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36 Magazine of the Miss K. M. Childs, Charles Town Po1·trait in oil, of M.AtRY 'l'RIBY AILTiEN, later Mrs. John A. Child..,. pain•ted in Philadelphia aoout 1840. Miniature in wax, of JOHN ~TZ, done in Amsterdam, Holland, in 1816. Mrs. W. E. Craighill, Charles Town Portrait, in pe...
16 Magazine of the CHARLES TOWN HORSE RACING IN EARLY DAYS Current followers of horse racing at Charles Town may not be aware of the fact that the sport has been in the blood for many years and that there was a Charles Town Jockey Club as early as 1808. The Farn1er's Repository o...
...N C0 1 U 1 NTY Aler, F. Vernoh. !History of Martinsiburg and Berkeley County. 1888. Hagerstown Mail. 4 1 52 pages. Has chaipter on First Settlements of Valley. Contains story of Wild Goose Far,111 and H,enry Shepherd Valuable chied'Jy for its Historical 1S 1ketches of Early Inhab...
...rv HISTORICAL SOCIETY OrganiU&CI May 21, 1927 OFFICERS President-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice-President--Wright Denny, Oharles Town, W. Va. Recording Secretary-...Jlienry T. McDonald, Harpens Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary---Ella May 'I'urner, Shepherdstown, ...
...rv HISTORICAL SOCIETY OrganiU&CI May 21, 1927 OFFICERS President-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice-President--Wright Denny, Oharles Town, W. Va. Recording Secretary-...Jlienry T. McDonald, Harpens Ferry, W. Va. Corresponding Secretary---Ella May 'I'urner, Shepherdstown, ...
74 The Magazine of the ''Charles Town's Initiative'' The Building of Old Charles Town Library and Civic Center, 1965 Susan M. Collins Recently, I had the privilege of examining an old scrapbook, compiled over the period 1963 to 1965. This book, with it collection of yellowing new...
...ought lot number 18 on 07 August 1788 for £8 5. 58 Tiffin purchased a number of lots from Charles Washington. It is unknown whether Tiffin or others developed the additional lots. He moved to the Ohio territory before the tax collection of 1798. Conclusion The earliest commercial...
...on County Historical ociety Organized May 21, 192 7 Head·quarters-County Offices Building Charles Towr1, West Virginia OOFIOEJRS Presiden,tr---A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Vice-President,-Wright Denny,..JCharles Towr1, W. Va. Recording Secretary-Henry T. MJcDonald, Harpe...
...ON COUNTY HISTORJCAJI. SOCIETY r, anized May 21, 1927 Headquarters-County Office Building Charles Town, West Virginia ,,.. -....... ¥ -- - • -...,,__, OFFICERs President,......,A .. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va~ Vice-President-Wright Denny, Charles Town, W. Va. Record ng Sec...
...n the trouble to inspect them or even look at them know them to be.8 Although pro-Cl1arle Town sentiment, in the county seat controversy seems to have impaired this author's objectivity in much the same way northern prejudice obscured Mr. Townsend's reporting, tl1ere seems to be ...
...ety JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Organized Ma 21, 1927 Po t Of'fice Box 485 Charle Town We t Virginia 25414 OFFICERS Pre iclent-Dr. John E. Steale , Ill hepherd town Vil·e-Pre ident- Mr. Roger J. Perry, Charle Town Trea .. ')urer- J. Blackwell Davi , Jr., Charle Town Recor...
...nt Histo1·ical Soci ety J 0 co TY HI TORICAL SOCIETY H adquarters-County Offices Building Charles Tow11, West, Virginia OFFICERS P1· sid 11t-Thornton T. Per1·y, J1·., Charlestown W. Va. ice-P1·e ident-A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown, W. Va. Recordi11g Se~1·etar 1-Hen1·y T. McDonald...
...but was vacated December 31, 1872, by the revised Constitution. 4. Joseph A. Chapline, of Charles Town, (Radical Candidate), was appointed October 1868 to replace Ephraim B. Hall, after Hall was elected but declined to qualify or serve. Chapline died in office. 5. Thayer Melvin, ...
130 The Magazine of the 8. RICH WOODS FARM Location: Take Rt. 51 from Charles Town to Earl Road; tum left on Earl Road and go 1.5 Miles. Originally part of Robert Worthington's ( of Piedmont) second royal grant in 1757, it has been difficult to determine when the one-story farmho...
...hed to call the new county ''Richland.'' The petition described the future county seat of Charles Town as ''a handsome and flourishing town, situate at the crossing of the principal roads of the Valley, nearly in the center of the lower division." The petition further offered tha...
64 The Magazine of the purpose. 1 The next was Happy Retreat, home of the town's founder, Charles Washington, and present home of Mr. and Mrs. William Gavin. The first two wings of this house were built about 1780. The date 1768 was found on an outbuilding, but this date was neve...
...y; D.C. Dolly, clerk and James A. Smith, collector and treasurer. The water supply of the town is furnished by a corporation under the name of the Charles Town Water Company. The water flows from a spring into a reservoir, is pumped into a standpipe and thence is piped throughout...
...ho have renovated it carefully and made it their home. Pride In Action Pride In Action in Charles Town has continued its support and encouragement of town improvements and beautification in 1979. Sixty-four more trees, most of which were Bradford pears, were planted in the downto...
34 The Magazine of the Pride in Action Members of Pride in Action, a Charles Town City Countil appointed committee, worked with members of the city council on the All-West Virginia City Award. Charles Town won the award for the second ) consecutive year. The book of evidence was ...
... Kenn~ and Gera,rd Pahner, of Jefferson County, owned by her cousin, Miss Ella Starry, of Charles Town. Two portraits, oil on canV'j),6, 24'' by 30'', of CONRAD S'11.A:RiRY &Ilti his wile, CAROLINE - ...__....,y STARRY, owned by their niece, Miss Elia starry. Portrait, oil on can...
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...
26 Magazine of the The Post Office Department was started September 26, 1789. The Charlestown office was opened ten years later. In the beginning the Post Office Departnient in herited from the Colonial set-up, 75 post offices and 1,075 miles of post roads. The first annual reve...
...Hl:STORICAL SOCIETY Organized May 21, 1947 Headquarters County Of fices Building CJ1arles Town, West Virginia OFFICERS Presid r1t---A. D. Kenarnond, 1Shepherdstown, W. V,a. ice Presidetlt-Frank W. Buckles, Charles Town, W. Va. 3 R co1~di11g 1Secr,etar) 1-Thornton T. Perry, Jr., C...
...Harrison County, where he remained about one year. About the year 1846, he removed ... to Charlestown, Jefferson County .... '' 10 On the 29th of January 1851, he married Elizabeth Bibb Ranson (1829-1909), a daughter of James Lackland Ranson (1791-1868) of the family who owned th...
JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Organized Ma 21 1927 P t Office Box 485 harle Town We t Virginia 25414 OFFICERS Pr ~ ident,-r. John . teale III hepherd town J/ice-Pre ident-Dr. John . Wa hington Charle Town Trea urer-J. Black ell Davi Jr. Charle Town Recording ecretar;- Mrs. ...
...HOOF -Grammar, Arithmetic, Geography, History, Composition HOWELL. DA YID 14 -1 Sep 1852 -Town -David HOWELL -Latin, Math HOWELL, J.M. 11 -1 Sep 1852 -Town -David HOWELL -English HUNTER, ANDREW 14 -1 Sep 1852 -Town -Andrew HUNTER -Latin, Greek, French, Math HURST. JOHN No age - 1...
...D. 1Gi'bson. Quotes from Lieut. Orme's Journal coI11Cerning Braddock's March. In Shepherdstown and Shepherd College li braries. Lucas, Daniel B. The lw=mseian Society, 1"7t88-'1'906. Report made 1908. 8 pages. ·In Shepherd College library. Lucas, Daniel B. The Inventor of the st...
...r ial Governor of Florida. In 1797, a boy of twelve, he t·eft Westmoreland for Ch1a,rles Town, going by water to Alexandria, where th·e stor.y begins .. '"We staid but one n~ght in Alexandria, then took a hack for Charles To\vn. Got that night to Hillsboro at the foot of the Blu...
... the heights over back here, and they were glad to get out of this. '' 6 The clerk of the Charles Town court, though so young a man now, was ''out'' with Fitz Lee when only a boy of 17, in the last two years of the war, and he pointed out to me one of Mosby's men on the other sid...
... 1750 it has not been documented. However, Robert Worthington's mill can be verified near Charlestown on Evitt's Run just outside the future limits of Charlestown. In a property transaction recorded in a Jefferson County deed book between Charles Washington and Robert Worthington...
...en, which went to Berryville, drove in the pickets there of the enemy, and found that the town was occupied by White's battalion of between 200 and 300 men, that his scouts in other directions could learn of no force of the [ 42] enemy in the vicinity. I was deceived by all these...
...ty 3 JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Orga11ized May 21 1927 Post Office Box 4 5 harle Town We t Virginia 254 I 4 OFFICERS P1·eside11t-Dr. John . Wa hington l1arles Town ice-Pre ide,1t-William H. Wil on Charles Town Trea lirer-Talbot W. J e11kins Cl1arle Town Rec·cJ1·di11g ecr...
...ST 1 0RICAL SOCIETY Organized May 2 1, 192 7 OFFJCERS President--A. D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown. Vice·President-JWright Denny, Charles Town. Recording Secretary~Henry T. MCDonald, Harpers Ferry. Corre6J)Onding Secretary-Ella May Turner, She-phet·dsiown. Treasurer-M.ary T. Howell, ...
...L ~ CAS~ Member of Congress 1839-1841 and 1843-1845. Born at ''Cold Spring' near Shepherdstown in 1800. En ered law office of Henry Berry of Shepherdstow11. Lat~ r a ended aw school of Judge Henry St. George Tucker, of ''Woodbu1 .. y' near Leetown. Moved to Charles Town for pract...
...e following diary is in the form of two little notebooks owned by Miss Lucy J. Ambler, of Charles Town, and was written by her mother at the age of twelve. Written by a child, it gives an opportunity to look with the eyes of a little girl into the every day life of a family in Ch...
12 The Magazine of the FAMOUS CONFEDERATE BA LE F The Charles Town Museum is the proud custodian of this flag, once used by Colonel Roger Preston Chew who commanded the Horse Artillery of the Ar111y of Northern Virginia. Measuring five feet by six feet, eight inches, it was prese...
...The REGISTER reported that on August 6, 1927, ''At a largely attended meeting in Shepherdstown last Saturday afternoon, the Jefferson County Historical Society was launched under the most favorable circumstances." The officers elected were: President, A.D. Kenamond, Shepherdstown...
90 The Magazine of the Page-Jackson High School Charles Town, WV James L. Taylor The first chool for Black students in Charles Town was established in 1865 by the Freedman' Bureau and was taught by women of the Freewill Baptist Home Mi sion Society from the north. That school was...
...ice Box 4 5 harle To n, We t irginia 25414 OFFICERS P,,.e icle,11-r. John . teale hepherd town J 1ice-P,·e 'itle,11-Dr. John . Wa hington, Charle Town T,·ea41i,1rer·-J. Blackwell Davi Jr. Charle Town R£}£•orcli11g ec·retar.i -Mr . Jo eph R. Grove , Charles Town t>r1·e JJot1cling ...
...ached in Willis Church in W. Hanover for a few Inonths. While there, he was called to the Charles Town Presbyterian Church, where he was installed as its pastor on December 91 1866. Here he speht the balance of his life as pastor of this church for forty-five years. Shortly after...
...er Aisqui h Building \'here Moffatt's Pharmacy now located. (Aisqulth 1·~ign d to join he Charles Town Company of 49rs and left for alif orni in search of gold.) 5. Jer miah Harris. Location unknown. He was a successful farmer . . John P. BTO\'Il. Middle first block w. Washingt.-...
...rials into soldiers. One morning we were ordered out of our quarters, marched to Shepherdstown, through a thunderstorm, back to Kearneysville, where we took the train/or the ferry thoroughly drenched and disgruntled. Soon after this in the month of May, our regiment was sent up i...
...on displays partisan sentiment born of the battle for the county seat then raging between Charles Town and Shepherdstown. In February 1865 the county seat of Jefferson County, West Virginia was moved to Shepherdstown. This was at frrst a war measure to provide the protection of F...
Jeffer on ount Hi torical • oc1et 65 the town would eliminate many traffic problems and be a safety measure. Handsome old tree were in danger of being cut down. With the cooperation of the Council steps were taken to ensure that trees would be cut only when deterioration made it ...
.... HAREWOOD: See 36th Tour, 1991 7. TATE-FAIRFAX-MUSE HOUSE Location: 201 East Washington, Charles Town. Initially, this was a town house, used for the ''winter season'' when families left their large estates and moved into town to conduct business and to entertain. Three of the p...
...y was sent by Lt. Col. Cloudslay. I then went to the windows looking to the north side of town, and saw the rebels wheeling their artillery into position near the track of the Winchester Rail Road. Just at that time a second flag of truce came in, making some request, I believe, ...
...s.' Ferr).-. Tradition say·s that on their ,vay to Harewood tl1cy sto111-1ed overnight in Charles Town at the t1a.vern, where the Citize11s Fire Company now owns, a11d their servants stayed a1cross tl1e street \vhere Mrs. Ro·derick's property now stands. On the road to Harewood, ...
...eside11t.-A. D. K enamond, Shepherdsto~·n, W. Va. Vice-President.-Wr1g ht Denny, Cha1·les Town, W. Va. Recording Secreta1·}'-Hen1·y T. McD011ald, Ha1·pers Fe1·ry, W. Va. Correspondir1g Secretary-Ella May Tu1·11e1·, She1)he1·dstown, W. Va. Treasu1·e1·-Jes.c;ie T1·otter, Shephe1·d'...
...ociety 3 JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Orgar1i?ed May 21, 1927 Post Of.fice Box 485 Charles Towr1 West Virginia 254 I 4 OFFICERS Preside11 t-Dr. J 01111 A. Wasl1i11gto11, Cl1arles Town Vice-P1·eside11t-Willian1 H. Wilson, Charles Town. Trea'}L1re1·-Talbot W. Jer1k1ns Cl1arl...
... Virginia's Shenandoah Valley Counties: A Preliminary Sketch ..... 12 The Wilson House in Charles Town .................. 20 The Building of The New County Jail In 1872-73 ....... 23 The Graves of Charles and Mildred Washington ......... 24 Test Excavation of the Charles and Mild...
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