Roads

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Survey by Charles B. Shaw for the Board of Public Works of a road between Berkeley Springs, Morgan Co. and Shepherdstown, Jefferson Co. Provided are statistics on course and grade as well as surveying location. Also includes sketches of the route's lay of the land, including some natural features such as streams and man made features.

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The letters and papers of E.C. & H.B. Eagle, a father and son legal firm of Hinton, Summers County. Subjects mentioned are election campaigns, women's suffrage, prohibition, World War II, Korean War, gun control, and the goals and strategies of the Republican Party. Correspondents include Robert C. Byrd, Walter S. Hallanan, Rush D. Holt, Arch A. Moore, Jennings Randolph, Hulett C. Smith, Cecil Underwood.

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Instructions, memoranda, personnel reports, employee termination records, equipment rental invoices, property inventory and movement reports, employee time reports and, property incorporation records for W. P. A. projects in western Monongalia County.

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Copies of the original surveyor readings of the portion of the National Road traversing West Virginia through Ohio County. The readings are surveyor calculations of area and meridian locations. There are also side notes mentioning special features such as watercourses like Wheeling Creek. Also includes a typed copy of a letter from Richard D. Delafield, a chief engineer of the survey, to James G. Totten stating changes in the course of the National Road survey east of the Ohio River.

Overview Photographs compiled by Paul H. Price. The collection includes a photographic survey of West Virginia roads conducted by Price for the State Road Commission of West Virginia in the period ca. 1925-1935. Many of West Virginia's counties are included in this series of photographs. There are also photographs of the West Virginia landscape (most notably the eastern panhandle), unidentified landscapes, archaeological artifacts, the Paul H. Price family, and other material. Includes negatives and...

Overview A rough draft history of the main roads covering segments of highways, such as State Route 39 between Huntersville and Marlinton, in the form of a travel brochure. Mentions frontier and pre-Civil War history of such places as Mill Point and Lewisburg, but its focus is on the Civil War history of Pocahontas, Greenbrier, and Randolph counties. Significant people and places mentioned are: The Great Warrior Path, Droop Mountain, Lewisburg, White Sulphur Springs, W. W. Averell, Huntersville,...

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Highway Planning Survey sheets for all counties of West Virginia except Grant, Hardy, Monongalia, and Morgan. Sheets describe buildings and types of land use along specific segments of West Virginia roads. These sheets correspond to a collection of West Virginia County Road Maps titled (County Road Maps). WEST VIRGINIA STATE ROADS COMMISSION. n.d.