those voters from northwestern virginia, who were overwhelmingly against secession, they would come backo this side of the mountains in west virginia. they would have mass meetings, public meetings, to decide what northwestern virginia would do, and they decided they needed to have a place for a more formal convention and wheeling would be the place rest to have that convention. it would be safe, given that it is this wedge of land between the great and powerful union states of ohio and pennsylvania. there were safety there. it was a place for them to meet, to formulate a plan, and to embark upon one of the most incredible experiments in our american history and the only successful secession movement in american history. there were a lot of issues that brought this thing to a head. it came about over decades. they had issues to do with taxation and representation. for western virginians who were not large slaveholders like eastern virginians were -- at the beginning of 1861, there were 475,000 slaveholders in the state of virginia before dismemberment, and only up rocks 18,000 -- approxi

those voters from northwestern virginia, who were overwhelmingly against secession, they would come back to this side of the mountains in west virginia. they would have mass meetings, public meetings, to decide what northwestern virginia would do and they decided they needed to have a place for a more formal convention and wheeling would be the place rest to have that convention. it would be safe, given that it is this wedge of land between the great and powerful union states of ohio and pennsylvania. there were safety there. it was a place for them to meet, to formulate a plan, and to embark upon one of the most incredible experiments in our american history, and the only successful secession movement in american history. there were a lot of issues that brought this thing to a head. it came about over decades. they had issues to do with taxation and representation. for western virginians who were not large slaveholders like eastern virginians were -- at the beginning of 1861, there were 475,000 slaveholders in the state of virginia before dismemberment, and only up rocks -- -- approxima

those delegates from northwestern virginia who were overwhelmingly against it, would come back to the mountains in west virginia, they would have mass meetings, public meetings to decide what west virginia would do. and they decided they needed a place for more formal convention and that wheeling would be the place to have that convention. it would be safe, given that it's stuck in this wedge of land between the great and powerful union states of ohio and pennsylvania. so there was safety there. and so it provides a place for them to meet to formulate a plan and to embark upon one of the most incredible experiments in our american history. and the only successful secession needed in american history as well. there were a lot of issues that brought this thing to a head. as i said it came about over decades. and they had had issues to do with taxation representation. four western virginians who were not large slave large shave holders. there was 471,000 before dismemberment, and of those 470,000 only 18000 were in west virginia. and the laws of virginia was the three fits roul. the more

northwestern virginia panhandle of eastern west virginia and northern maryland rainfall amount .2 inchwn at pa tucks et. our computer forecast going forward for how much more rain we may get. potentially another half inch to an inch or more the farther south you live or travel today. a shot of rain possible later this afternoon as you get a little weather front to come through. again, there's our computer model. heavy rain pushing out. here is noontime today. there's 2:00 that first batch of heavy rain moving out. a weather front coming through the area could bridge a scattered shower or two along about 3:00 4:00 in the metro. don't turn your back on the rain chances after lunchtime today. seven-day forecast it's indeed going to be a nice day tomorrow. tuesday looks good as well. keeping a very close eye on wednesday as there will be an opportunity for a little alberta clipper coming our way. again, not everyone is going to get snow but i wouldn't be surprised to see one to three inches somewhere in our viewing area as we get towards wednesday afternoon and drying back out later in the

he succeeded his father as a bank president of a bank in wheeling called the northwestern bank of virginia succeeded his dad as president in 1876. he was 28 years old, the youngest bank resident in the united states. -- president in the united states. he saw people were getting into steel, and iron, and iron or. he realized where the future was area that is when he decided to get fully revolved -- involved in working with iron mines. when you was 31 years old, he married to sallie howell. her parents were involved in a lot of wheeling's bank industry. they were very social. she lived down the street from him which was neat. they were happily married for many years. she passed away before he did from competitions of whooping cough -- complications of whooping cough. there had one daughter sarita named after her mom. she was of the love of their life. she was lovely tall -- much taller than the average woman about 5'11", which was unusual at that time. because he saw a lot of opportunity in our door, he saw the iron or mines opening up, so he located the family in cleveland. that is where hi

young man, he succeeded his father as a bank president of a bank in wheeling called the northwestern bank of virginiahe succeeded his dad as president in 1876. he was 28 years old, the youngest bank president in the united states. he saw at that time, the opportunity that people were getting into steel and iron and iron ore. he realized where the future was. that is when he decided to get fully involved in opening up and working with iron ore mines. in 1881, when he was 31 years old, he married to sallie howell. her parents were involved in a lot of wheeling banking industry. they were very social. she lived down the street from him, which was kind of neat. they were happily married for many years. she passed away before he did from complications, of all things, of whooping cough. there had one daughter sarita, spanish for "little sarah," named after her mom. she was of the love of their life. she was lovely, tall -- much taller than the average woman of that time period. she was about 5'11", which was unusual at that time. because he saw a lot of opportunity iron ore, he saw the iron ore mines openi

this includes you in northwestern montgomery county washington and then morgan and berkeley counties in west virginia and back where we're going to continue to see a few slick spots especially elevated surfaces but look at live super doppler radar showing you much of the rain across the area. moisture will come to an end here. i think we'll get a little break to the middle of the afternoon but i do think the rain is going to be returning for the evening drive. moving in from the west. heading towards the east. 37 is our temperature downtown so well above the freezing mark but it feels close to it with our sotherly breeze so our hour-by-hour forecast will show you we are expecting temperatures to be dropping back below freezing again overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning so even though the rain cuts off, anything wet will refreeze and create some black ice concerns by tomorrow morning. i'll have more details on that and when we can expect some sunshine around here. that's with the seven day forecast 10 minutes from now. back to you. >> all right. thank you so much, jacqui. >> coming up on abc 7

northwestern suburbs have winter weather advisories. you can see we've got the freezing rain advisories in eastern ohio and pittsburgh area. all this area in purple from northern pennsylvania, the eastern west virginia mountains, the panhandle and areas into northern maryland, carroll, upper montgomery, west. also northern virginia in loudoun county west under those winter weather advisories. here's what's coming. a mix of snow, sleet, some freezing rain. kind after wintry mix. it's not too heavy in most spots. the air it's coming into is very dry. i'm not sure how much of this will survive the trip over the mountains but i think we're going to get some. right now we're fine. this stuff out to the west, this is moving east like 40 to 45 miles an hour. so it's already toward romney. it's past cumberland. in fact, it's almost into western washington county. i think it will be in hancock here in another 10 or 15 minutes. you get into win chester, maybe in the next hour. i know there are a couple of school districts in this part of the world, northern virginia that will get out an hour early in advance of this weather because we're still dealing with temperatures north that are in the upper 20s and low