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Shadyside is a village in eastern Belmont County, Ohio, stretched along the Ohio River in the Wheeling metropolitan area.

The area was first known as Pultney Bottom; English-born Daniel McElheran received some 2,200 acres there as payment for Revolutionary War service, and in 1801 Shadyside briefly served as the first county seat of Belmont County before the seat moved in 1804.

Shadyside got its start in 1879 when the railroad was extended to that point as Shady Side Station, was platted in 1901, and was officially incorporated as a village in 1912.

Legend holds the name Shadyside came from a large shade tree at the railroad stop, and the village site had earlier been a tree-lined farm.

The railroad brought factories making soap, ketchup and jelly, marbles, enamelware, and blown glass; the Shadyside Casket Company famously made the casket in which Marilyn Monroe was buried.

On the evening of June 14, 1990, three to six inches of rain fell in under two hours on the ridges west of town, and flash flooding along Pipe Creek, Wegee Creek, and Cumberland Run killed 26 people and destroyed or damaged many buildings in one of Ohio's deadliest flash floods.

The 2020 census counted 3,454 people in Shadyside, and the 2010 census counted 1,717 households in the village.

Shadyside covers just about one square mile of land along State Route 7, making it one of the more densely settled villages on the Ohio side of the river.

Local students attend Shadyside Local Schools, and Shadyside High School's football team, the Tigers, is a small-school power that has twice finished as state runner-up and plays at Fleming Field.

Fleming Field is named for Don Fleming, a 1956 Shadyside graduate who died in a construction accident in 1963.