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City of Weirton company history timeline

1848

1848 Hancock County is created after an attempt to move Brooke's county seat from Wellsburg (as it is then spelled) to the more centrally-located Holliday's Cove fails.

1864

1864 Railroad bridge completed, connecting Holliday's Cove to Steubenville.

1887

1887 May 9: Brutal double ax-murder in Holliday's Cove near Cove School, near where railroad (and crossing at Cove Road) is being built.

1907

1907 Cyrus Ferguson strikes oil in Holliday's Cove.

1909

In 1909 Ernest Tener Weir founded the Weirton Steel Company, which grew to become one of the state’s largest industrial employers.

1918

1918 August 1: On Ernest T. Weir's 43rd birthday, Phillips Sheet and Tin changes its name to Weirton Steel Company.

1931

Weirton Daily Times begins when its predecessor, the Leader News decides to publish more often than twice a week. (In March, 1931, a fire will damage the Times building, destroying the back files to that point.)

1938

1938 Weirton Heights incorporates.

1947

Until 1947, when the town merged with surrounding communities to form the present city, it was one of the nation’s largest unincorporated company towns.

1951

Thomas C. Millsop, President of Weirton Steel, wins landslide victory as first Mayor; he will be reelected handily in 1951.

1956

1956 Ernest T Weir donates $450, 000 for a new public library building for the city of Weirton, to be named in honor of his wife.

1958

1958 June 2: Mary Hayward Weir, widow of Ernest T. Weir, cuts the ribbon opening to the public the library named for her.

1967

1967 Weirton's, "Mill of the Future", the Basic Oxygen Plant (BOP), opens.

1989

1989 April: Weirton Steel completes its twenty-first profitable quarter (out of 21 ) and is ranked 268 on the Fortune 500 list of U. S. industrial corporations.

1992

1992 April Down to 330 on the Fortune 500, Weirton Steel, like several other companies, shows a loss rather than a profit for the last year.

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