Skip to main content Skip to search results

Showing Collections: 1 - 9 of 9

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1254
Scope and Contents

Collection includes the "Petition to the President and Directors of the B & O Railroad Co., Setting Forth the Advantages of Constructing the Road Through Kanawha County to the Ohio River, July 20, 1827.”

Dates: 1827

Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1906
Overview

Various subjects discussed include Indian attacks, turnpikes and taverns, the first telegraph system, natural gas illumination, Civil War manufacture of saltpeter, schools and economy in post-Civil War Charleston, salt and chemical industries, carrier pigeons, steamboats on the Kanawha River, and the coming of the railroad to Charleston. Persons mentioned include M.F. Maury, Jr., J.P. Hale, and J.Q. Dickinson.

Dates: 1948

Charles E. Krebs (1870-1954) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1792
Overview Scrapbooks, mainly of newspaper clippings, maintained by a mining engineer, geologist, and businessman from Charleston. The scrapbooks contain clippings, announcements, and a few letters relating to Krebs' business, Charleston civic affairs, and professional engineering organizations. Topics covered include: the oil boom at Blue Creek in 1912; oil field development in Kanawha and Clay counties; oil and coal shipments on the C.&O.; coal, oil, gas, and coke production figures; report on...
Dates: 1912, 1935, 1939

Eugene Levassor Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1363
Overview Correspondence, business and legal papers, maps and printed materials of a French emigre, land speculator, and merchant from Cincinnati and Parkersburg. Subjects include Levassor's extensive landholdings in Kanawha, Lincoln, Jackson, Wood, Wirt, and Monongalia counties, and activities of his land agents; James Swann lands; the coming of the Northwestern Virginia Railroad to Parkersburg; the Panic of 1857 in that city; oil fever in the Wood County area, 1859-1866; and the activities of J.H....
Dates: 1796-1894

Great Kanawha Coal, Oil, & Metallurgic Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2117
Overview

The collection consists of correspondence and legal papers concerning 9,580 acres in Kanawha County, West Virginia, on Cabin and Slaughter creeks, mentioning coal and railroad possibilities, interest rates, livestock breeding and costs, and organization of the company.

Dates: 1866-1894

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936

Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1561
Overview Papers collected by Roy Bird Cook, a Lewis County native and Charleston pharmacist, who in his role as historian, researcher, and author, was a pioneering and effective advocate for the preservation of West Virginia history. This collection includes the papers he collected in connection with his research, including documentation of the Civil War in West Virginia, Stonewall Jackson and his family, and genealogy of North Central West Virginia, among other topics. Materials include letters and...
Dates: 1679-1984, undated; Majority of material found within 1840-1960

William B. Gatewood (1835-1908) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2061
Overview

Correspondence, memo books, legal and business papers of a farmer and deputy sheriff residing in the Cabin Creek District near Coalburg, Kanawha County. Subjects include farm prices, land, coal, politics, and the Paint Creek Railroad.

Dates: 1861-1909

Wilson-Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2135
Overview Papers relating to the Wilson, Lewis, and Ruffner families of Prince Edward County, Virginia, Kanawha County, [West] Virginia, St. Charles County, Missouri, and Fairfield County, Ohio. Correspondence between Nathaniel V. Wilson and Dr. Goodridge Wilson, concerning land purchases, preparation for the settlement of the family, care of livestock, employment of slaves, salt making and marketing, and the market price of salt. Other members of the family migrated to St. Charles County, Missouri,...
Dates: circa 1693-1942 and undated

Filtered By

  • Subject: Kanawha County (W. Va.) X
  • Subject: Kanawha County (W. Va.) X
  • Subject: Railroads X

Filter Results

Additional filters:

Subject
Land. 5
Railroads 5
Coal mining. 3
Petroleum industry and trade 3
Salt industry and trade 3
∨ more
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 3
Account books 2
Charleston. 2
Clay County (W. Va.) 2
Colombia 2
Diaries and journals. 2
Education 2
Farms and farming. 2
Frontier and pioneer life 2
Livestock 2
Missionaries 2
Missouri 2
Ohio 2
Pennsylvania 2
Politics and government. 2
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
Slaves and slavery. 2
Steamboats 2
Transportation 2
Women's history -- 1800-1849 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Women's history -- Pre-1800 2
Academies and Institutes. 1
Accounting 1
Agriculture 1
Blue Creek (W. Va.) 1
Boone County (W. Va.) 1
Bridges -- West Virginia 1
Camp Chase (Ohio) 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Chemical industry 1
Church buildings 1
Civil War -- Camps and camp life 1
Coal mining - Mechanization. 1
Coal mining - coal companies. 1
Coal mining -- Strikes 1
Diaries 1
Elections 1
Engineering 1
Estate settlements. 1
Europe 1
Fayette County (Pa.) 1
Fortification -- West Virginia 1
French immigrants. 1
Gas industry 1
Genealogy 1
Gilmer County (W. Va.) 1
Hawks Nest Tunnel (W. Va.) 1
Hinton Dam. 1
Indians of North America 1
Iron furnaces and iron industry. 1
Jackson County (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha River (W. Va.) 1
Kanawha River Valley (W. Va.) 1
Kansas 1
Kentucky 1
Lewis County (W. Va.) 1
Lincoln County (W. Va.) 1
Lumber trade 1
Maps. 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Mexico 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
New River Gorge (W. Va.) 1
Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
Ohio River Valley -- History 1
Panic of 1857. 1
Parkersburg. 1
Pharmacy -- History 1
Philippi, Battle of, Philippi, W. Va., 1861 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Poetry. 1
Railroads - Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
Railroads - Northwestern Virginia Railroad. 1
Railroads - Paint Creek Railroad. 1
Railroads -- West Virginia 1
Rivers -- West Virginia 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Roads -- West Virginia 1
Salt industry and trade - West Virginia. 1
Schools 1
Slavery -- West Virginia 1
South America 1
Taverns (Inns) 1
Toll roads -- West Virginia 1
Travel accounts. 1
Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Military life 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Veterans 1
+ ∧ less
 
Names
Ruffner family 3
Lewis family 2
Wilson family 2
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
∨ more
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg. 1
Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910 1
Colonial Timber and Coal Corporation 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Dickinson family 1
Dickinson, J.Q. 1
Early, Jubal Anderson, 1816-1894 1
Ellis, James F. 1
Faulkner, Charles James, 1806-1884 1
Freeman, Douglas Southall, 1886-1953 1
Gallaher, D.C. 1
Gatewood, William B. 1
Gatewood, William B. (1835-1908) 1
Great Kanawha Coal, Oil and Metallurgic Company 1
Hale, J.P. 1
Hall, Granville Davisson, 1837-1934 1
Hall, John G. 1
Hall, Virgy Wilson. 1
Hayes family 1
Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893 1
Hays, Peregrine. 1
Hays, Samuel L. 1
Hill, D. H. (Daniel Harvey), 1821-1889 1
Hubbard, C. D. (Chester Dorman), 1814-1891 1
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 1
Jackson family 1
Jackson, George. 1
Jackson, J.J. 1
Jackson, Mary Anna, 1831-1915 1
Jackson, Stonewall, 1824-1863 1
Jenkins, Albert Gallatin, 1830-1864 1
Kenna, John Edward, 1848-1893 1
Krebs, C. E. (Charles E.) 1
Krebs, Charles E. (1870-1954) 1
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 1
Laidley, James M. 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Levassor, Eugene 1
Levi, Mordecai. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Jr. 1
Lewis, Charles C. Sr. 1
Lewis, Col. Charles. 1
Lewis, John D. 1
Lightburn, Joseph Andrew Jackson, 1824-1901. 1
Lisez, Charles. 1
MacCorkle, William Alexander, 1857-1930 1
Mastin, John A. 1
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1849-1886 1
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
McFarland, James C. 1
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 1
Mosby, John Singleton, 1833-1916 1
Noyes, Bradford (b. 1860) 1
Noyes, Bradford. 1
Old Sweet Springs Company 1
Pierpont, Francis Harrison, 1814-1899 1
Quarrier family 1
Quarrier, Alexander. 1
Ruffner, Andrew. 1
Ruffner, Daniel. 1
Ruffner, Joel. 1
Ruffner, Mrs. Daniel. 1
Scott, Nathan Bay, 1842-1924 1
Swann, James. 1
United Fuel Gas Company. 1
Volck, Adalbert John, 1828-1912 1
Washington, George, 1732-1799 1
West Virginia State Pharmaceutical Association 1
Wilson, Dr. Goodridge. 1
Wilson, Elizabeth Ruffner. 1
Wilson, Nathaniel V. 1
Wilson-Lewis family 1
Withers, Alexander Scott, 1792-1865 1
+ ∧ less