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Marshall County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. At the 2010 census, the population was 33,107. Its county seat is Moundsville. With its southern border at what would be a continuation of the Mason-Dixon line to the Ohio River, it forms the base of the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia. Marshall County is part of the Wheeling, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. Marshall County is home to the largest conical burial mound in North America, at Moundsville. Marshall County was formed in 1835 from Ohio County by act of the Virginia Assembly. In 1852, on Christmas Eve, workers completed the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's connection to the Ohio River at Rosby's Rock in Marshall County. It more recently became home to the New Vrindaban community of Hare Krishnas, and Prabhupada's Palace of Gold.
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[edit] Research Tips[edit] Text from Marshall County, Virginia Page[Marshall County, Virginia was redirected here in conformance to the WeRelate "1900 rule".] Marshall County, Virginia was formed from Ohio County in 1835 and named for John Marshall, for thirty-four years Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Count. Elizabethtown, named as the county seat in the act creating the county, was combined with Moundsville in 1866. It became part of the State of West Virginia when it achieved statehood in 1863. Source: http://www.wvexp.com/index.php/Marshall_County
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