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Church buildings

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 53 Collections and/or Records:

E. L. Mathers and Max Mathers, Compilers, Monongalia County Scrapbook

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1007
Overview

A scrapbook compiled by E.L. Mathers and Max Mathers, dealing with Morgantown and Monongalia County. There are photographs and newspaper clippings concerning civic, military, and social organizations; taverns and hotels; churches and schools; marriages and deaths; historic houses, early buildings, business places, and river navigation; and biographical sketches.

Dates: 1838-1951

Enoch Rector (1804-1898) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1902
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Enoch Rector, a Baptist minister in Ohio and in Wood and Wirt counties, West Virginia. Subjects include land sales, Western Virginia Education Society, Rector College, family affairs, and Rev. Joshua Bradley's work. There are pamphlets and typescripts on Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Wood County.

Dates: 1824-1853, 1916, 1966

Felix G. Hansford Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1192
Scope and Contents The papers of the President of Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike, charted in 1837, consist of land grants, deeds, and indentures; legal papers; turnpike correspondence, stock, books, contracts, and reports to the Board of Public Works, the Virginia Legislature, and stockholders. Some of the correspondence deals with the Washington Temperance Society, church activities in the Kanawha Valley, the salt industry along the Kanawha Salines, the James River and Kanawha Turnpike...
Dates: 1796-1876

Felix G. Hansford Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1464
Scope and Contents Correspondence, business and legal papers, and Justice of the Peace documents of Felix G. Hansford, Kanawha County J.P., entrepreneur, and President of the Giles, Fayette, and Kanawha Turnpike. Subjects include the George Boxley slave plot, 1816; cholera in Louisville, 1833; Missouri and westward expansion, 1841; the Kansas struggle, 1858; Albert Gallatin's western lands; and the impact of John Brown's 1859 raids on the South. Correspondents include Albert Gallatin, J. M. Maury,...
Dates: 1790-1862

First Christian Church (Connellsville) Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1376
Overview

Record of ministers, members, baptisms, deaths, meetings of the church board, reports of the various church departments, and organizational history.

Dates: 1865-1903

George W. Peterkin, Fund-Raising Letters for Methodist Episcopal Church

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Collection Number: A&M 3013
Overview

An ALS and printed form letter, 1893 January 25, from George W. Peterkin of Parkersburg. Peterkin makes a personal fundraising appeal for the Diocese of West Virginia in order for the Methodist Episcopal Church to expand its programs and pay off debts incurred.

Dates: 1893

Gravely and Moore Studio, Photography Business in Charleston, Negatives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2523
Overview Negatives and other material from the Gravely and Moore Studio of Charleston, West Virginia. The majority of items within the collection are cellulose acetate negatives; the collection also includes glass plate negatives, prints, two photograph albums, and other material, as well as a card catalog documenting business transactions with customers. The collection is organized into customer project files as established by the Studio; the contents of these files are stored in envelopes usually...
Dates: 1860s-1960s; Majority of material found within 1930-1945

Harpers Ferry History

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0374
Overview

A sketch of the town and its geographical setting, copied from a map owned by Mrs. E. Bruce Allen, Moorefield, West Virginia. Included are short notes on the history of the town, description of the rivers, public buildings, school, circulating library, tavern, religious denominations, and nationalities represented among its inhabitants.

Dates: 1821

Hazel Run Baptist Church Ledger

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1778
Overview The Hazel Run Baptist Church minute book with the church's covenant, minutes of meetings and lists of newly baptized members, 1856-74. The Hazel Run Baptist Church later became part of the nearby Hopewell Baptist Church, both located in Preston County. The Hopewell Baptist Church ran Sunday School classes (1883-95) of the combined Baptist and Methodist congregations (the Hopewell Union Church Sunday School) and included are class attendance records. The Hopewell Baptist Church records...
Dates: 1856-1985

Henry Dans Ward Diary

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0441
Overview

A journal kept by Henry Dans Ward while rector of the St. John's and St. Luke's Episcopal churches in Charleston and Malden and as proprietor of a school in New York. From 1843 through 1857 there are notes on churches and social, economic, and political affairs in the Kanawha Valley. Accounts for school and household expenses in New York cover the years, 1858-1862.

Dates: 1843-1862