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30 The Magazine of the Location: On Rumsey Avenue in Shepherdstown, overlook ing the Potomac River. Named for the inventor of the steamboat. In 1782, James Rumsey tried his steamboat on the river here. In 1787, George Washington was among those who watched another successful dem...
... see 1967 notes. 17. GROUNDS AND FORMAL GARDEN AT POPODICON 1959 Location: ¼ mile west of Shepherdstown on Shepherd Grade. Popodicon, the home of the Potts family and Mrs. H. H. Wil liams, was built in 1907 by Henry W. Potts, and named for the
... types of flower arrangement will be featured. 4. BELLE VUE 1961 Location: ¼ mile west of Shepherdstown on Shepherd Grade. Home of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shepherd. With the exception of a twenty-year interval in the last century, Belle Vue has been in the present owner's family for s...
...8-29, 1962 1. EPISCOPAL RECTORY Location: On New Street, between King and Church Streets, Shepherdstown. Built in 1814, the house was sold a year later by George Spangler to Thomas Van Swearingen, who lived in it two years and sold it to John Baker. Mr. Baker was a U. S. Congress...
...uty. 14. High Acres Farm: see 1965 notes. 15. Harper House: see 1967 notes. NINTH TOUR 1. Shepherdstown Public Library: see 2. John B. Shepherd Farm: see 1965 3. Altair: see 1965 notes. 4. Huxley Hall: see 1965 notes. 5. BOYDVILLE Apr. 27-28, 1963 1966 notes. notes. 1963 Location...
.... John E. Stewart have furriishd it. 13. G ....___ 0 OR 1965 Location: 1 ½ miles we ·t of Shepherdstown on Route 45. t tone anor the home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred E. Gates, _..., d ign d built, landscaped, and decorated by the owners, a ervantl horn with convenience and ea y upkeep a...
...er miles outh of Shepherds town ten miles north of Charles Town on the old Charles Town -Shepherdstown road. '' lm\vood ' wa built in 1797 on land occupied by Edward Luca II in 1732 and granted to him in 1751 by Thomas, Lord airfax. t b came the home of uccessive generations of ...
...1tick, 545 South Mildred Street, l1arles Town~ Recordi11g Secretary - Miss Linnie Schley, Shepherdstown. Treasi,rer -Miss Juliana Taylor, East First Avenue, Charles Town. Co"esponding ecretary - Dr. Howard Allen, East First Avenue, l1ar)es Town. Curator -Mr . Robert T. Browse, So...
... (Footstone:) E. R. C. SARAH ELIZABETH BROWN/ WIFE OF/ WM. NATHANIEL CRAIGHILL. / Born in Shepherdstown / Jefferson County Va. / August 16, 1811, / Died in Charlestown / Jefferson County, West Virginia / September 28, 1887 / Let her own works praise her. WM. NATHANIEL CRAIGHILL /...
...~ ,(....,~.,a,,,:..,-.. ' '' :-.sn-:.~ ~" :'t'---~ ''Pack Horse Ford on the Potomac below Shepherdstown about 1850 '', a recent painting by Garnet W. Jex, -presented by him to the Society in 1969.
...n the Potomac River below hepherdstown about 1 50 . l11 1 ~ation i about one nule ea t of Shepherdstown on the River Road. Tl1e famou cro sing has been known also a Blackford' Ford and Boteler Ford from the names of nearby landowners and as the l1epl1erd t() n Ford. broad flat le...
... Much of the information about the Cement Mill was obtained by searching the files of the SHEPHERDSTOWN REGISTER in which paper the eminent editor, the late H.L. Snyder, devoted so much space to his articles on local history.
...sted that some of these be held at various locations in the County. The August meeting in Shepherdstown was in response to this recommenda tion. The valuable collection of books built up over a period of some years and stored in the Hilleary House are to be placed in the Charles...
...ohn Y. McDonald, Charles Town· Major Thornton T. Perry, Charles Town; M iss Linnie chley, Shepherdstown· Admiral T.M. Stokes, Charles Town. Publications Committee-Dr. Washington, Miss Schley, John A. Wa hington William H. Wilson Archie W. Franzen. E,neritt,s Officers- Miss Margar...
...nado in Augu t 1954. A dozen gaping holes were made in the fence. Two tone mason from the Shepherdstown area made repairs. A ection was torn out to discover the pattern of the dry wall fence. Concrete f oater were poured to secure the foundation. The center of the rebuilt fence w...
...She will long be remembered as a lovel and intelligent lady and ''an honorary native'' of Shepherdstown where she came as a young married woman and which she loved so much. Mr. Kenamond remains at the nursing home and welcomes letters and vi it from friends. Library and Museum Th...
...rved unbroken for its entire 200-year history, and that coverage of its activities by the Shepherdstown Regi,ster was most generous, its editors having been Lutheran. From these and other sources, the author has done her work of research and documentation well. Dates and events i...
... by 1762 • the English teacher here was Robert ockburn. ome outstanding early teachers in Shepherdstown were J .S. Pierce R.L. Fray Jo eph McMurran, and Miss L.B. Davenport. Jame Boyden' diary (Vol. XXXII, 1966) gives a most amusing account of a Middleway private school in 1837-8...
...ohn Yates on this plot, only for such time as it shall be used as such." In District 3 in Shepherdstown-''between Princess and New Street, being 2/3 of lot 20 between Baker, White, Taylor-owners of part of lot 120 for $100." For ¼ acre in Bolivar, District 21, school commissioner...
...nial celebration which began in September of this year. Growth of Public Free Schools The Shepherdstown Register in I 855 reported that 27 schools were in operation. The operating cost, which possibly included building funds for the year, was stated: ''from the sheriff $9,862; fr...
... Slonaker. Often plagued by lack of appropriations, there were times when the citizens of Shepherdstown provided funds for the School's survival. The emergence of an attractively housed institution with over 2000 students is a tribute to the interest and self sacrifice of many fa...
...The Society acknowledges with appreciation a gift of money in memory of Mr. Walter Jex of Shepherdstown, a Life Member, who passed away on August 8, 1971. The 1972 Magazine Articles being considered include the 1849 Diary of Susan Wood Keyes, more on the early Van Swearingens, an...
...liarity with the byroads. Street by street inspections have been made in Charles Town and Shepherdstown. This activity resulted from recommendations made by Mr .. Wright in a three day preliminary survey of the County in April, and enthusiastically endorsed by a large gathering i...
...rson County Historical Society 15 ..,,,,,.,,,I fl I e •• ,. T,vo vie\VS of German Street, Shepherdstown, 1972. • • • • . . '
... whether this barbecue was really held was answered by research in the bound files of the Shepherdstown REGISTER for 1858. It did take place and John H. Zittle, the editor and proprietor, gave much space to the affair, beginning with advance notices in July and a lengthy story of...
...greater rate of speed on her first trial trip than Rumsey's rudely constucted boat did at Shepherdstown, twenty years before. It's a long story, full of melancholy interest- that about James Rumsey, his various inventions, his life-long struggle, and his untimely death. I have no...
...contemplating it, strains of martial music came floating on the air from the direction of Shepherdstown, which summoned us back to the hill above the spring, from whence we had a full view of the procession as it approached and filed into the inclosure. First came the military-ei...
...! -. --I ' ) ' -.... ---~ ---? .__,..._ J. ~ 'f R & ' ' WE.LOOKI-'' patriotic citizens of Shepherdstown and its vicinity, where a company of riflemen, consisting of more than a hundred men, was immediately raised ''for the protection of American liberty.'' The officers of this ce...
54 The Magazine of the Notes from the bound files of the Shepherdstown REGISTER August 7, 1858, Saturday The Military Project John H. Zittle, Editor and Proprietor Pursuant to previous notice the ''Hamtramck Guards'' and a large number of citizens of this place and vicinity assem...
...tary unit the oratory the dinner and tl1e ho pitality. The ontinentals spent the night in Shepherdstown and marcl1ed to Kear11eysville the next morning stopping at the home of Dr. Butler where they were again entertained. They topped at Martin burg tl1at evening and got back to C...
...mentation of place ur1der con ideration. Word ha been received that an entire district in Shepherdstown has been de 1gnated. It i u11dersto d tl1at the area includes the original 96 lot laid out in 1762 by the founder Thomas Shepherd. This is the first di trict in tl1e tate to be...
...ed in an article entitled ''Desperation'' in 1871. Were we to say that the Court House at Shepherdstown has no roof to it or that the jail there has no doors to it we should feel that our credit for veracity-or sanity-(most likely the fo1111er) would be greatly impaired, and yet ...
...ll the brick and property of the Court House and Jail in 1869. This was an attempt by the Shepherdstown based court which was in the process of building a new court house in hepherdstown and saw no reason to save the Charles Town remains. However some Charles Town citizens were s...
...was one of Craft's more expensive clocks and was probably made for a prominent citizen of Shepherdstown. The extra features on this case are quite evi dent in the two pictures. However, I might add that even the most sim plified clock that I saw among the many I examined was st...
...' clock made by Jacob Craft now belongs to Robert Luther Jones of Locust Ridge Fa11n near Shepherdstown. Melvin Sprinkle of Kensington Md., has a clock which came to him through his family. ancy McGarry Holden of Bardane in Jefferson county inherited the raft clock owned by Miss ...
... . . . . . 22 Stone Buildings at Beverly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Shepherdstown Area Bellevue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Stone House at Fruit Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 S pr...
...865, Jefferson County Camp U. V.C., 19 11, pp. 24-27. ''Old Taverns in Jefferson County," Shepherdstown Register, April 22, 1927. Stone House At Rock Hall In 1750 eighteen year old George Washington used his first earnings as a surveyor to buy 550 acres on the South Branch of the...
.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4 Harpers Ferry-Bolivar ......................... 5 7 Shepherdstown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 8 Recent Additions to the Society's Archieves ........... 63 New Books ..................................... 63 ...
...Grove Park to the newer section of the Ridge Road about two miles from the town limits of Shepherdstown. The architectural characteristics and construction of Locust Ridge clearly indicate that it is at least two hundred years old. Seen from the east the exterior somewhat resembl...
...nty, Virginia. Linnie Schley Aspen Pool Aspen Pool Farm is about three miles southeast of Shepherdstown and just off Route 31, which leads from the Flowing Springs Road to Moler's Cross Roads. This section is noted for its beautiful views of the mountains to the east, rolling cou...
... to note a reference to a ''Mrs. Showman," who participated in a Lutheran Church event in Shepherdstown in 1872, on page 80 of On This Rock by Miss Gladys Hartzell. In the old Presbyterian part of the present Elmwood Cemetery is the grave of ''Malindah Showman, died November 17, ...
...ich are still in the possession of Triluminar Lodge (and also of Mt. Nebo Lodge No. 91 in Shepherdstown, to which as a courtesy a copy was sent by John F. Smith, Secretary Pro. Tern.) list the names of 125 members who were present and add the statement, ''and many other brethern....
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...at besides the church in Winchester and Morgan's Chapel there was a chapel at present-day Shepherdstown, one near the Old Chapel outside Millwood, and one near Front Royal, until recently it was impossible to date these buildings or to prove or disprove the existence of other cha...
...y had under con truction a church in Winchester and three chapel : the one at present-day Shepherdstown; the one called unningham near the present Old Chapel; and the third, called McKay' in Warren County near present-day Front Royal. The memo record payment in pounds and shillin...
...tration of the vestry in the northern part of the parish were the ones at Bunker Hill and Shepherdstown. The second vestry book indicates that two additional chapels had been constructed by 1764
...f Winchester in Virginia. Strasburg, 1925. Mu er, lifford . Two Hundred Years' History of Shepherdstown. hepherd to\vn, 1931. orri , J .... History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley. Chicago, 1890. Peterkin, Bi hop George W. A History and Record of the Protestant Episcopal Church in...
...ndance and a lively exchange of comment, questions and answers at this final meeting. The Shepherdstown Bicentennial souvenir was a reproduction of the old red-clay apple-butter crock, made during the late 18th and first half of the 19th centuries by the Weis family. The five hun...
... three new publications mentioned in Miss Hartzell' summary of Bicentennial activities in Shepherdstown, notice should be taken of a new book by Dorothy Davis,John George Jackson ( 1777-1823) (McLain Printing Company, 1976). This is the story of the gifted son of a frontier famil...
...ory and Chairman, Division of the Social Sciences, Shepherd College After having moved to Shepherdstown some years ago, the speaker became involved in research about several aspects of the history of Jefferson and Berkeley counties. As an historian, he had to think about the real...
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