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Jacob Guseman (1786-1878) Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1196
Overview
Ledgers and daybooks of Jacob Guseman, a Preston County entrepreneur who operated a general merchandise store, a fulling mill, sawmill, gristmill, and other manufactories at Muddy Creek.
Dates:
1836-1866, 1930
Papers regarding Early Settlers of Aurora in Preston County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0728
Scope and Contents
Account books, and legal, business, and personal papers of some early settlers at Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia. There are records of a tannery, blacksmith shop, a general merchandise store, and a sawmill, as well as deeds and subscription lists for the Lutheran and German Reformed churches. Also included in the papers are land surveys, wills, deeds, plats, school notebooks, tax receipts, and other items.
Dates:
1788-1943 and undated ; Majority of material found within 1820-1916
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
Samuel Hanway Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0570
Overview
Manuscript surveys and plats of land in Monongalia and Preston counties, West Virginia, by Samuel Hanway, county surveyor. There are papers showing acreage and owners; an early plat of Morgantown showing streets, lots and numbers; plat of courses of the Monongalia and Preston County boundary; maps of Monongalia and Preston counties, including a map of eleven tracts of land on Prichard and Whiteday Creek, Monongalia County, which notes the Morgantown-Clarksburg Road, Cratzer's Tavern, and the...
Dates:
1782-ca. 1818