MADDOX CEMETERY TR

PARKERSBURG, WV

Hune Covered Bridge The historic Hune Covered Bridge as it crosses the Little Muskingum River by the national forest's Hune Bridge Campground.

Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks — Hune Covered Bridge Credit: Wayne National Forest

Maddox Cemetery TR is located in Parkersburg, West Virginia. It is a small, peaceful cemetery located in a residential area of the city. The cemetery is well-maintained, with grass and shrubs, and several large trees providing shade.

The cemetery is the final resting place for the Maddox family, who were early settlers in the region. There are several large, ornate headstones, as well as a few smaller, more modest stones. The cemetery is believed to date back to the early 1900s.

The cemetery is a peaceful place to visit and reflect. It is often visited by locals, as well as by visitors who are interested in the history of the area. There are benches and a few picnic tables and a walking path, providing a pleasant area to enjoy the beauty of the cemetery.

Maddox Cemetery TR is a beautiful, peaceful place to visit and reflect. It is a reminder of the area's history, and a tribute to the early settlers who laid the foundations for the Parkersburg community.

MADDOX CEMETERY TR is a Historical Societies, Historic Preservation in PARKERSBURG WV. US MID #8405400065

The museum is classed as HSC (Historical Societies, Historic Preservation). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia).

Pleasants Power Station, Belmont, WV Built in 1977-1980, this coal-fired power station, known as the Pleasants Power Station, stands along the Banks of the Ohio River just downstream of Belmont, West Virginia. The power station was the site of the Willow Island Disaster in 1978, when one of the concrete cooling towers collapsed during construction due to improper quality control of the concrete and a rushed schedule, leading to the deaths of all 51 workers on the scaffolding actively working on building the tower, who were crushed by falling chunks of concrete and metal scaffolding. The Willow Island Disaster is the deadliest single construction accident in the history of the United States. After the disaster, the power plant construction eventually was resumed, and the power station began operations in 1980. It is scheduled to shut down operations on June 1, 2023.

Young, Shrubby Forest A young, shrubby forest that was established through a timber harvest.

This type of habitat has gone by many names over the past decades, including early-successional habitat, young forest, regenerating forest, shrubland, and more. No matter what name you know it by, this habitat has a few key features. First, the trees are young, small, and short. Second, the short vegetation is really dense and filled with herbaceous plants, shrubs, and saplings.

This state of a forest dominated by young trees is fleeting. As the trees get older, the young forest transitions to another type of ecosystem state that looks and acts differently, and supports different plants and animals.

Patches of young forests were historically created by weather events like tornados or windstorms, beaver activity, higher-intensity fires, land clearing by Indigenous peoples, and other types of forces. In more recent times, weather events, timber harvests, and the abandonment of agricultural fields have been responsible for creating this ephemeral ecosystem state.

But there’s been a change in the past 50 years. Patches of young forest have been disappearing across Ohio and throughout the eastern United States. And as this habitat disappears, so too do the animals—like the prairie warbler—that rely on it. Patches of young forests have to be created by some kind of event. Every patch will eventually “age out,” and so for there to continually be enough available for animals to use, there have to continually be forces that create it. And in the past several decades, there haven’t been a lot of forces creating new patches.

To help bolster the declining populations of animals that rely on and use young forests, land stewards across the eastern United States have been creating more patches of it. These patches can be created in a variety of ways. Grass lawns and farm fields can be “let go” and have trees colonize on their own. Old, shrubby fields can be regularly cut back every several years. Patches of trees in a forest over 30 years old can be cut and removed. Such efforts by land stewards—coupled with weather events and other forces—can all help bolster the amount of young forest available across the landscape. And to borrow a famous phrase, “if you build it, they will come.”

Forest Service photo by Kyle Brooks

Contact MADDOX CEMETERY TR

MADDOX CEMETERY TR
23 LAKE DRIVE
PARKERSBURG
WV
26104-9240

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MID #	8405400065
Name	MADDOX CEMETERY TR
Alternate Name
Classification	Historical Societies, Historic Preservation, , Southeastern
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	203299649
NTEECC	A80
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201212
INCOME	0
REVENUE	0
LAT/LONG	39.3113, -81.507093
CODES	FIPS State Code: 54 FIPS County Code: 107 US Census Tract: 010102 US Census Block: 1039