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Kanawha County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:

John Ewing, Soldier, Civil War Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3777
Overview Letter of John Ewing, Corporal of the 16th Ohio Infantry, to his wife and children, written from the Kanawha Valley in the vicinity of Charleston, (West) Virginia (2 November 1862). Ewing writes that he is in good health and describes recent encounters with Confederate troops. He describes in detail his experience as a Confederate prisoner, including a time he saw a "Company" of Indians with the Confederates. He also remarks on the opinions, mood, and character of the Confederate soldiers he...
Dates: 1862
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kanawha County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0058
Scope and Contents

Typed copy of a court minute book.

Dates: 1825-1831
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kanawha County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0145
Overview

Court case papers, 1779-1933, and county record books, 1806-1927. The bound volumes include private account and minute books of the Coal River and Kanawha Mining and Manufacturing Company (1852-1858) the Winifrede Mining and Manufacturing Company, (1850-1858), the steamboat CROCKETT (1836); a sawmill (1879); and general merchandise and salt accounts, 1822-1823, 1864-1865. A name and subject index to the case papers and a checklist of the bound volumes are available.

Dates: 1779-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kanawha County Book Protest, Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2624
Overview

Articles, broadsides, and other materials concerning selection of textbooks for the public schools of Kanawha County, West Virginia. The controversy involved confrontation between Christian fundamentalists and liberals over educational policy.

Dates: 1975
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kanawha County Court Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2151
Scope and Contents

Transcripts and records of the 1845 Kanawha County court case of Reynolds V. McFarland, Shrewsbury, et. Al. known as the "Salt Case."

Dates: 1845
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kanawha County Land Grants

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0907
Overview

Land grants to John Hansford, Styers Keeney, Michael Keeney, William Keeney, and Jacob Grass.

Dates: 1817-1841
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kanawha County Poll Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0642
Overview

A poll book signed and notarized with the results of a vote in Kanawha County on the 1863 amended state constitution of Virginia.

Dates: 1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Kanawha County Salt Agreement

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2250
Overview An agreement between Kanawha County Salt Manufacturers fixing prices and splitting the market. Parties to the agreement include Andrew Donnally, Lewis F. Donnally, William Donnally, William D. Shrewsberry, Henry H. Wood, John D. Lewis, George H. Warth, Job English, James H. Fry, Henry Chappell, Ira Hurt, Richard A. Hurt, Nathaniel B. Wilson, William C. Brooks, Richard C. Lovell, William McMullen, Lewis Ruffner, James S. Brooks, Franklin Noyes, Samuel A. Miller, E.S. Arnold, William J. Rand,...
Dates: n.d.
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Lewis Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0551
Overview Personal and business papers of the Lewis family, mainly of John D. (1800-1882), Charles C., Sr. (b.1839), and Charles C., Jr. (b.1865), of Kanawha County. For the period 1825-1875 there are papers of various members of the Ruffner, Dickinson, and Wilson families of West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Kansas, Missouri, and other states. The business papers relate to farming operations, the purchase and sale of slaves, salt manufacturing and trade, the Old Sweet Springs Company, coal, iron, oil,...
Dates: 1825-1936
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Luke Wilcox (1795-1854) Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2015
Overview

Diary of Luke Wilcox, a Kanawha County farmer, merchant, salt well and furnace owner and operator, written in memorandum form except for scattered entries giving more information on specific subjects, such as the weather, churches and ministers, farm operation, travel, salt wells and furnaces, slaves, names of personal and business correspondents, coal, and land purchases. There is also an addendum regarding the Wilcox family bible. See "Scope and Contents" for additional information.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1843-1854; 1795-1879
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center