I remember seeing that town when traveling from Beckley to Charleston and being like: wow that town looks bad

Chavez Moore They were Indians then. Just go investigate the census instructions for 1790, 1800, and 180.

It's actually pretty simple. The Navy was only going to keep the Iowa class ships. Those were the fastest, most lethal, best armored, and the newest. Everything else was obsolete. Those ships that became museums quite frankly it boiled down to which donor group could put up the money and politics. Another thing to consider was material condition. The West Virginia even though it had been largely updated/rebuild after the attack on Pearl Harbor was still a 40 year old ship when she was scrapped and I'm sure had her structural issues just from her age. If a donation group had their pickings of all the ships there were to chose from I imagine from a maintenance perspective the older ships were less appealing due to their additional usage. Look at the Texas and her condition vs say the Alabama.

jayss10 The US Navy kept the Iowa’s because of of future use possibilities. The USS West Virginia had no chance of being in another war anyway so her being obsolete makes no difference. She was practically a new ship. Most of her hull was entirely new or rebuilt because of all the torpedo damage she took from the Pearl Harbor attack. That one living ship symbolized the whole war and that’s the whole point of my original comment. West Virginia and the USS Enterprise CVN-6 deserved to be maintained as a museum but the powers that be assured that would never happen regardless of how much effort was put into getting them donated. The fact that she was “old technology” or was almost 40 years old made no difference. SHE WASN’T GOING TO FIGHT AGAIN. In all actuality the only US battleships that deserve to be museums are the USS Missouri and the Wee-Vee (maybe USS Washington) because they symbolize the beginning and end of total world war. As much as I love what battleships represented the majority of the ones that are still on display didn’t really do anything like the previous two I mentioned. They represent a specific era but none of them are remembered for what they actually did. Those details are reserved for us. Thread a book on the Wee Vee several years ago and they said some 85% of her was new. Engines, hull, many other things I can’t recall practically made her a new ship and from a hull standpoint equal in age to the Iowa’s. I understand why she was retired for sure but she was one of the main living symbols of WW 2 and it started with others like her. Before the 80s Iowa refits the Navy actually looked into what would need to be done to reactivate the USS NORTH CAROLINA to help with the 600 ship navy. That ship would have to have over 260,000 shp just to reach a 31 knot top speed but cavitation would be a major problem. They spent tons of money researching it but decided to stick with the Iowa’s

Big Mamie deserved it too. But the Wee Vee even more so.

Atleast she didn't suffer like the modern British ships. Being sent off to scrapyards in turkey

Leave the USS Massachusetts out of this!

Very true. Sadly.

This factory closed down in 2010. and the building has since been torn down to make room for apartments. Wheeling Pittsburgh steel has ceased operation many years ago.

Wait they really tore it down? I haven't been out to Wheeling in years but I thought that place was put on the national registry of historic places. I thought they weren't allowed to tear those down?

@@thenekom idk if it was or not but they tore the whole place down a couple years ago and built low income apartments there