Morgantown Municipal Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3304
Collection includes microfilm copies and original municipal records of the city of Morgantown, West Virginia, from the office of the city clerk.
Sixty-one microfilm reels of Morgantown municipal records kept by the city clerk include city council journals of meetings (1838-2013), ordinance books (1905-2013), resolution books (1990-2013), municipal election records (1979-2013), and deed books (1916-2013). The deed books include not only deeds but also contracts, leases, and agreements. There are records of street annulments, private property sold to the city, and about infrastructure facilities such as traffic lights, buses, the airport, and the water treatment plant.
Addendum of 2018/06/25 includes paper records from the office of the city clerk, and some records which appear to be from the office of the city manager. Types of records include reports, correspondence, publications, financial records, and more. Subjects include Community Development Block Grants, Housing and Urban Development, utilities, sidewalks, the Morgantown Municipal Airport, the Beechurst Power Plant, complaints on a variety of subjects, West Virginia University, state government, transportation, City Council, and a variety of other city functions and services.
It is not clear how much overlap exists between the original accession of microfilm reels and the physical content in the addendum; record books are not present in the addendum.
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58.75 Linear Feet (Summary: 58 ft. 9 in. (47 record cartons, 15 in. each); 61 reels of microfilm)
The addendum of 2018/06/25 was arranged and its contents list created by AmeriCorps worker(s) and volunteers prior to its donation. Some boxes are described at the folder level, some at the box level. Some boxes described at the folder level do not contain foldered materials; some boxes described at the box level contain foldered materials. Series titles were derived from the original “box description”.
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / Fax: 304-293-3981 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
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