Preston County
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Preston County Miscellaneous Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0607
Scope and Contents
Papers relating to an electric power line franchise application by the West Virginia Public Service Company to the town of Bruceton, 1930; copy of an agreement between R. B. Waddel and George H. Nieman on the use of a farm, March 17, 1900; a note dated April 26, 1918, given by the Bruceton Bank in favor of A. J. Chorpening and M. F. Chorpenning; mimeographed map of Cooper's Rock State Forest showing roads and refuge areas.
Dates:
1900-1930
Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Land Grant
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0892
Scope and Contents
A land grant signed by Wyndham Robertson, Esq; Lt. Gov. of Virginia, granting land in Preston County to Abraham Listons, Mar 17, 1835 ; and a bound manuscript workbook containing mathematical exercises in reduction of vulgar (improper) fractions, ca. 1840
Dates:
1835-1840
Preston County Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0956
Overview
Papers from the Leroy Bucklew Museum in the Preston County, West Virginia, courthouse. The collection includes early papers relating to land, court cases, mills and furnaces, post offices, inns, mineral development, Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Company, roads, the Virginia-Maryland boundary, and estate settlements. There are photographs of Preston County and Kingwood, and maps of Kingwood, Bruceton Mills, Rowlesburg, Manheim, and of Berkeley Springs, Morgan County. Also includes...
Dates:
1775-1918
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- Subject: Land. X
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- Bruceton Mills (W. Va.) 2
- Maps. 2
- Berkeley Springs (W. Va.) 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.) 1
- Court records 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Geology 1
- Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
- Kingwood (W. Va.) 1
- Mathematics 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Morgan County (W. Va.) 1
- Postal service 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Kingwood Railroad. 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Rowlesburg (W. Va.) 1
- Surveyors and surveying. 1
- Taverns (Inns) 1
- Transportation 1
- Virginia-Maryland boundary. 1 + ∧ less
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