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Near Belmont, site of Willow Island Disaster

Farmstead near Duncan, WV, Jackson County, Mid-Ohio Valley Region

A monument in the foreground recalls the 1978 disaster in which 52 workers died at Willow Island, near Belmont, West Virginia, in Pleasants County, in the Mid-Ohio Valley Region.

Wells Island near Sistersville

Blennerhassett Mansion

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