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...pinion column called ''Hardly Worth Mention'' penned by local attorney Henry W. Morrow of Shepherdstown. In the April 21 issue, in a column entitled ''Senator Kennedy's Problem," Morrow framed the Ma sachusetts senator's challenge in We t Virginia to overcome the issue of his rel...
...1965-1994 $15 1995-current $10 Other publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 $10 Bern1een the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, West Virginia $49.95 DVD: Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: An Illustrated History of J...
... only nineteen whites engaged in the insurrection. The town approached on every side. The Shepherdstown company approached the town over the mountain, by the Bolivar road. The Frederick, (Va.) company by the Shenandoah river way; and the Jefferson company came down the Potomac ri...
... dead from the armory windows. Three rioters are lying dead under the bridge, shot by the Shepherdstown troops in the charge on the bridge. The a1111ory was taken possession of by the rioters about 9 o'clock on Sunday night last, and was so quietly done that the citizens knew not...
...ine also confir1r1s the statement in regard to her going to Harrisburg. The Excitement in Shepherdstown 24 On Monday whilst our Military were absent at Harper's Ferry, the greatest excitement prevailed. From every lip could be constantly heard, ''what's the news from Harper's Fer...
...1965-1994 $15 1995-current $10 Other publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 $10 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, West Virginia $49.95 DVD: Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: An Illustrated History of Je...
...ns guarding French prisoners at Frederick, and notes lack of ammunition. Head Quarters at Shepherdstown Jany: 9th 1800 Dear Sir, I shall not expatiate on our great loss. Not a man in America has more severely felt it than myself . . . . I have written to the Secretary of War to p...
...vent industrial espionage. Indeed, an incognito John Fitch was discovered snooping around Shepherdstown in April 1789. 18 But when the Patent Office opened, the inventors had to put their cards on the table; then the men all boasted about when they first got the idea of steam-pow...
...1965-1994 $15 1995-current $10 Other publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 $10 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, West Virginia $49.95 DVD: Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: An Illustrated History of Je...
...ond wave of emigrants began in 1845 and continued until the mid-1850s and was centered in Shepherdstown in the northern part of the county. It involved local ministers and had more free black emigrants, perhaps a result of increasing legal restriction on free blacks. Free and ema...
...family manumitted by the will of Christian Allemong. Ship ROANOKE (November 1845) 13 From Shepherdstown: Alexander ''Sandy'' Jenkins Mary Jen kins Otho Anderson Liza Anderson Samuel Lincoln Ann Rebecca Ransey Dorcas Ransey Ellen Ransey George Ransey 9 ''The Jupiter Emigration Reg...
50 The Magazine of the LIBERIA PACKET (February 1849) 1 8 From Shepherdstown: Benjamin Thompson -30 Clary Thompson -20 Milly Thompson -28 Milly s children: George Anderson -8 Mary Anderson - 8 John Henry Corns - 1 Cary Jorden -70-farmer Moses Jorden -35 Kitty Jorden -30 Henry Jor...
66 The Magazine of the 5) Edmund Jennings Lee to Reverend R.R. Gurley; 13 Aug 1831. 70 Shepherdstown August 13, 1831 Dear Sir, There are some persons of color living in this place who wish to remove to Liberia this fall if the Col. Soc. Shall find it convenient to transport them....
...has never blown on them, nor never will in America. I myself would not return for half of Shepherdstown, unless I could bring it away with me. My respects to - --and to you and all your families. Your well-beloved friend, Abraham Hays 5) Virginia Free Press, Charlestown, Virginia...
...Mr . B.C. Washington, $10; Mrs. T. B. Washington, do $5; Mr. R. Brown, do $5; Mr. E. Lee, Shepherdstown, Va. $5; Mr. Wickam, Phila. $5; Mrs. J.A. Washington, $21; Mrs. B.C. Washington $20; Miss J .B .Blackburn $25; Mrs. Loyd, Alexandria, $5; Mrs. E. Blackbum, $8; Mi s E. Blackbum...
...nia left the Union in 1861 there were two bridges across the Potomac River. The bridge at Shepherdstown carried traffic north into Maryland and provided access to the Lower Valley, especially the Valley Turnpike. The bridge over the Potomac at Harper's Ferry carried both the Balt...
...1965-1994 $15 1995-current $10 Other publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 $10 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, West Virginia $49.95 DVD: Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: An Illustrated History of Je...
...impact on Jefferson County especially after the battle with the fight at the Cement Mill (Shepherdstown) and the large number of wounded. The bicentennial is on my calendar. Last year we only had one sesquicentennial article and this year seventy-five percent of the articles are ...
...1965-1994 $15 1995-current $10 Other publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 $10 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, West Virginia $49.95 DVD: Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: An Illustrated History of Je...
...ce Gibbons. The widow Betsy continued to operate the family farm. She moved to a house in Shepherdstown later in life while keeping the farm in operation. Children: Ariadne Hall, John L., Mary. Ariadne Hall Gibbons married James H. Kerney. 4. Sarah <'Sally;' born circa 1775, marr...
...Craft clocks were displayed. The museum wa elling a book, . D. Kenamond, Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 17621962 ( l1arle To,vn: A Jeffer on County Hi torical ociety Publication> 1963), 49-51, \Vhich de cribed Mr. C1·aft, activitie and ho,-ved a photograph of one of hi clock \ 1h...
...expressed interest in the history of the clock. She suggested I contact Dr. Jim Price, of Shepherdstown, a local historian. I spoke to Dr. Price and he told me that Mr. Kevin Lane Dearinger, of New York City, was writing a book about American Shakespearean actors and that R.D. Ma...
...oblem exists with Harper's or Harpers Ferry, Shepherd's Town (Mecklenburg before 1798) or Shepherdstown, Middleway (old name Smithfield) and some others. It is Charles Town after 1911 because that change was enacted by the United States Post Office. The others are not as precisel...
38 The Magazine of the Shepherdstown, Elk Branch, and Bullskin, and so, in 1787, purchased a lot from Charles Washington for a church building, and called for cca minister to supply them service." 30 In 1851 a brick church was erected on the main street where its tall white colum...
...iving in this county, and all of the citizens of the County> except a corporal's squad at Shepherdstown and Harper's Ferry, are outlaws, under the test oath of West Virginia. It is necessary to take an oath that we have not acted, or assisted, or comforted the rebels since the co...
... Ferry usannah Buckles, henandoah Junction Barbara Gibson, Harpers Ferry Keith Alexander, Shepherdstown Jame L Glymph, Avon Bend Bet y Wells, Charles Town P. Dougla Perks, hepherdstown John D. Glymph, Avon Bend Donna orthou e, ummit Point James L Glymph, Avon Bend Director : illi...
...ity and the route between the Pack Horse Ford and Vestal's Gap that eventually became the Shepherdstown Pike. There was certainly more growth potential for a saddler's business there than in Lancaster County. As yet few Ge1·rnans were in the vicinity, but as their migration incre...
...umber of schools with over 100 students each, including the local ones in Harper's Ferry, Shepherdstown, and Martinsburg. 3 John C. Webster, Me,norialia of the Class of '64 in Dart1noutl1 College (Chicago: Shepard and Johnsto11, Printers), 1884 4 Mary E llen McClain, Storer Colle...
...the summer of 1908, Popodicon is one of the finest homes in the county. An article in the Shepherdstown Register from June 18, 1908 announced the near completion of the home with lots of flowery praise of both the house and its view, saying «it is probable that not more than one ...
... the area, who sold a large portion of his land to Thomas Shepherd land that later became Shepherdstown. It was from "Morgan's Spring'' on the Falling Spring property that the Beeline March left to join the Continental Army in 1775. The grounds are steeped in both Revolutionary a...
... of Morgan,s Grove Park, was built in 1834 for Henry Boteler, co owner of the successful Shepherdstown cement mill. In 1864, Fountain Rock was the home of his son, Alexander Boteler, a colonel in the Confederate Army and member of the Confederate Congress. Drawings of the homes ...
...chaeological Excavations at the Osbourn-Moore House, Jefferson County, West Virginia. '' (Shepherdstown, WV: Shepherd University Cultural R source Management Report #65, 2017), I 17-118.
...2 The Magazine of the in Jefferson and Berkeley Counties, at Harper>s Ferry, Martinsburg, Shepherdstown, <'have each about one hundred different pupils in day and evening schools;> and that these schools «are all making commendable progress:' He reported that the lack of a school...
...l be of great service to travellers and others'' Crossing the Potomac at Princess Street, Shepherdstown By P. Douglas Perks .................................................................................... 92 Summer Picnic .........................................................
...he past, a number of bridges and ferries have crossed the Po tomac at Princess Street in Shepherdstown. You can still see some of the remnants and I think you will find this history to be engaging. Once again, thanks to this year's authors and to David at Progressive Printing in...
...https:/llvww.nps.gov/ abpp!battles/tn003.htm (accessed 7 /27 /18). 35 Dandridge, Historic Shepherdstown, 261; "From William Darke;' November 9-10, 1791 ;, Papers of Washington, Presidential Series, 9: 158-168; Arthur St. Clair, Narrative of the Manner in Whi ch the Campaign Again...
... 1776 as ''excellent land, but very des titute of water:' Danske Dandridge in ''Historic Shepherdstown'' (1910) not ed that this part of the lower Shenandoah Valley had been prairie, cleared by the Native Americans so that they could drive prey out of the woods for capture. Buf...
...L BE OF GREAT SERVICE TO TRAVELLERS AND OTHERS'' CROSSING THE POTOMAC AT PRINCESS STREET, SHEPHERDSTOWN By P. Douglas Perks For decades, adventurers on foot or on horseback splashed across a river called Cohongoronto on their way either into or out of the Valley of the Shenandoah...
... t ~ • ... .,. • ' I • J Figure 1 I 762 -I 798 Map of Mecklenburgh. Courtesy the Historic Shepherdstown Commission. 12 Hening. LAWS OF VIRGINIA. NOVEMBER 1766 --7th GEORGE III. CHAP. XLIII. Page 263.
...yix lot laid out and numbered on the 1762 -1798 1nap are con i tent with the 1873 plat of Shepherdstown which was done by Berkele}' Count)' ur\'eyor John P. Kerfott. On February I 0, 1873, Kerfott ,,,a en1ployed by the Shepherd town Council ,cto run the lines and make a plat of t...
...n, Fletcher M. and Thomas F. and Nathalie W Hahn, Editors. Ferry Hill Plantation Journal. Shepherdstown, W. Va. 1975. Page viii and Epilogue. At the time of John Blackford's death in 1839, Ferry Hill Plantation had grown to approximately 700 acres. •
...the farms along the Potomac Ri,,er Road. Although both were river town , the economies of Shepherdstown and Harper' Ferr)' varied greatly. hepherdstown,s economy revolved around mill along Town Run and numerous craftsmen. At Harper, Ferry, guns, rail , and canal boat were preemin...
...ue diligence, the bridge stockholders appointed a comn1ittee <<to examine the pier of the Shepherdstown bridge, and to a ce1·tain the co t of rebuilding the bridge both with wood and with iro11." 34 A ign of the time , it ,va decided to replace the beautiful bridge n1ade of c,\To...
...ister provided a blow by blo,v account of ,vhat happe11ed: <'O11e of tl1e l1eaviest lo es Shepherdstown has had in n1any years can1e on ½ 1 ednesday [Marcl1 18, 1936] when the bridge of the Virginia and 1aryland Bridge Compa11)' across the Potomac river was entirely carried a\'ay...
...ting six cars on each trip, made countle trip back and forth from the Ferry Land' i11g in Shepherdstown to the Potomac shore at Bridgeport. For the mo t part, things went smoothly. On October 29, 1937, the Potomac flooded, and river lev els reached 26.8 feet, well below the Floo...
... . Pa~ ,;; ed Wheeling a11cl G,,,a1'e The route of Daniel Bedinger and Doctor Foster from Shepherdstown to Pittsburgh, by horse or carriage and stage to Pittsburgh where they went by flat boat down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans. Filled with the spirit of adventur...
...t would afford Daniel Bedinger the opportunity to send letters to his wife and friends in Shepherdstown. When Daniel Bedinger and Doctor Foster arrived in Maysville, Kentucky they heard the news of the battle led by Gen. William Henry Harrison against the followers of Shawnee Ind...
...ith very little wind. Snow-snow-snow. Shepherd Brown was a friend of Daniel Bedinger from Shepherdstown, Virginia. In the letter to Brown, Bedinger may have informed Brown, a young merchant in the New Orleans area, that he and Doctor Foster soon would be arriving in New Orleans. ...
54 The Magazine of the Pa rt 11 Return to Shepherdstown by the Federal Road and Great Valley Road Ls.ks Js~Swamp f 5; J Marsh ? NaUJrat tervees .,;fft-:, Me1aine and Gentt1ty rtdges Lake Pontchartrain mJa -• -------...... --,_..:.er.~ ---: -------._ .... !::i..~~ Lake Borgne FebY...
... The final two entries in Daniel Bedinger,s journal 24. Arrived at home [''Bedford'' near Shepherdstown] about 12 oClock. [End of Journal] The weary travelers arrived at ''Bedford'' on March 24 th . Daniel was greeted by his wife Sarah and met his infant son, Henry, seven weeks o...
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