Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia Good Shepherd in Parkersburg in 1891. In 1899, Peterkin found visitations increasingly difficult and asked for a bishop coadjutor, the diocesan convention elected Rev. William Loyall Gravatt of Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town, West Virginia. Upon Rt.Rev. Peterkin's death in 1916, Rt. Rev. Gravatt moved the diocesan headquarters to Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital, where they are again today, although moved to Wheeling under the episcopate of his successor, Robert E.L. Strider. The diocese is headquartered on Virginia Street in Charleston, a few blocks from the West Virginia State Capitol, in a house known as Diocesan Center. It
U.S. Route 220 in West Virginia U.S. Route 220 in West Virginia U.S. Route 220 (US 220) is a U.S. Highway that travels from Rockingham, North Carolina, to Waverly, New York. In the state of West Virginia, it travels for from the Virginia state line south of Harper to the Maryland state line at Keyser. The highway enters West Virginia south of Harper in Pendleton County. From the state line, US 220 parallels the South Branch Potomac River as it progresses northward. north of Harper, US 220 travels through Franklin, where it intersects US 33. The highway enters Grant County approximately north of Franklin. Within Grant