Note 101 — TWO YEARS' RESIDENCE, &c. &c.
Reading edition
For the Little Kanawha River, see Croghan's Journals, volume i of our series, note 98.
The site of Parkersburg was held under patent by Adam Parker, who in 1817 laid out the town. Incorporated in 1820, it grew but little until the discovery (1864) of petroleum in the immediate vicinity gave it new life, and it is now one of the wealthiest cities in West Virginia.—Ed.