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Adolphus DeBussey, Soldier, Civil War Letters

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Collection Number: A&M 3296
Scope and Contents Civil War correspondence of the DeBussey brothers of Ravenswood, WV. There is a single letter each from John DeBussey and George DeBussey. John DeBussey served in the Confederate Army while George DeBussey served in the 2nd. WV Cavalry. Most of the letters are from Adolphus DeBussey who served in the 4th. WV Infantry as a musician. In his letters Adolphus documents the service of his regiment in the Kanawha Valley early in the war and in the Western Theater during the battles of Vicksburg,...
Dates: 1861-1998; Majority of material found in 1861-1866, 1870-1871
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Betsy McCreight, Collector, Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2961
Overview Miscellaneous items, mainly dealing with the southern counties of West Virginia, particularly the Miller family of Logan County. These include one letter from B.F. Miller of Enterprise, Oregon to his brother, John S. Miller of Logan, two letters from Tollison Shumat of Raleigh County to his daughter, Clara Shumat Miller, and a letter from John L. Miller of Virginia to Mr. and Mrs. John S. Miller of Logan, describing President Harding's funeral. Also includes a letter from West Virginia...
Dates: 1887-1923
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Buffalo Creek Disaster Scrapbooks and Clippings

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Collection Number: A&M 4527
Scope and Contents This collection consists of 701 .tif files representing six scrapbooks and one envelope of newsclippings and pamphlets documenting the aftermath of the Buffalo Creek Flood, which occurred on February 26, 1972 in Logan County, West Virginia. The flooding was caused by a Pittston Coal Company coal slurry impoundment dam bursting. Subjects covered in the clippings include investigation into Pittston Coal Company, survival stories, and legal disputes. A small number of original community and...
Dates: 1972-1982
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

County Highway Maps for West Virginia

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Daniel Murdock Buffalo Creek Litigation Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 4513
Scope and Contents

This collection primarily contains bound legal documents relating to legal cases resulting from the Buffalo Creek flood of February 26, 1972: Dennis Prince et al. v. the Pittston Company, Justice et al. v. the Pittston Company, West Virginia v. the Pittston Company, and the Governor’s Ad Hoc Commission of Inquiry papers. Testimonies, maps, illustrations, and photographs are included.

Dates: 1972-1978
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

George Rogers Clark Floyd (1810-1895) Manuscripts

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Collection Number: A&M 0941
Overview

Correspondence, clippings and other documents collected through 1953, on George Rogers Clark Floyd, secretary of state for the Territory of Wisconsin, 1845-1848, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, 1872-1873, and longtime resident of Logan County. There is data on other members of the Floyd family.

Dates: 1843-1953
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gibson Lamb Cranmer Papers regarding Statehood and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2848
Overview Papers regarding West Virginia statehood and the history of Wheeling and Ohio County compiled by Judge Gibson L. Cranmer (1826-1903) of Wheeling, West Virginia, who served as secretary of the Wheeling Convention that repudiated Virginia's secession from the United States in 1861. Series 1 includes manuscript narratives and correspondence describing events of the West Virginia statehood movement, written by eyewitnesses at the request of Gibson L. Cranmer. Manuscript authors include John S....
Dates: 1787-1895, undated; Majority of material found within 1822-1881
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hagers Cemetery Photos

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Collection Number: A&M 4213
Content Description

34 digital photographs from Hagers Cemetery, in Stone Branch, just outside Chapmanville, in Logan County, West Virginia. The photos were taken by Brandon Ray Kirk and mostly show gravestones. Family names on the gravestones include Hager, Elkins, Justice, Stamper, Hale, Moore, Williamson, and more.

Dates: 2016
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hatfield and Browning Families, Clippings

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Collection Number: A&M 2251
Overview

A collection of clippings from various WV newspapers pertaining to the Hatfield and Browning families. Names mentioned include Cap. Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield, Dr. Daniel S. Hatfield, William Anderson Hatfield, Henry D. Hatfield, Tennis Hatfield, Rev. J.C. Hatfield, L.W. "Elba" Hatfield, Smith Hatfield, Rebecca Curry Browning, and Robert Anderson Browning. Xerox copy.

Dates: 1925-1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Howard Sutherland, Senator, Women's Suffrage Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2503
Overview A collection of 400 letters, cards, petitions, telegrams, printed, and other similar items received and sent by U.S. Senator and Representatives Howard Sutherland (1865-1950) of West Virginia. The papers are part of Sutherland's constituent mail and are all concerned with the question of women's suffrage. The period covered is 1914-1919, and correspondence regarding both the Bristow-Mondell House Resolution, considered in Jan. 1915, and the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, voted upon 5 June 1919,...
Dates: 1914-1919
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Confederate States of America 1
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Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 1
Cranmer, Gibson L. (Gibson Lamb), 1826-1903 1
Cumberland Road 1
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Daughters of the American Revolution. West Virginia Chapters 1
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Dewees, Daniel S. 1
Dingess Run Coal Company 1
Donovan Leisure Newton & Irvine 1
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English, Thomas Dunn, 1819-1902 1
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Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology 1
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Jefferson County, West Virginia. Circuit Court 1
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Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 1
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Laurel Coal and Land Company 1
Leslie Woman Suffrage Commission 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
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