Hollidays Cove

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Hollidays Cove was a town founded in 1793. The Weirton Cyclopedia states that Hollidays Cove was the earliest permanent white settlement in what was then Hancock County, West Virginia. This settlement was named after John Holliday, who built a log cabin along a cove on Harmon's Creek in 1776.

In April 1909 the Phillips Sheet and Tin Plate Company of Clarksburg (E.T. Weir, President) bought 105 acres of apple orchard north of Hollidays Cove. By the end of the year, ten mills were operating on the site, and a boomtown called Weirton had begun to grow up near the mills. In 1912 Hollidays Cove became incorporated.

After an April referendum passed, on July 1, 1947 the City of Weirton was created by merging incorporated and unincorporated areas of Weirton, Weirton Heights, Marland Heights and Hollidays Cove. Thomas C. Millsop, President of Weirton Steel, won a landslide victory as the first [Mayor] of Weirton.