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Clarksburg was not an upstart, or fast-growing city, as defined by historian Daniel Boorstin in his classic study of American development; it never experienced the rapid population growth necessary to be considered a rival to other western settlements.
Clarksburg elites were proto-capitalists; they had the desire and ambition to participate in manufacturing and in an inter-regional market economy on a large scale but lacked the individual financial resources to do so.
Clarksburg elites refused to allow a fire to destroy the image of their town, but its status faced a more serious threat from the advances of technology and the coming of the railroad in the 1850s.
Because of the population base, Clarksburg became, and still is, the main commercial, health care, and professional office location in the region.
Clarksburgs Historic downtown is also home to the largest legal, accounting, and banking community in north central West Virginia.
Because Clarksburg is situated at the intersection of major transportation routes leading into surrounding counties, the citys market population includes the contiguous surrounding rural counties of Harrison, Marion, Taylor, Barbour, Upshur, Lewis, Doddridge, and Wetzel.
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