of County Kerry, a graduate of ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — At the turn of the 19th century, the most glittering jewel of the American frontier was located on an island in the Ohio River 12 miles downstream from Marietta. Due to political ...

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - To walk inside one of Ohio’s finest homes from its earliest years of settlement, you have to travel to West Virginia. Maple Shade, the home of Aaron Waldo Putnam and his wife ...

Peacefulness and isolation: These are the qualities that make islands so appealing. Surrounded by water, they fulfill our desire for separation from the day-to-day routine. But isolated as they are, ...