blennerhassett's

Updated: June 7, 2025

There were only half-a-dozen houses in 1800, and Parkersburg itself was not laid out until ten years later. Blennerhassett's Island lies two miles below a broad, dark mass of forest, at the head joined by a dam to the West Virginia shore, from which it is separated by a slender channel.

Reuben Gold Thwaites - Afloat on the Ohio: An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo

"A man walks forward, or he walks backward. There's no standing still in this world or the next. Where were you after New Orleans, before you turned homeward?" "At Mr. Blennerhassett's island in the Ohio. And that's a pleasant place and a pleasant gentleman " "Listen!" "Aye," answered the other; "I heard it some moments back. Some one is fiddling beyond that tulip tree."

Mary Johnston - Lewis Rand