West Virginia. State Road Commission
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
County Highway Maps for West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4479
Content Description
Highway maps for the 55 counties of West Virginia created in 1937. They are in two tones (blue on white), in varying dimensions (including items in the range of 36 in. x 36 in. to 36 in. x 58 in., etc.), and scaled to 1 inch equaling 1 mile. Features indicated on the maps include: roads (US, primary state roads, secondary state roads); state, county, district, and corporate lines; railroads; streams; parks and forests; highway bridges; county seats; cities and villages; lodges; farms;...
Dates:
1937
Paul H. Price, Surveyor, Photographic Survey of West Virginia Roads and Other Material
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3690
Overview
Photographs compiled by Paul H. Price. The collection includes a photographic survey of West Virginia roads conducted by Price for the State Road Commission of West Virginia in the period ca. 1925-1935. Many of West Virginia's counties are included in this series of photographs. There are also photographs of the West Virginia landscape (most notably the eastern panhandle), unidentified landscapes, archaeological artifacts, the Paul H. Price family, and other material. Includes negatives and...
Dates:
1925-1935
Roland P. Davis, Engineer, Records regarding Bridges in West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3881
Overview
Records of Engineer Roland P. Davis, who was associated with the College of Engineering at West Virginia University, serving as a professor (1911-1932), and later as Dean (1932-1955). These papers document his work as a consultant, including work for the State Road Commission as a "Consulting Bridge Engineer". There are extensive records and photographs regarding bridges in West Virginia, including the New Martinsville Bridge, the Parkersburg suspension bridge, and others. There are also...
Dates:
ca. 1955-1970
Smith Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0840
Overview
Papers of the Mortimer Wilson Smith family, Clarksburg, West Virginia. There are letters of the Chapin family of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Clarksburg, 1800-1904. Subjects include descriptions of Clarksburg, schools, churches, and family affairs. Included are three scrapbooks of the Mortimer W. Smith family, covering family history, and typescripts of speeches made by Smith, 1936-1939, as chief engineer of the West Virginia State Road Commission and as director of the Motor Carrier...
Dates:
1800-1942
William S. Downs, Engineering Professor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2946
Scope and Contents
Downs was an engineering professor at West Virginia University and an engineer with the West Virginia State Road Commission. Includes records and photos of road-building projects in Bolivia and West Virginia, photograph albums of West Virginia hydro-electric plant construction, lists of lot owners for the area flooded by Cheat Lake, and a memoir of Downs' student years at West Virginia University, ca. 1905.
Dates:
1900-1926
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- Barbour County (W. Va.) 1
- Beaver Hole Dam. 1
- Berkeley County (W. Va.) 1
- Bolivia 1
- Boone County (W. Va.) 1
- Braxton County (W. Va.) 1
- Bridges -- West Virginia 1
- Brooke County (W. Va.) 1
- Cabell County (W. Va.) 1
- Calhoun County (W. Va.) 1
- Cheat Lake (W. Va.) 1
- Cheat River Power Project 1
- Churches -- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Civil engineering 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Clay County (W. Va.) 1
- Dams 1
- Doddridge County (W. Va.) 1
- Education 1
- Fayette County (W. Va.) 1
- Floods 1
- Geology 1
- Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
- Grant County (W. Va.) 1
- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
- Hampshire County (W. Va.) 1
- Hancock County (W. Va.) 1
- Hardy County (W. Va.) 1
- Harrison County (W. Va.) 1
- Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
- Jefferson County (W. Va.) 1
- Kanawha County (W. Va.) 1
- Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
- Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County (W. Va.) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Marshall County (W. Va.) 1
- Mason County (W. Va.) 1
- McDowell County (W. Va.) 1
- Mercer County (W. Va.) 1
- Mineral County (W. Va.) 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
- Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
- Ohio County (W. Va.) 1
- Oil and Gas Industry and Fields. 1
- Pendleton County (W. Va.) 1
- Pleasants County (W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Preston County (W. Va.) 1
- Property Owners, Cheat Area. 1
- Putnam County (W. Va.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Randolph County (W. Va.) 1
- Ritchie County (W. Va.) 1
- Road Construction. 1
- Roads 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Roane County (W. Va.) 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Summers County (W. Va.) 1
- Taylor County (W. Va.) 1
- Tucker County (W. Va.) 1
- Tyler County (W. Va.) 1
- Upshur County (W. Va.) 1
- Water-power 1
- Wayne County (W. Va.) 1
- Webster County (W. Va.) 1
- West Virginia University -- Faculty 1
- West Virginia University -- Students 1
- Wetzel County (W. Va.) 1
- Wirt County (W. Va.) 1
- Wood County (W. Va.) 1
- Wyoming County (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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