Kanawha Valley.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn, Civil War General, Articles and Letters Regarding Joseph Lightburn
J.Q. Dickinson and Company, Papers and Photographs
Miscellaneous papers concerning the history of the Kanawha Valley salt industry, including correspondence, newspaper clippings and photographs which pertain to the Dickinson Salt Works and Malden, West Virginia. There are a list of salt works on the Kanawha River, clippings on the destruction of the Dickinson Salt Works by fire, and a historical sketch of the Kanawha Valley salt industry.
Lorena Brown (1850-1919) Letter, Typed Document [Xerox]
Typed transcription of a letter written by Lorena Brown to her aunt, Lucinda Dunham Powell. The letter, dated 28 March 1863, describes the Brown family's journey from the Kanawha Valley to Monroe County.
Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview
Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers Regarding General Joseph A.J. Lightburn and Other Material
Materials collected by Roy Bird Cook regarding General Joseph Andrew Jackson Lightburn. Includes letters sent to Dr. Bird regarding General Lightburn and the Lightburn family, newspaper clippings regarding Lightburn and the Civil War in West Virginia, two maps, a pamphlet, and other material. See the "Historical Note" for further information about General Lightburn.
Roy Bird Cook, Collector, Papers regarding the Civil War in Southern West Virginia
William B. Maxwell, Historical Narratives Regarding James Craik and Kanawha Valley Lands of George Washington
William D. Wintz, Collector, Papers
A survey for a plot of land in Greenbrier County dated 1789, a map showing coalfields in the Kanawha Valley dated 1867, genealogies of the Chapman and McGlathlen families, and letters from M.M. Neely, Arthur Capper, and Walter F. George.
William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), Governor, Papers
William Haymond (1771-1848), History of the Haymond Family, Typed Document
History of the Haymond family, pioneer residents of the Palatine tract in Marion County, West Virginia. Eight letters written by William Haymond to his nephew Luther Haymond recall frontier life in the Monongahela, Tygart, Ohio, and Kanawha valleys, 1780-1793. Subjects include the settlement of Morgantown, Clarksburg, Williamstown, the Palatine tract, and Coburn's Fort; land surveys in Harrison County; trapping and hunting; road surveying; and Indian warfare.