Tenth Street in Downtown Wheeling Closed Thursday for Pavement Markings
Ohio County, WV – Tenth Street, in Wheeling, will be closed from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 6, 2025, for pavement markings. Emergency vehicles and local business traffic will be accommodated. Motorists are advised to use an alternate route.
Alternate Routes: Use 16th Street to Market Street and Seventh Street to Main Street.
ALSO, County Route 15 (Warden Run Road), in Wheeling, from milepost 3.08 to milepost 3.09, will be closed, from 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., beginning Thursday, November 6, 2025, through late November 2025, for a slip repair. Motorists must use an alternate route. Emergency vehicles and school buses will be accommodated.
Alternate Route: Use County Route 25 (Peter’s Run Road), and WV 88 (Oglebay Drive).
Inclement weather or unforeseen circumstances could change the schedule for these projects.
Tenth Street in Downtown Wheeling Closed Thursday for Pavement Markings
Ohio County, WV – Tenth Street, in Wheeling, will be closed from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 6, 2025, for pavement markings. Emergency vehicles and local business traffic will be accommodated. Motorists are advised to use an alternate route.
Alternate Routes: Use 16th Street to Market Street and Seventh Street to Main Street.
ALSO, County Route 15 (Warden Run Road), in Wheeling, from milepost 3.08 to milepost 3.09, will be closed, from 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., beginning Thursday, November 6, 2025, through late November 2025, for a slip repair. Motorists must use an alternate route. Emergency vehicles and school buses will be accommodated.
Alternate Route: Use County Route 25 (Peter’s Run Road), and WV 88 (Oglebay Drive).
Inclement weather or unforeseen circumstances could change the schedule for these projects.
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Tenth Street in Downtown Wheeling Closed Thursday for Pavement Markings
Ohio County, WV – Tenth Street, in Wheeling, will be closed from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Thursday, November 6, 2025, for pavement markings. Emergency vehicles and local business traffic will be accommodated. Motorists are advised to use an alternate route.
Alternate Routes: Use 16th Street to Market Street and Seventh Street to Main Street.
ALSO, County Route 15 (Warden Run Road), in Wheeling, from milepost 3.08 to milepost 3.09, will be closed, from 7:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., beginning Thursday, November 6, 2025, through late November 2025, for a slip repair. Motorists must use an alternate route. Emergency vehicles and school buses will be accommodated.
Alternate Route: Use County Route 25 (Peter’s Run Road), and WV 88 (Oglebay Drive).
Inclement weather or unforeseen circumstances could change the schedule for these projects.
Read the full article
Richmond supports three daily newspapers: the “Dispatch” and the “Times,” morning issues, and the “State,” an afternoon paper. The Richmond Dispatch is the oldest of the Richmond dailies. It was founded by James A. Cowardin and W. H. Davis, both practical printers, in 1850. Its first appearance was made on the morning of October 19th, of that year. The paper was well received from the beginning, and rapidly attained a good circulation.
(Newspapers.com) — the slightly creepy, Illuminati-inspired logo of the Richmond Enquirer — from the Friday, September 16, 1842 edition
Owing, however, to the competition of the Whig and the Enquirer, the great political dailies of Richmond at that day, it was not immediately successful as an advertising medium. This fact discouraged Mr. Davis, and in a few months he disposed of his interest to Mr. Cowardin. For some years thereafter the Dispatch was published in the names of James A. Cowardin as proprietor, and Hugh R. Pleasants, editor. The latter was employed as editor when the partnership of Cowardin & Davis was formed.
[CDRVA] — Old Dominion Steamship Company advertisement in Chataigne’s 1881 Directory of Richmond
When success' at length became a certainty, its plant was moved from the orignal building, on Governor street, just above Main, to the building corner of Thirteenth and Main streets, the site of the present Old Dominion Steamship offices. Here the Dispatch was comfortably housed, and was equipped with the best outfit obtainable at that period. Just in the rear of its place was the “Dispatch Job Office” of J. D. Hammersley & Co. Mr. Hammersley managed the counting-room of the paper, and during the war acquired a half interest in it.
(Library of Congress) — Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Richmond (1905) — Plate 7 — showing the former location of the Dispatch Building
Mr. Oliver P. Baldwin succeeded Mr. Pleasants as editor, though, at one time, both were upon the editorial staff ; and Mr. Cowardin also contributed to the editorial columns when his other engagements permitted. During the war the outfit of the Dispatch was worn completely out, and as a new one could not be procured inside the Confederate lines, Mr. Hammersley undertook to run the blockade to England, and supply what was needed. Before sailing, however, he sold half his interest to Mr. James W. Llewellen, who had long been the local editor of the Dispatch.
(Essential Civil War Curriculum) — Harper’s Weekly illustration — The Union Blockade of the Southern States by Robert M. Browning, Jr.
Mr. Hammersley was successful in his undertaking to the extent of getting the new outfit through the blockade and into the Dispatch building, but before it could be used it was destroyed, along with the building, in the Evacuation fire, April 3, 1865.
(Find A Grave) — Henry Keeling Ellyson, newspaperman & principal figure in the 1870 Municipal War
It was not until the December following that the Dispatch was revived. Mr. Cowardin and Mr. H. K. Ellyson formed a copartnership, (which continued uninterruptedly* until the former’s death) and began anew in the building on Thirteenth street, just in the rear of the present offices of the Postal Telegraph Company. There were seven competitors in the field when the Dispatch was re-established ; but by enterprise and good management it forged rapidly to the front again, and is now, in every respect, fulfilling its mission as a first-class newspaper. It has the largest circulation of any paper between Baltimore and New Orleans, and its columns bear ample testimony to the value it has in the opinion of the advertising public.
(Yesteryear Once More) — advertisement for the R. Hoe & Co. printing press
In the matter of its mechanical equipment the Dispatch has always been advanced. In November, 1887, it put in a Hoe perfecting press with a capacity of 24,000 copies an hour, and its outfit, from press-room to composing-room, is a model of completeness. It has its own press wire running into the building, a full editorial and local staff, its resident correspondent at Washington, and special correspondents at all important points in Virginia and North Carolina. It issues a Daily and a Weekly, its Sunday edition eighteen or twelve pages, as occasion may require.
(Find A Grave) — William Dallas Chesterman
In 1882, a short time before the death of Mr. Cowardin, the copartnership of Cowardin & Ellyson was dissolved and a joint stock company was formed with the former owners as principal officers. The present officers of the Company are: C. O’B. Cowardin, president; H. Theo. Ellyson, secretary and treasurer; W. D. Chesterman, vice-president.
July 2019 — looking towards 920-922 East Main Street
By 1900, the Dispatch was owned by John L. Williams, who also owned the Richmond News. The end of the Gilded Age was a time of consolidation, and Williams, along with Joseph Bryan, owner of the Richmond Times and Manchester Leader, concluded that there were too many newspapers to go around for the available circulation. The Times and the Dispatch were merged in 1903 to become the Richmond Times-Dispatch that we have today.
[MCR] — shaded areas showing Evacuation Fire destruction & future location of the Dispatch Building
The block on which the Dispatch Building stood was reduced to ashes by the ever-popular Evacuation Fire, and it would be erected in the post-war construction boom that remade the city landscape. It met its doom in 1962 when an addition to the State Planter’s Bank was built, creating today’s Pocahontas Building.
(The Dispatch Building is part of the Atlas RVA! Project)
Print Sources
[CDRVA] Chataigne’s Directory of Richmond, Va. J. H. Chataigne. 1881.
[MCR] Map of the City of Richmond, Virginia, 1861-65. Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee. 1961. Library of Virginia.
[RVCJ93] Richmond, Virginia: The City on the James: The Book of Its Chamber of Commerce and Principal Business Interests. G. W. Engelhardt. 1893.
(Library of Congress) — Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Richmond (1905) — Plate 16
David A. Ainslie, 8 to 12 South Tenth street, is the largest manufacturer of fine carriages and wagons south of the Potomac and Ohio rivers.
He is successor to his father, George A. Ainslie, who was president of the Chamber of Commerce for several terms here, and was, in his lifetime, one of the most prominent and progressive business men of the city.
(Library of Congress) — Beers Illustrated Atlas of the Cities of Richmond & Manchester, 1877 — Plate K — showing ownership by G. A. Ainslie
The business of this house was established by Mr. George A. Ainslie and partners in 1855. The war dissolved that connection, and after it Mr. Ainslie resumed on his own account. He was succeeded by a partnership of his sons, in which he was interested, in 1879, and Mr. David A. Ainslie succeeded that partnership about two years ago. [RVCJ93]
[MCR] — shaded areas showing Evacuation Fire destruction & location of G. A. Ainslie’s carriage works
Of course, if G. A. Ainslie owned the property depicted above prior to the war, then whatever stood at that location was destroyed by the pitiless Evacuation Fire that gutted much of the downtown on April 1865.
What fun it must have been to be a Confederate fleeing the city — start a blaze and skedaddle. Hoo-wee!
This factory covers an "L" of ground fronting 100 feet on Tenth street and bending through to Cary. It is four stories high, and has a modern equipment of machinery and appliances to facilitate manufacture. It provides employment to 50 or 60 hands, and its product is valued at $225,000 to $250,000 a year, besides which the house, acting as sales agent, disposes of considerable work made in the North and West.
Its specialty is, however, work of its own manufacture, particularly apparatus for fire departments. A hose reel was exhibited by it at the New Orleans World’s Exposition which secured first prize, and it will show work of the same sort at the coming Chicago World’s Fair. It is the only manufacturer of work of this sort in the South.
June 2019 — looking towards 8-12 South Tenth Street
A vast amount of light ordered work is made by it for local patrons and for the trade in this and the adjacent States. This work is constructed of the very finest material and has the highest reputation hereabouts for style and finish, and durability also as well.
Mr. Ainslie is himself a member of the Chamber, and an active participant in all its movements to forward Richmond and develop its field. [RVCJ93]
June 2019 — looking towards 912 East Cary Street
He was also, at the time of the publication of the 1893 edition of Richmond, Virginia: The City on the James, single. That would change 14 years later in 1907 when at the age of 52 he married Inez Withers Montague, the 50-year-old widow of Percy Montague who had died in 1902. Unfortunately, the state of their marital bliss was not long-lived, and Inez died in April 1915.
There is no record that records David’s mental state in the aftermath of her death, but by the 1930s the native Richmonder had relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. (Ancestry)
(Emporis) — looking towards United Virginia Bank Insurance Headquarters (center)
One factor in his change of venue may have been the fate of former place of business. In 1912, the entire area where his “L” shaped carriage works were located was acquired to make way for another of Richmond’s early skyscrapers. Ironically, the United Virginia Bank Insurance Headquarters building that replaced it was itself replaced by the Crestar (now SunTrust) Plaza in 1982.
(D. A. Ainslie's Carriage Works is part of the Atlas RVA! Project)
Print Sources
[MCR] Map of the City of Richmond, Virginia, 1861-65. Richmond Civil War Centennial Committee. 1961. Library of Virginia.
[RVCJ93] Richmond, Virginia: The City on the James: The Book of Its Chamber of Commerce and Principal Business Interests. G. W. Engelhardt. 1893.
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Miller & Miller
324 South Sixth Street
Established, 1895
[RVCJ03] — facing southwest towards Gamble’s Hill — circa 1903
Got wood?
(LOC) — Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Richmond (1905) — Plate 11
Continuing the exploration of RVA’s turn-of-the-century lignum industria magnus, one finds that Montague Manufacturing Company was in close proximity to several competitors.
[RVCJ03] — the studs of Miller & Miller — circa 1903
Close inspection of the Engelhardt print above shows the business nestled in a wedge of land just south of the Kanawha Canal. Pratt’s Castle is clearly visible on the hill at right, and Tredegar Iron Works at left.
July 2017 — facing southwest towards Gamble’s Hill
Miller & Miller manufactured sashes, doors, blinds, packing cases, and crates, with a specialty in store fixtures and fine interior finishes. Today, the area on which the plant stood has been long consumed by the voracious Downtown Expressway.
W.J. Whitehurst
1001 Byrd Street
Established, 1882
[RVCJ03] — facing southeast towards Byrd and Tenth Streets — circa 1903
North of the canal, just four blocks east, stood W.J. Whitehurst. To the right one can see the Southern Railway Depot, located at Fourteenth & Canal Streets, which had been built in 1900.
(LOC) — Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Richmond (1905) — Plate 15
Similar to both Montague and Miller & Miller, W.J. Whitehurst manufactured sash, blinds, doors, and other building materials. What matters a little friendly competition between rivals?
[RVCJ03] — the chief stud hisself — circa 1903
There was plenty of business to go ‘round. The houses and apartment buildings in the emerging neighborhoods at the turn of the century, such as the Fan, Oregon Hill, or Jackson Ward, are likely to contain products produced from one or another of these Giants of the Wood Biz.
July 2017 — facing northeast towards Byrd & Tenth Streets
While this area north of the canal survived the Expressway, the face of the landscape has changed considerably. Given downtown’s recent penchant for construction of large public buildings (McGuire/Woods, the new Dominion office tower), it’s going to continue.
Source
[RVCJ03] Richmond, Virginia: The City on the James: The Book of Its Chamber of Commerce and Principal Business Interests. G. W. Engelhardt. 1903.
