12 x 20 foot mural at the Wheeling Civic Center - French exploration of the Ohio Valley, by Mark Missman. The mural was designed to commemorate the presence of the French explorers and their Jesuit companions in the Upper Ohio Valley. In 1749, Captain Celeron was sent on a mission from Quebec down the Allegheny and Ohio Rivers to reassert the ownership of the French over the Ohio Valley. A plaque was buried at the confluence of the Ohio River and Wheeling Creek.