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Alex Welch Survey Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0832
Overview

This collection includes several papers of Alex Welch's survey business, 1786-1801. Surveys were done for William Hunter Cavendish, Adonijah Matthews, Warder, Parker, and Company and William Morrow. The geographical locations include several places in Greenbrier and Kanawha counties in Virginia.

Dates: 1786-1801
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Atkeson-Morgan Family Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 3372
Scope and Contents Papers of John and Sarah Atkeson-Morgan documenting Atkeson-Morgan family history and the history of the Morgan home and farm in Putnam County, West Virginia for period ca. 1840-1900.Materials include Civil War papers; personal and business correspondence; legal documents; school compositions and poetry; one photograph; and invoices and receipts.Subjects include: personal business (such as health, travel, and courtship), farm business, hunting, education (particularly...
Dates: 1833-1923; Majority of material found in 1850-1900
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, Records

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Bradford Noyes (b.1860) Typed Document

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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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company, Archives

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Collection Number: A&M 2566
Overview

Car record books of the Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company, in Kanawha and McDowell counties. Listed are consignees, serial numbers, types of cars, route, destination, and related information for the Acme, Empire, Buckeye, and Keystone mines.

Dates: 1907-1908
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clement Smith, Civil War Letter to General Scammon

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Collection Number: A&M 3780
Overview Letter by Clement Smith of Peytona, Boone County, West Virginia, a civilian, to Eliakim P. Scammon, Union General, dated 29 October 1863. Smith requests that General Scammon endorse his claim for several boats taken by Union troops in 1862. Smith writes about General William S. Rosecrans and the negative opinions of him held by the public and the press after the Battle of Chickamauga. Smith also observes that Scammon has been accused of secessionist sympathies on account of building plank...
Dates: 1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Coal Mining Disaster Reports Collection

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Collection Number: A&M 4203
Overview Mine disaster reports, official hearing reports, and hearing and inquest transcripts (1938-1967). Most of the mine disaster reports were created by inspectors from the West Virginia Department of Mines, and some of them involved federal inspectors. Other reports were created by the United States Bureau of Mines and the West Virginia Department of Mines Coal Mine Safety Board of Review. Also includes volumes 3 through 8 of the Decisions of the Interior Board of Mine...
Dates: 1938-1977
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

Dana Brothers Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 2063
Overview Partnership of George H. and Stephen F. Dana of Kanawha County, West Virginia, engaged in coal mining and general merchandise. The collection includes production records, inventory, shipping book, payroll sheets, a daybook, and a letter book. S.F. Dana was also one of the organizers of the Campbell's Creek Coal Co. There is also a letter book of George H. Dana created while he served as agent, 1871-1875, in England for Jos. Hall Manufacturing Company, holder of the English patent on James...
Dates: 1871-1889
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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Ruffner family 4
Wilson family 4
Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike Company 3
Hansford, Felix G. 3
James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company 3
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Kanawha County Court (Kanawha County, W. Va.) 3
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 3
American Red Cross 2
Barboursville College 2
Hale, John P. 2
Imboden, John D. (John Daniel), 1823-1895 2
Kanawha County 2
Lewis family 2
Lewis, John D. 2
McCausland, John, 1836-1927 2
McKinley, William, 1843-1901 2
Ruffner, Lewis, 1797-1883. 2
Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868 2
Whig Party (U.S.) 2
Alexander, Herbert Lee. 1
Ambler, Charles Henry, 1876-1957 1
American Colonization Society 1
American Pharmaceutical Association 1
Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine for North America. Beni-Kedem Temple (Charleston, W. Va.) 1
Armstrong, Ned. 1
Arnold, E.S. 1
Arnold, Thomas Jackson. 1
Atkeson-Morgan Family 1
Atkins family 1
Atkinson, Geo. W. (George Wesley), 1845-1925 1
Bakewell, Theron Hervey. 1
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company 1
Basil, Ben. 1
Beckley, Alfred, 1802-1888 1
Bennett family 1
Bennett, Jonathan McCally, 1816-1887. 1
Berkeley Springs Sanitarium 1
Blackford family 1
Boone, Daniel, 1734-1820 1
Boreman, Arthur Inghram, 1823-1896 1
Botsford, Eli W. 1
Brigham, William. 1
Brooke, Robert. 1
Brooks, Frederick. 1
Brooks, James S. 1
Brooks, William C. 1
Brooks, William E. (William Elizabeth), 1875-1960 1
Brown, James H. 1
Brown, John, 1800-1859 1
Brown, John. 1
Buchanan, James, 1791-1868 1
Burchinal, George A. 1
Burdett, John S. 1
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836 1
C.H. Mead Coal Company 1
Cabin Creek Consolidated Coal Company 1
Calhoun, John C. (John Caldwell), 1782-1850 1
Camden family 1
Camden, Gideon Draper, 1805-1891 1
Camden, Mary Belt Sprigg. 1
Camden, Thomas Bland, 1829-1910 1
Campbell's Creek Coal Company 1
Campbell, Alexandar. 1
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation 1
Carlile, John S. (John Snyder), 1817-1878 1
Carter, Watson. 1
Cavendish, William Hunter. 1
Chappell, Henry. 1
Charleston Daily Mail 1
Chitwood, Oliver Perry, 1874-1971 1
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1
Clarkson, John. 1
Clay, Henry, 1777-1852 1
Coal River and Kanawha Mining and Manufacturing Company 1
Coalburg-Kanawha Mining Company 1
Coalman, Daniel. 1
Colonial Timber and Coal Corporation 1
Confederate States of America 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 22nd. Company B 1
Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 31st 1
Conklyn family 1
Consolidation Coal Company 1
Cook, Roy Bird, 1886-1961 1
Cooke, John Esten, 1830-1886. 1
Cookus, Joseph Lambright. 1
Cooper, William P. 1
Cornell University 1
Cox, Jacob D (Jacob Dolson), 1828-1900 1
Cranmer, Gibson L. (Gibson Lamb), 1826-1903 1
Crook, George, 1828-1890 1
Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864 1
Cumberland Road 1
Cushwa family 1
Dana Brothers 1
Dana, George H. 1
Dana, Stephen F. 1
Davis Coal and Coke Company 1
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 1823-1916 1
Debar, Joseph Hubert Diss. 1
Deep Hollow Coal Company 1
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