Blennerhassett Island

Images of America: Blennerhassett Island reveals for the first time the pictorial past of the Ohio River s most famous island. Located one-and-a-half miles west of Parkersburg, West Virginia, it sprang into national fame two centuries ago as the headquarters of Aaron Burr s 1806 1807 conspiracy to create an empire in the Southwest. The island also was renowned as the site of the American West s most beautiful home: the legendary Blennerhassett Mansion, completed in 1800 only to be destroyed by fire 11 years later. This

volume s more than 200 fascinating pictures most never published before will take the reader on an exciting adventure through time, beginning with the island s glamorous Burr/Blennerhassett years; through its 19th century steamboat era; and into the 20th century, when it became the playground of the Mid-Ohio Valley. The final images portray the 1980 creation of Blennerhassett Island as a popular West Virginia state park with the reconstructed

Blennerhassett Mansion as its centerpiece."