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...th to bear, too much to feel aggrieved because no kindly hand is extended to them. 6 From Charleston I went to Sharpsburg, in Maryland, and crossed the Potomac at Sheppardstown [sic] in order to enter the Valley from that point. In Sheppardstown an election had taken place two da...
48 The Magazine of the building on the corner of Charles and Washington Streets in Charles Town that he used as his residence and his business. The building i still standing and is known as the Shugart Building. John Blessing was a baker and confectioner by occupation. During Joh...
...dred block of West Washington Street. Today if you stroll along the sidewalks of historic Charles Town, just after you pass the United States Post Office look up at the top of the fa~ade of the building which is home to Collins' Barber Shop, Jumpin' Java, and Amaya International....
94 The Magazine of the have been active much earlier in town on leased land since he is identified in the 1787 tax lists. He owned one cow . 36 In 1798 his property was assessed at $315 .00. Lot number 43 Another blacksmith in Charlestown was Jacob Miller. On 02 July 1796 he purc...
...t House. The first election of officers was set to be held <<at the house now occupied by Charles Hungerford'' on December 18, 1776. Joseph Wil son and his next-door neighbor Zadock Magruder were two of the three judges of the first elections in the newly erected county, and Wil...
...oes to Alexandria by the residence of Doctor SI.aughter, Doctor Rust and others, entering town in the neighborhood of Colross. After it crosses the Leesburg pike, howeve r, it seems best known as the old Mush-Pot r oad.'' friend in Leesl1urg·, an old man, who has ·been over the r...
...rince William and Berkeley counties. He then resigned to become pastor of the churches at Charles Town and Hopewell. When Mr. Hill resi,gned in 1800 he intended to take up missionary work west of the ·Ohio river, but he abandoned this plan to ac cept a call to the Winchester •ch...
...Williams (1751-1829). Lieut., Col. Moses Rawling's Md. Rgt. Buried in Edge Hill Cemetery, Charles Town. Davenport, John. b. Dec. 14, 1753. d. 1807. m. Ellen Harris. Corporal in Jouett's Co., 7th Va. Regt. Also served in Samuel Cabell's Co., 6th_ Va. Battalion of Continental Troop...
...n Count Histo1 .. ical Society 5 Edito1 .. Zittle \Vas full of enthusiasm fo1 .. his home town. H anted a cou1't house which the town later"' got for a sho1 .. t while. How is this fo1 .. p1--olllotional literatu1 .. e,-un doubtcdly from the pen of Editor .. Zittle because it ap...
...PO TER & POST OFFICES IN I CH RLE TOW W. VA. B. T. T. Perry Jr. The fi1--s Postmaste1· of Charles Town was Mathew F1·ame, appointed Janua1"y 30, 1799. (Early records of Mathe ........ y Frame also spell his name ''Fraume'' and Mathew i l wo' • s''.) He had la1·ge land holdings in...
... Denny School.) It was in September of 1893 that Wright Denny be ca!lle principal of the Charles Town Graded School and began that long and useful career which was to mean so much to the town and to the cornrnunity. It was not Mr. Denny's first experience as a teacher in Charles...
...he most successful being the one conducted by Miss Judith Sublett. There also existed the Charles Town Male Academy, which had been estab lished before 1800, and the Stephenson Seminary of a later date, and these two schools provided education for those whose parents were willin...
38 Magazine of the the professors of Education from the University at Morg antown or the several State Normal Schools, but also the :more prominent of the principals of the schools of the State. Many topics were presented for discussion, and Mr. Denny always took part in the deb...
... two miles east of Middle way and lying· on the south side of the Smithfield Cha1 .. les Town and Harpers Fer1'y Turnpike. Prior to 1840 it had been held in combination with a larger tract on the no1 .. th side of the pike by James Shirley. The com bined t1,act of 538 acres had...
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...ress. Concord, N. H. 1924. Howe, Henry. Historical Collections of Virginia. Babcock & Co. Charleston, S. C. 1845. Lewis, Virgil A. Second Biennial Report of the State Historian and Archivist. Charleston, W. Va. 1908. Also the Third Biennial Report, 1910. Musser, C. S. Two Hundred...
...·s. John Goulding. Linnie Schley 0 Fo1· n101 .. e han twenty yea1--s the1--e we1--e three towns 11a111ed Cl1a1 .. les Town in p1·esent West Virginia. ne as i11 he Eastei·n Panhandle in what was then B l'k l y County; the second was in the No1--thern Pan l1andle, he county seat o...
... i a in Company G, 2nd Vi1 .. ginia Infantry, on May 11 1861. G 01 .. ge H. lagg· was the Charles Town postmaster 1·on1 1886 o 1890 and again f1--om 1894 to 1896, having a J)a1·t i11 the experimental int1 .. oduction of Rural Free D liv l' of mail in 1896. He ma1·ried Elizabeth C...
...the Potomack River, rendering each division of a compact and convenient form, and placing Charles Town, a handsome and flourishing town, situate at the crossing of the principle roads of the Valley, nearly in the center of the lower division-Your Petitioners therefore pray that a...
...st owner of Mount Vernon, and they had six children. Tl1ey lived at Blakeley and later in Charles Town, where he was three times elected to the West Virginia House of Representatives. He founded the Charles Town Water Company, which gave the town its water system and was active i...
...ade during a visit here in 1811 that the church ''is going to ruin'', indicating that the Charles Town congregation was perhaps holding services somewhere in town at that time. This was quoted in an article by Ella May Turner in Volume XIV, page 26. Dr. Barnhart is engaged in mak...
... of helping to maintain the house became prohibitive. In 1969 the books were moved to the Charles Town Library and placed in a locked case where they are available to persons wishing to use them. The relics were placed on loan, in the Charles Town Museum. In 1970, W.H. Wilson was...
...y; that certain properties should be nominated for the National Register; that the entire town of Shepherdstown should be placed on the National Register as a district, and that efforts should be made to insure the early passage of State enabling legislation to permit Historic Di...
...4, was burned in 1864 by order of General David Hunter. Preservation Groups Are Active I. Charles Town Historic Landmarks Commission The Charle Town Historic Landmarks Commission was established by the ity Council of harles Town on January 19, 1976, under the provi ions of West V...
...rch buildings and graveyards. The Norborne Church emerged as the Episcopal Church for the Charles Town area. It was its distance from this fast growing town which dealt the final blow which came in 1816 with the completion of the first Zion Church. The old church's very name was ...
...r. Gallaher, had five of his sons enrolled in the ranks of the two volunteer companies in Charles Town-the Jefferson Guards and its junior partner, the Jefferson Cadets. 20 Organized by Lawson Botts in May, 1858, the Jefferson Cadets was a volunteer company composed of boys betwe...
...to this sport than is common in most communities (perhaps because we have a Grandstaff of town officers) for usually the authorities get ''Hooff-y'' if one tries even to Ronemous, and would Landis in jail Wright Quick. Our inhabitants (who are of several Hughes being White, Green...
...e: Chaplain Gray, will you state to the court what you know with regard to the capture of Charlestown, Va., on the 18th of Oct. last, and the conduct of Col. Simpson on that occasion? A.: At 7 o'clock A.M. my servant came into my room, and called me to breakfast. I arose and was ...
... story of the court house, whence we fired upon the gunners of the rebel battery north of town. While this fire was being kept up, one of the men said that the regiment had gone. I and my men were in an anteroom, and had not received the order. The rest of the force that was in t...
...rtinsburg. they camped around Harpers Ferry and almost every day scouting parties came to Charlestown. Our boys were always somewhere near, however, keeping their eyes on them, so there were frequent hot clashes. The Yankees moved very cautiously for they knew it was Baylor's boy...
...ace of John Brown' raid, trial, and execution in 1859. A mis ionary teacher reported from Charles Town in 1865, ''[t]he spirit that hung John Brown ·111· '' 1 7 t1 1 ves .... The citizen of Jefferson County, con idering them elves a part of the Old South and the Old Dominion, upp...
...e Magazine of the ''before the ummer day set in. " 50 N everthele , the Episcopal rector, Charles Andrew , a colonizationist and later a sece sioni t, extended timely a istance in encouraging Negro families to educate their children. 51 At Harper's Ferry, there were co ntinual pe...
...111ed with Minnie rifles and posted in the rifle armory, it is said, were expelled by the Charlestown Guards. 9 They all ran for the river, and one who was unable to swim, was drowned. The other four swam out to the rocks in the middle of the Shenandoah River and fired upon the c...
...Darke's Excrs (see above under John Cooke). 78 75 Cato Moore was an officer in a Shepherdstown unit during the Revolution. From Dandridge, "Historic Shepherdstown" (1910) (reprinting an 1850 Charles Town newspaper article): Lieut. Cato Moore was born on the Eastern Shore of Maryl...
...B. Davenport about tivo n1iles from our place on the n1ithfield Turnpike and a n1ile from Charles Town, where my mother and the children a11d the laves stopped for the night and the balance went to lzarles Town 011e mile east. \ 1 e fayed l1t Altona, 1'v1r. Daverzport's home that...
34 The Magazine of the Religious Beginnings In Charles Town by Drath C. Gibson In the quiet, tree-shaded town the church bells ring on Sunday morning, inviting one and all to worship-not in the Established Church of the state, but with any of the denominations housed in the vario...
98 The Magazine of the $5,000 would be purchased by citizens of Shepherdstown. 19 In July 1849, company directors hired Abraham Bowers to construct the bridge and gave him one year to complete the project. The first phase of the project was to construct a railway across the river...
...his family are also buried here. Peter Haines, the last Revolutionary soldier who died in Charles Town, is buried in the old Presbyterian graveyard; no one knows just where. There are over sixty legible stones in this old graveyard, names of those who were active in the affairs o...
...uren. So widely did the waters of the springs become advertised that mail stilt arrive in Charles Town, addressed to some Shannondale official and containing invitation to spa meetings in Germany, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia, and other countries of Europe. In 1859 the fine hotel...
...ra·I years secr.etarry of th,e Jefferson County Historical Society.) There is possibly no town in West Vrginia tha1: has more of in·terest attachin•g ·to its local hist,ory than Shepherdstown. Easily the o·ld· est town in the Staie-it was settled afbout 1732, maybe as early as 17...
...on bo h flanks simultaneously. The Union forces gave way, but fighting ensued through the town and for some three miles down the Smithfield-Charles Town road. At this junc ure General Rickett's division of t.he 6th Corps came to Merrit said. Here the Confederates gave up the atta...
...continued his education until prepared to practice law. Taking up resi dence in Shepherdstown he soon rose to distinction in his profession. His reputation as a trial lawyer resulted in his being chosen a member of the counsel to def end Aaron Burr in the famous trial for conspi...
...rs., 21 das. Nichols, William. b. Aug. 22, 1791. d. Dec. 31, 1871. Nourse, Susan, wife of Charles Nourse. d. Oct. 10, 1835, in her 34th year. Onderdonk, Daniel B. d. May 16, 1869, in his 71st year. Orndorff, Jacob. d. May 18, 1852, aged 54 yrs., 3 :mos. Orndorff, John S., son of ...
Jeffcr on ounty Historical Society 13 um o omes harles Town with its beautiful old houses, shady streets and historic a . ocia tions i a delight to visit. and to study. As the town has grown and spread out new homes have been built along the main roads and nc, re idential areas d...
Jeff er on ------... • --ounty Hi tori cal • oc1et Jacob Stone House Designated Charles Town Historic Landmark ---• - --- -- ---- -- --~~ a. ~ -= --/ --,-,...-j-.-61 The Jacob tone hou e ha been de ignated an Hi toric Landmark b the harle Town Landmark Commi ion. It i located on ...
...s in the mountains in this county have been bought by this company & they say they want a town of 10,000 people at the Junction, it is the best shipping point they can find. This Col. Cowling was a Confederate soldier & saw the beauties &facilities .of this county during the War....
Je fer on ( t1nl , Hi tori al ociet 43 Charles Town Celebrates Its First o Hundred Years, 1986 harle n ob r ed the bicentennial of it founding with a gala celebrati n 011 the eekend f June l -22 19 6. The founding father harle a hingt n~ a the unge t brother of our fir t Pre iden...
...own wheat etc. Mr Chew here this evening -Hector Isler2 9 passed at dusk -Confederates in town again -Cool When James Hooff resumed writing in the journal, it was a sure sign of two things. Hooff only returned home when the 2 nd Virginia Regiment was nearby, and most importantly,...
...umbling documents, providing the pages are turnd b. pa i nt hands. In the summer of 1780, Charles Washington and his if Mildred arrived at the present location of Charles Town, Jeffe1 .. son county West Virginia, to take up resi d nc in th i1 .. new home Happy Retreat. Cha1--Ies...
12 Magazine of the Simms Powell, was born there. They also had a son Charles, born 1826. After living in Wheeling for a few years they returned to Shepherdstown where Edmund was encouraged to estab lish a law practice. It was soon after this that the first Leeland was built by M...
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