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...ng this period, proprietors and citizens planned towns, laid them off, and conveyed lots. Shepherdstown, Charles Town, Smithfield, Martinsburg, Hedgesville, and Gerrardstown are examples. These and other communities developed to service the needs of overland trans portation or t...
...tion from the northeast to southwest axis to an east-west pattern. It plunged the town of Shepherdstown into a gradual decline, but it simultaneously heralded the town of Martinsburg into the modern age. Martinsburg would develop, because of the railroad's influence, into a town ...
... been published in this Magazine shows that there is a stone in the Lutheran Graveyard in Shepherdstown dated 1785. In the Ronemus-Engle graveyard, near Duffields, the grave of General Darke's son, who was killed in 1791, is marked by a well carved stone, as is tl1e grave of the ...
...he 1967 number, and contains pertinent information . Research in the bound volumes of the Shepherdstown REGISTER has brought to light a newspaper article dated May 26, 1927. H.L. Snyder, then the editor of this highly esteemed weekly, kept his readers informed of events in all of...
...y none of these would question the statement that the main spring of the effort has been Shepherdstown's venerable Professor A.D. Kenamond.''
...ell Davis and C. Manning Smith of l1arle Town; Miss Linnie chley and Capt. John Schley of Shepherdstown. lso working closely with the committee was Mrs. Robert Leonard of Harpers Ferry vice-president of the Society. Dr. John A. Wahington, president, composed the card which went t...
...se Briscoe of Piedmont near Charles Town; Mrs. C.N. Byron and Mrs. John Goulding, both of Shepherdstown. Each lady was presented with a corsage of spring flowers through the thought fulness of a member of the Board of Directors. C. Manning Smith then recognized the invited guest...
...was warmly applauded. Announcement was made of an invitation to hold the summer picnic in Shepherdstown and the invitation was accepted. Souvenirs for the occasion were book-marks printed with the pro gram and presented by C. Manning Smith. Mrs. Leonard thanked all those whose g...
...r forget, ''If it was raining soup, my bowl would be upside down!'' He had come here from Shepherdstown, and because I, too, had come from hepherdstown he more or less adopted'' me when I arrived. He had the faintest impediment of speech that only added to the color of everything...
...ling Spring Branch when it enters the Corporation, possessively is called ''Town Run'' by Shepherdstowner . In the town it flows through gardens and alleys, under streets and bridges, over dam and wheels. Besides Thomas Shepherd s Mill there were several more grist mills, three s...
...use of kiln-baked brick for elegant houses was well underway. The earliest brick house in Shepherdstown was built in the l 790's, according to Mr. Kenamond. How soon Charles Washington was able to procure brick for the wings of Happy Retreat, after his arrival in 1780, is unknown...
...'s Grove Park and the Harvest Fair in early autumn. Under the sponsorship of the Historic Shepherdstown Commission there are many projects and programs to benefit the town which can be continued. Donald Patterson Olde Berkeley Statewide Preservation Conf ere nee On eptember 30 Oc...
... the humidity was high, 90 members and guests gathered at the old Thomas Shepherd Mill in Shepherdstown on July 16, at 5 :00 p.m. for the summer picnic. Mr. and Mrs. Ira Glackens, who bought the Mill property and adjoining residence in 1973, were our gracious hosts. The restored ...
Jeffer on County Historical Society THE 1870 FLOOD From the Shepherdstown Register Great Loss of Life Numbers Homeless and Destitute October 8, 1870 Millions of Property Destroyed 13 The Spirit of Jefferson of Tuesday says During the past week the valley and portions of Eastern V...
...aid her mortal remains beside her loved ones gone before in the Old Episcopal Cemetery at Shepherdstown, near the bright waters of the historic Potomac, along whose banks she played in childhood and whose lute-voiced waves sing a ceaseless requiem in her memory. (From scrapbook o...
... helped to write a Church histor y. After afew _vear he built hi home everal miles out of Shepherdstown near (\rabble, and here he great/ enjoyed gardening. In 1971 he became a member of this Society and in 1975 was elected to the Board of Directors and began serving on the Publi...
...monston Venning, M.D. and Charles Town's First Hospital .............................. 47 Shepherdstown Is Active in Preservation ...................... 56 Charles Town Historic Landmarks Commission ................ 60 Pride in Action .......................................... 64...
... of Morgan. But it included only one town and only two chapels of the Established Church: Shepherdstown, which had been incorporated as ''Mecklenburg'' in 1762 (named for Charlotte of Mecklenburg, the bride in the previous year of the young, newly crowned (1760) and still-popula...
...irginia Review, published a number of articles about St. George's Chapel in the papers of Shepherdstown, Martinsburg, and Charles Town in the l 930's. There was a great deal of local interest in the old ruins at the period. The DAR had acquired a half interest in the site, the ma...
...-95). On a Saturday in September of 1789 he preached to about 700 people "in a woods near Shepherdstown," and the next day to 1,000 or 1,500. (Gardiner). Incidentally, all the evidence I can find-the popularity of Methodism, the presence of Mr. Veasey, the comments of Mrs. Eleano...
...: ''Mr. William Morgan's grandfather was a prominent official of (the Episcopal) faith-in Shepherdstown; and when the old church at that place needed repairs he had it remodeled at his own expense and buried his father under the chancel-it is well known that the gentleman buried ...
...had been forming for years. He designed and built a house in the country a few miles from Shepherdstown, filled it with hi book opera recordings and paintings and used it as a refuge from the trenuous and time-consuming job as English teacher. Here he wrote letters poetry, and ar...
...will take a minimum of two years and will pre erve much of historic value. Terri Farrior, Shepherdstown
...n ...................... 30 Pride In Action .......................................... 33 Shepherdstown Landmarks Commission ..................... 35 Sum mer Picnic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ........ 3 7 New Publication .....................
... to the relative cheapness of limestone. The first known brickyard appeared about 1790 in Shepherdstown. 3 Richard Stephenson had five sons-Richard, John, Hugh, James and Marquis. The most prominent of these was Hugh, who after commanding a company of riflemen in the French and I...
... Kalorama, are mentioned later in the present article. 3 Kenamond, A.D., Prominent Men of Shepherdstown During Its First 200 Years, page 53, Jefferson County Historical Society, 1963. 4 Bushong, Millard K., Historic Jefferson County. Boyce, Virginia, 1972. 5 Magazine of the Jeffe...
J Shepherdstown Historic Landmarks Commission ntler Hotel Restoration Underway 35 )1a e l of the Entler Hotel re toration began officially on September 2 hen the tamper on truction Company started work on three r m Jocated on the Princes treet ide of the building. Two of the 1·00...
...ord of firewood. The Weis' clay came mostly from a cliff above the Potomac River, west of Shepherdstown. 2 The red clay was brought to the pottery by horsecart. It was then ground much the way that flour was ground at a mill-between two large, round, flat stones. The top stone wa...
...on the lip where it was used as a knife sharpener in the kitchen of Miss Gladys Hartzell, Shepherdstown. As a storage jar, cheesecloth dipped in wax would be tied with a string under the thick enunciated lip. With the reinterest in pottery in this country in the 1950s, we did not...
Historic Shepherdstown Commission Restoration Project 33 Pha e ne of the ntler Hotel re toration project, begun in eptember 19 0 i all but complete. hile olunteer are continuing to put the fini hing touche on the Prince treet ide of the building two large meeting room" modern bat...
...t Falling Waters Berkeley County. When a sizeable Union contingent crossed the Potomac at Shepherdstown toward the Confederate front at Smithfield (M iddleway), Lee rode to the area to examine the situation. 7 Perhaps his personal grief and current location reminded him of the Wa...
.................... 50 Summer Picnic .......................................... 52 Historic Shepherdstown Commission, by Mr. Ben Miller ..... 54 Thornton T. Perry, II, Room, 0 Id Charles Town Library, Inc. . ........................ 58 Editorial Note ..................................
unt Hi torical • oc1et 55 Historic Shepherdstown Commission The c ntribution of hi torical ocietie to a community are often u btle, and are rarel dramatic or headline-grabbing. Members of hi t ri al ocietie ma ometime que tion whether their effort and ener ie are being properly e...
...usser book and re erving the reception room at the Entler Hotel please write the Historic Shepherdstown ommi ion P.O. Box 1786, hepherdstown We t Virginia 25443. Ben Miller, Pre ident Hi toric hepherd town Commi • 10n
... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 41 Historic Shepherdstown Commission, by Ben Miller ........... 42 Society Speakers at Spring and Fall Meetings ................. 44 ''No man is fit to be entrusted with the control of the present who i...
...any Holl's Pump Company Charles Town Market House Company Charles Town Smithfield Company Shepherdstown Company Leetown Company Halltown Company North Bolivar Company (No designations were found for Company Numbers 2 and 7 in the local papers) Men serving in the 55th Regiment and...
...e last Saturday of July, 1860, the Second Regiment of Virginia Volunteers paraded through Shepherdstown under the command of Colonel James W. Allen. 26 Little did the men realize that 25 Virginia Free Press, 22 March 1860, p. 2, col. I. 26 Virginia Free Press, l December 1859, p....
...ur Jefferson County municipalities obtained new charters under the laws of West Virginia: Shepherdstown on 11 February 1867. 12 ''Charles Town'' on 24 February 1872, 13 Harpers Ferry on 16 April 1872, 14 and Bolivar on 27 March 1877. 15 The Chartering of Ranson on 18 October 1910...
...i tory in each quarterly issue of the Good News Paper the community paper pon ored by the Shepherdstown Mini terial o iation. n attempt to revive the oral history project for the town i a et un ucce ful. A ucce f ul oral history project needs willing intervie er interviewee and a...
... quantity discounts are allowed. Mr. Wilson also has available copies of Prominent Men of Shepherdstown for $7 .50 each, mailed, Old Norborne Parish (1744-1816) for $5.00 each, mailed, The Washington Homes of Jefferson County for $2.00 each, mailed, and Michael D. Thompson, Calen...
...ick.le. 7 The scaffold was located on an open lot somewhere between the Harpers Ferry and Shepherdstown roads (Washington and Liberty Streets of today) "on the edge of town." The exact site is unknown but it is likely to have been somewhere between Seminary Street and the present...
...rtn animals, around the larger ones the girls would make a careful and distant detour. In Shepherdstown there was the excitement of the rows of horse-drawn covered vans drawn up on Main (then few said ''Ger1nan'') Street. So long as anyone was around the drivers would loudly urge...
...onstruction must have started earlier in 10 Deed Book S, p. 516, Jefferson County, W.Va.; Shepherdstown Register, August 11, 1921 ~ Bakerton Safety News, January 1939. 11 Bakerton Safety News, January 1939.
...erence to the Baker quarry and vicinity a Bakerton i found in an article appearing in the Shepherdstown R~-...... i 1er on 'o ember 28 1890. B thi time, the Baker had opened up a large lime tone quarry here and con tructed four patent kiln for the burning of lime. Each week 11,00...
...y 1939. 16 Thomas, ''Baker Family History"; Advertisements for local stores appear in the Shepherdstown Register, January and February, 1896. 17 Notes of W.J.B. Houser; Diary of John Welsh, 1899 November 1902, 1908, November 1914, and January 1915; Bakerton Safety News, January 1...
...July 8, 1985). 22 Board of Education Minutes, Harpers Ferry District, October 12 1917. 23 Shepherdstown Register, August 2, 1917 and August 26, 1920. 24 Interview with James William Flanagan, April 14, 1985. 25 Standard Lime and Cement Company, Accident Round Table, October 31, 1...
40 The Magazine of the I ? I I Interior Front Hall, Social Science Building (Shepherdstown Graded School), Shepherd College, 1974.
...demic Building B," to occupy the site of the Social Science Building. 21 In 1974, the old Shepherdstown Graded School was razed; in the following months, construction of Stutzman Slonaker Hall occurred on the site. The limestone rocks which had been used for the county jail and ...
...Halltown Chapel, by Betty Davis ......................................... 56 The Historic Shepherdstown Commission, by Ben Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 58 Trivia .................................................. 61 Su...
... quantity discounts are allowed. Mr. Wilson also has available copies of Prominent Men of Shepherdstown for $10.00 each, mailed, Old Norborne Parish (1744-1816) for $5.00 each, mailed, The Washington Homes of Jefferson County for $2.00 each, mailed, and Michael D. Thompson, Calen...
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