In the early 1900's, in conjunction with the building of Shattuck Park on the South side of the Little Kanawha River in Parkersburg, West Virginia, by Charles Shattuck, the man behind Terripan Park, it was required that a bridge be built across the Little Kanawha River so that people would have easier access to the grandeur of the new Shattuck Park. The bridge was connected to the park by a new wide boulevard, named "Camden Avenue" after industrialist and U.S. Senator, Johnson Newton Camden, whose home at 717 Ann St. became Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital in 1920.
The East Street Bridge was recently demolished and replaced with a new wider bridge. The New bridge was named in honor of the late former Mayor of Parkersburg, William "Bill" Nicely. |
