Buckley Island

Buckley Island is an island on the Ohio River in Wood County, West Virginia between Marietta, Ohio and Williamstown, West Virginia.

The Interstate 77 bridge over the Ohio crosses the island's western portion.

[1] The earliest known reference to the island is a 1770 journal entry by George Washington who was surveying the area at the time.

In 1897, the Buckeye and Eureka Pipeline Company bought the island and turned it into an amusement park.

This article about a location in Wood County, West Virginia is a stub.