Bellaire is a village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 3,870 at the 2020 census, having had its height in 1920. It is allocation of the Wheeling metropolitan area.

The Bellaire Bridge (now on your own and closed) was filmed in the 1991 hobby picture The Silence of the Lambs. The curved railroad viaduct and bridge higher than the Ohio, the B & O Railroad Viaduct, were featured in the 2010 film Unstoppable and is a registered historic structure. A logo featuring the historic rock bridge is featured on official village organization as without difficulty as on police uniforms, and was expected by former resident Michael A. Massa, creator of the Belmont county seal, under the Administration of former City Mayor Fitch.

Mound builders occupied numerous areas along the Ohio River and built mysterious earthworks. None of their distinctive out of date remains has been found within the present-day city limits. The Mingo, Shawnee and Delaware were historic tribes who inhabited the Place at the grow old of European act and settlement. The latter were lively in the Northwest Indian Wars after unity began in the post-Revolutionary War years. Unhappy that the United States had ignored their grievances in the 1789 Treaty of Fort Harmar, the Indians tried to shove out the settlers exceeding the bordering several years.

The first documented European visitors to the Ohio River Valley and this Place were French trappers and priests in the into the future and mid-1700s. They were impressed later the river’s heavily wooded and hilly shores, and subsequently the abundance of fish and wildlife. The juvenile George Washington had explored and surveyed lands in the Ohio River Valley since the Revolutionary War. After the war, he supported plans to have the federal supervision make house grants to veterans as payment for their services, in lieu of cash.