Wheeling West Virginia Signified to Native Americans as "Place of a Skull."

Wheeling West Virginia Signified to Native Americans as "Place of a Skull."

Wheeling, in the Delaware language, signified the "Place of a Skull" and was given by them to the location upon which the city of Wheeling now stands.


Chilicothe, meaning "The Town" was so called by the western tribes because of the ancient ruins in its vicinity.

Burial Mound in Wheeling, West Virginia

Burial Mound in Wheeling, West Virginia

History of the West Virginia Panhandle  1879
Burial Mound in Wheeling, West Virginia
     Midway between where Messrs. Hobbs, Brockunier & Company glass works stands and the banks of the river was one of the relics of the mound builders. This, though, but a small mound, was very prolific in the articles of the Stone Age.