West Virginia University. Agricultural Extension Service
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Ellison Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2484
Scope and Contents
The correspondence, wills, deeds, receipts, recipes, remedies, and genealogy, of the Ellison-Dunlap Petrie families of Monroe County. The letters discuss family and business matters, enslaved Africans, the Civil War, and settlement of some family members in Kansas. There are papers about land and farming, including surveys, deeds, memos, and accounts as well as correspondence and printed material about the WVU Agricultural Extension Service. There are ledgers for Han Creek Mill and an...
Dates:
1819-1977
Nat T. Frame (1877-1948) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2631
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of letters, pamphlets, reports and similar materials collected by Nat Terry Frame for use in preparing his history of West Virginia Agricultural Extension Work, entitled West Virginia Agriculture and Rural Life. Subjects discussed in the work include regional development groups in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Ohio; rural life and community development experiments of the 1930s; American Country Life Association ideology and activities;...
Dates:
1914-1948
West Virginia Rural Surveys
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0194
Overview
Surveys of rural residents conducted by WVU Agricultural Experiment Station. Inquiries about farm land conditions, size of operations, profitability and the respondents opinions about the local community and its economic prospects. The 1924 survey was taken only in the Easton-Avery section of Monongalia County and contains an accompanying map with individual family farms number coded. The 1958 survey, a selection from around the state, is more indicative of demographics especially of out...
Dates:
1924-1958
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- Subject: Farms and farming. X
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- Subject
- Agriculture 2
- Broadsides. 1
- Cuba 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- England 1
- Jackson's Mill (W. Va.) 1
- Kansas 1
- Land. 1
- Maps. 1
- Medicine - Folk remedies. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
- New Orleans (La.) 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio River and Valley. 1
- Pennsylvania 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Rural life and community development. 1
- Rural youth work. 1
- Slaves and slavery. 1
- Travel accounts. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- West Virginia - Agricultural Extension Work. 1
- Women -- Rural life and community development 1 + ∧ less
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