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... Grade Road. Popodicon was built in I 907 by Henry W. Potts, a civil engineer who came to Shepherdstown in 1879 to lay out a section of what is now the Norfolk and Western Railroad. While here he met and married Eleanor Powell of Shepherdstown and decided to live here after his r...
........................................................................................ 5 A Shepherdstown Tragedy, compiled by Elizabeth Snyder Lowe ............................................................................. 17 The Gibson House, Shepherdstown, contributed by Audr...
...as manifested in the proceedings. There was no undue excitement, however. THE MURDER CASE Shepherdstown Register May 27, 1892 There will be no change of venue in the case of Harry F. Smootz, indicated for the murder of Miss Susie Ferrell in Shepherdstown on the 21st of last Janua...
... in order that our readers may have the report of the trial as soon as possible. ON TRIAL Shepherdstown Register Friday, June 10, 1892 Harry F. Smootz, Who Killed Miss Susie Ferrell, on Trial for the Murder GREAT INTEREST IN THE CASE The Court-room Crowded with Spectators The Pri...
...estified to accuracy of map put in evidence by the State's Attorney. Jack Barrett: Was in Shepherdstown ten or twelve days before the shooting. While walking along the street with Smootz the latter told him that he intended to shoot Susie Ferrell. The witness was subjected to a v...
...es of this letter to Hagerstown to three different parties and distributed five copies in Shepherdstown. You should have gone a little more mild, for what this letter tells you is so. H.F. Smootz'' In this letter was inclosed the one improper to publish. The foil owing is a lette...
... pnsoner was sane. J.S. Myers: Knew prisoner well; considered him as bright as any man in Shepherdstown. J.J.W. Johnson: Knew prisoner well; thought he had a fearful temper; considered him as sane as any young man in Shepherdstown.Saw him about ten minutes before shooting. T.W. S...
...risoner was taken back to his cell, and another step in the great tragedy had been taken. Shepherdstown Register September 16, 1892 NO NEW TRIAL FOR HARRY SMOOTZ The Supreme Court of West Virginia, in session at Charlestown, has refused a new trial to Harry F. Smootz, who shot an...
...e: Mr. William Darke Briscoe of Piedmont, often composed verse about historical events in Shepherdstown. The editor has discovered more about the provenance of ''Mecklenburg'' than is usually known about Briscoe' s other compositions. In 1993, Dr. Cecil D. Eby had submitted the p...
60 The Magazine of the Shepherdstown. Their farm was always under suspicion by the Federals Troops. Her father, a U.S. rural mailman, would carry letters through the opposing lines. When Coopsie became older about fifteen she helped him by concealing letters about her body when c...
... open for 27 years. Its doors closed on September 2, 1903 and mail services were moved to Shepherdstown It was described as being 5 miles from the Opequon Creek in an easterly direction, and 1 mile from the Potomac River. Shepherdstown was five miles to the east and Bedington was...
...National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (N.S.D.A.R.) also erected a marker, Shepherdstown, in 1932. The State of West Virginia then adopted the historic road marker program, and published the first book of road markers in 1937. Another book was published in 1967, wh...
... 15, 1939. N. Duke Street (State Route 480), on the west end of the Potomac River bridge, Shepherdstown. 15. Jefferson County Formed, 1801 from Berkeley. Named for Thomas Jefferson. Home of Generals Gates, Darke, and Charles Lee. Here four companies of Washington's men organized....
...itorium. Various organizations, including the Charles Town Landmarks Commission, Historic Shepherdstown, the Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission, the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, Inc., Middleway Historic Conservancy, the Old Opera House, and the...
...tty Reinhart, and Bill Theriault. Other weekend events included walking tours of historic Shepherdstown, displays and sales from local artists, music events, a Farmers Market, and an open house at the Entler Museum and DAR/UDC Genealogy Library. Middleway Day, an annual event, wa...
...County were intimidated by the populace. Pro ecution of the outrage never resulted. 96 At Shepherdstown on the Potomac River, Negroes di played more initiative and independence in providing themselves with a school than elsewhere in Jefferson County. They ecured a lot for a build...
...e to the existing needs of the community for another bridge across the Potomac at or near Shepherdstown or to the probable need of such other bridge across the Potomac at or near [ 681] Shepherdstown in the near future; but in considering the market-value of this natural abutment...
...agazine of the willing to defend their claims to any large land holdings near present-day Shepherdstown, the evidence being the number of springs, creeks and rich bottom lands -the most valuable real estate-that remained to be claimed in the late 1720s by families such as the Van...
... tribes; another ancient trail crossed the river at Pack Horse ford about a mile south of Shepherdstown. There seems not to have been any large or long term settlements of Native Americans in the Shepherdstown area when Europeans began moving into the valley; the Maryland Counci...
...d the moniker Indian Van). He would later become a soldier in the Revolution. Other local Shepherdstown families, continuing in the tradition of their parents and grandparents, also moved to the western frontier and took up land near the eastern bank of the Ohio River near presen...
...ldren. Later still a James Bell is a boat owner floating goods to Alexandria markets from Shepherdstown (Dandridge 1910), a skill he may have acquired working for the Swearingens. In 1783 Col. Van Swearingen' s tax records indicate 6 slaves under 16 years of age, 6 slaves over 16...
... prominent in the history of Terrapin Neck. He was the son of Thomas Shepherd, founder of Shepherdstown. The Shepherd family, like the Swearingens, had spent time on land in Prince Georges County, Maryland and near the Monocacy River before moving across the Potomac into Virginia...
...at we now know as Shepherd Grade probably did not yet exist). The 242-acre tract close to Shepherdstown along the Potomac that Van had received in a 1760 Fairfax grant was valued at a little over £302 pounds, and was given to Lurannah and her husband William Bennett. Land near th...
84 The Magazine of the A.D. Kenamond, I 963. Prominent Men of Shepherdstown during its first 200 years. Jefferson County Historical Society Publication. Samuel Kercheval, 1973. A History of the Valley of Virginia. Fifth Edition. Shenandoah Publishing House, Strasburg, VA. 405 pp....
...e for the purpose of purchasing a suitable lot and building an Academy thereon in or near Shepherdstown. Subscribers Names Henry Boteler Wm Butler George Reynolds Daniel Buckles John G. Cookus William McMurran Edward Lucas, Snr. James McMurran Robert Lucas (NOTE): Above document ...
...Henry was a stalwart Democrat, and like his parents was active in the Episcopal Church in Shepherdstown. Two long-time workmen for Henry during the 1830s and 1840s are a George Price and a Robert Evans (Shepherd Family Papers, sect. 4). A typical notation in the account book: Rob...
...ed to support the operations of the Entler's Great Western Hotel and stable operations in Shepherdstown, a business that catered to teamsters and traders. James Markell' s old wool factory on the comer of Princess and High Streets in Shepeherdstown, after years of litigation, rec...
...ion in the Revolutionary War under Col. Hugh Stephenson. He marched with his company from Shepherdstown to Boston, in July, 1775, and in March, 1776, returned to New York. He was in the celebrated battle of King Bridge, Nov 16th, 1776, and after Col. Rawlings and Major Otho H. Wi...
...ne family members were arranging for their loved ones to be buried in Elmwood Cemetery in Shepherdstown and elsewhere. Town cemeteries gained in popularity during the Victorian era, and this may be one reason the Chapline family stopped burying their dead in the family burial gro...
...m and Ann and Anna's first cousin, once removed. Isaac was a lawyer and Deputy Sheriff of Shepherdstown; he died at the age of 39, leaving a young wife and four mall children. Margaret Emeline married a dashing military man during the Civil War (see the McKevitte section.) James ...
..., 1 rood & 18 poles, near Town Run 1/2 acre, adjacent to the Shepherd line & lot l 93, in Shepherdstown**** l/2 acre, adjacent to the Shepherd line 3 acres & 11 poles, adjacent to Princess Street cemetery by Mary Bedinger Mitchell, a grand-daughter of Daniel Bedinger, indicated i...
...3, 5; and Section V, Letter I). Reverend Davis, minister of Methodist Episcopal Church in Shepherdstown, manumitted Samuel Lincoln according to a 27 Oct 1845 letter written by John T. Hargrave, Presbyterian minister in Shepherdstown. 39 No deed of manumission was found in Jeffers...
...1999 $18 2000-current $13 Other JCHS publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 - $14.00 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) -$55.00 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson Cou...
...an a particular plantation. William Moore's Elkwood Farm was on the road from Halltown to Shepherdstown in 1833. In 1835, the stable of William C. House at Elk Wood is described as 5 miles west of Harpers Ferry, immediately on the Shepherdstown and Leesburg Road. In 1846, when th...
...1999 $18 2000-current $13 Other JCHS publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 - $14.00 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) -$55.00 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson Cou...
...1999 $18 2000-current $13 Other JCHS publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 -$14.00 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) - $55.00 Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson Cou...
...a very interesting though very funereal relic. It is a tombstone which was found ... near Shepherdstown. The stone bears the inscription showing that it marked the resting place of Catarina Beierlin, and that she was born in 1687 and died in 1707. This latter date ante-dates the ...
...Ferry u annah Buckles, Shenandoah Junction Barbara Gib on, Harpers Ferry Keith Alexander, Shepherdstown Jame L Glymph, Avon Bend Betsy Well , Charles Town P. Dougla Perk , Shepherdstown John D. Glymph, Avon Bend Donna orthou e, Summit Point Jame L Glymph, Avon Bend Director : \ 1...
...000-current $10 ($13 PPD) Other JCHS publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 -$10 ($14 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) -$40 ($45 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of ...
...968. 2 For example, see Josepl1 Barry, The Strange Story of Harper's Ferry, 11th edition, Shepherdstown, West Virginia: The Shepherdstown Register, 1994 (reprint of original 1903 book), pp. 96-99; Millard Kessler Bushong, A History of Jefferson County West Virginia, Charles Town,...
...tected by an arc described by Charlestown at its center, one arm which stretched north to Shepherdstown, and the other arm which extended east to Myerstown. During the Civil War, because bridges came and bridges went away, river crossings on both the Potomac at Pack Horse Ford do...
...000-current $10 ($13 PPD) Other JCHS publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 -$10 ($14 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) - $40 ($45 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of...
...1833, C. Leon Harris, transc., revwarapps.com (viewed 12/ l 7 / l 7); Dandridge, Historic Shepherdstown, 261. 23 James Carter pension, 1833; Dandridge, Historic Shepherdstown, 260-261 24 Oliver Evans, The Young Mill-Wright and Millers Guide (Philadelphi a: Oliver Evans, 1795), 50...
...Bridge built by King Bridge Company in I 890. Photograph c. l 920s. Courtesy the Historic Shepherdstown Commission. rying off the portion of the bridge destroyed." The Spirit of Jefferson also reported that ''the more exposed buildings on the Maryland side of the river [Bridgepor...
...e Andrews, son of Charles Wesley Andrews, long-time Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Shepherdstown. Their son, also named Matthew Page, was a well-known author and historian who wrote Virginia, the Old Dominion ((which many qualified historians hold to be the best history of...
...2000current $10 ($13 PPD) Other JCHS publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 -$10 ($14 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) - $40 ($45 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of...
...nd area and Berkeley County, Virginia. 33 Shortly after this, Nathaniel Willis arrived in Shepherdstown after having first moved to Winchester from his home town of Boston, Massachusetts. Willis established the first print shop in Northern Virginia and began publishing the Potowm...
...reface Daniel Bedinger made daily entries during his journey to New Orleans and return to Shepherdstown, Virginia, now West Virginia. The daily events were carefully and briefly expressed. Daniel's fine Italian hand I does suffer from the poor writing conditions under which the n...
...ad two main alternatives as to the route they could have taken back from Fort Stoddert to Shepherdstown. One, would take them on an overland route northward to the Natchez Trace, following the Natchez Trace to Nashville, thence eastward through Tennessee and possibly Kentucky to ...
...000-current $10 ($13 PPD) Other JCHS publications (order same as above): Prominent Men of Shepherdstown 1762-1962 -$10 ($14 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of Jefferson County, WV (Book) - $40 ($45 PPD) Between the Shenandoah and Potomac: Historic Homes of...
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