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Monroe County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0102
Overview

Court case papers, wills, deeds, surveys and plats, ca.1772-1879, along with bound volumes of court records, deeds, estrays, road and tax records, a register for free blacks, and private account books, 1783-1923. The account books include: records of a U.S. Army post hospital at Union, 1867-1869; oil well drilling, 1886-1890; Union and Fort Spring Stage Line, 1876-1877; newspapers, 1867-1903; taverns, 1815-1872; and Union Lyceum minutes, 1845-1847.

Dates: ca. 1772-1923
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County Schools, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0123
Scope and Contents Records of Monroe County public schools, including a printed circular relating to the allocation of revenues of the Literary Fund under the Act of Assembly of 21 February 1818; manuscript financial reports, receipts, orders for tuition and teachers' salaries, attendance and progress reports, lists of books and supplies, reports on the number of schools in operation, and other records.Microfilm for this collection is available, including:Reel 1. 1818-1843...
Dates: 1818-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Peter Larew Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1603
Overview Papers of a pioneer Monroe County family, including a manuscript ciphering book, 1790, a diary of a journey to southwestern Ohio, 1810, a manuscript militia manual and company roster, and various business, church, and legal papers of county militia captain, Peter Larew. The papers of his son, John M., include a general merchandise account book, the estate papers, and various business and legal documents. The collection also contains a series of letters, 1876-1892, from John Larew's sons in...
Dates: 1790-1892
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Salt Sulphur Springs Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0512
Scope and Contents Daybooks, ledgers, journals, letter books and reports. Primarily concern the various business enterprises of the Salt Sulphur Springs Company including general store, hotel, stage line, telegraph company and farm. Also a letter book of the Oriental Powder Mills, Charleston, W.Va, of which John W.M. Appleton was agent; general store daybooks of E.D. Ballard; hotel and general store cash and daybooks of Erskine and Caruthers from Lexington and Salt Sulphur Springs. Records of the M.C.C.C. and...
Dates: 1819-1932
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Salt Sulphur Springs Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1377
Scope and Contents

Guest register of the Salt Sulphur Springs Hotel in Monroe County, West Virginia.

Dates: 1894-1904
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Southeastern West Virginia Historical Records, Civil War Letters and Other Material

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Collection Number: A&M 2169
Overview Records relating to the history of southeastern West Virginia. Most of the items in the collection relate to Greenbrier and/or Monroe County. Includes antebellum (1833-1850; 7 items), Civil War (1861-1863; 4 items), and postbellum (1886-1933; 9 items) materials. Antebellum material includes a land suit, an estate report and schedule, other financial documents, and personal letter. Civil War material includes four letters authored by Confederate soldiers. Two of these letters describe the...
Dates: 1825-1933; Majority of material found in 1833-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Sweet Springs Hotel Records

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Collection Number: A&M 0479
Overview

Business records of the Sweet Springs Hotel of Sweet Springs, Monroe County, including journals, departure books, inventories and miscellaneous volumes. In 1792 William Lewis built the town and hotel as a health resort; in 1830-33, and again in 1857, additional buildings were added.

Dates: 1860-1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Hotels 3
Diaries and journals. 2
Education 2
General stores 2
Salt Sulphur Springs (W. Va.) 2
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Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 2
Transportation 2
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
California 1
Carnifex Ferry, Battle of, W. Va., 1861 1
Charleston (W. Va.) 1
Church buildings 1
Civil War -- Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Civil War - West Virginia. 1
Civil War - soldier's letters, Confederate. 1
Civil War -- letters 1
Civil War -- Confederate Army 1
Civil War -- Confederate letters 1
Civil War -- Draft 1
Civil War -- Kanawha Valley, W. Va. 1
Civil War -- Nicholas County, W. Va. 1
Civil War battles. 1
Court records 1
Drugs and druggists. 1
Estates and estate settlements. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Frontier and pioneer life 1
Gauley River (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County (W. Va.) 1
Greenbrier County - Civil War. 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Land - controversies. 1
Land. 1
Militia 1
Mill Creek. 1
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Nicholas County (W. Va.) 1
Nicholas County - Civil War. 1
Ohio 1
Oriental Powder Mills. 1
Petroleum industry and trade 1
Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
Schools - Monroe County. 1
Soldiers' letters - Civil War. 1
Sweet Springs. 1
Taverns (Inns) 1
Taxation 1
Teachers 1
Travel accounts. 1
Union. 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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Salt Sulphur Springs Company 2
Salt Sulphur Springs Hotel 2
Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913 1
Ballard, E.D. 1
Floyd, John B. (John Buchanan), 1806-1863 1
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Larew, John M. 1
Larew, Peter 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Lewis, William. 1
Literary Fund 1
Loring, William Wing, 1818-1886 1
Mill Creek School 1
Monroe County (W. Va.) 1
Monroe County Court 1
Oriental Powder Mills (Charleston, W. Va.) 1
Sharitz family 1
Sweet Springs Hotel 1
Union Lyceum (West Virginia) 1
Union and Fort Spring Stage Line. 1
Yonce family 1
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