Franklin (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
George B. McClellan, Civil War Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2967
Overview
A microfilm copy of the McClellan Papers, Vols. 12-14, held by the Library of Congress. There are letters to and from Gen. McClelland and his staff headquartered in Cincinnati. Also there are Confederate letters presumably captured during McClellan's first campaign into western Virginia. The rebel correspondence is between A.J. Wilson at Grafton and his family of Franklin and also orders from Richmond to Col. George Porterfield. Porterfield mentions the difficulty of raising Confederate...
Dates:
1861 May 15-30
Glass Plate Negatives of Franklin, West Virginia in Pendleton County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4272
Content Description
Glass plate negatives of images of subjects in the town and region of Franklin, West Virginia. Subjects include the South Branch of the Potomac River, dam (perhaps on the South Branch), Bickford Hoffman Grain, interior of a residence, horse drawn carriages (and perhaps the Bowman house), and the Bowman McClure store. Much of this collection has been digitized.
Dates:
ca. 1900-1920
Jasper Allen Moyers, Physician, Records and Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3557
Overview
Papers of Dr. Jasper Allen Moyers and his descendants. The Moyers family lived in Franklin, Pendleton County, W.Va. The collection includes personal and business correspondence, photographs, artifacts, and ephemera. The collection is organized into the following series: Historical information (undated), Correspondence - Dr. Moyers (1890-1946), Correspondence - Businesses in Harrisonburg (1920-1968), Family photographs (1862-1978), Papers of Raymond Moyers (1919-1946), Telephone Co. records...
Dates:
1862-1978; Majority of material found within 1896-1946
Pendleton County Manuscripts and Account Books
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2332
Overview
A collection of account, record, and minute books, as well as ledgers relating to the history of Franklin and Pendleton County, West Virginia. Included are account books belonging to George Hammer (1859-1889); a minute book of the Franklin Water Works (1845-1877); a Pendleton County tax book (1826); and a book of bonds for the administrators and executors of estates from 1802 to 1820. Included are letters to Mary M. Colaw, from relatives in Pendleton County, mainly concerning family news,...
Dates:
1802-1902
Schools, Pendleton County Board of Education, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1560
Overview
Records of the Circle, Franklin, Will Run, Sugar Grove, and Union school districts. Included are minutes to the Board of Education meetings, files of teacher contracts, and financial ledgers such as those for building funds.
Dates:
1894-1933
Works Progress Administration, West Virginia Publications
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4093
Overview
West Virginia related publications of the Work Progress Administration, mainly consisting of Inventories of the County Archives of West Virginia prepared by The Historical Records Survey Division of Women's and Professional Projects, as well as inventories of federal archives in West Virginia, church archives, public vital statistics, and calendars of letters and papers. Also includes two folk studies of counties by the West Virginia Writers' Program. The Historical Records Survey was a...
Dates:
1937-1941