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Country stores.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:

Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1535
Overview

Daybooks and ledgers of a company store operated by the Hope Manufacturing and Coal Company, an early producer of coal and salt in the Mason County, West Virginia, area.

Dates: 1876-1906

Jacob Guseman (1786-1878) Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1196
Overview

Ledgers and daybooks of Jacob Guseman, a Preston County entrepreneur who operated a general merchandise store, a fulling mill, sawmill, gristmill, and other manufactories at Muddy Creek.

Dates: 1836-1866, 1930

J.E. Poling Mercantile Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0823
Overview

Account books, ledgers, cash books, receipt books and the business papers of a large general store in Hendricks.

Dates: 1897-1927

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

Knob Fork General Store Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0811
Overview

A daybook of goods ordered, 1901-1904; and a ledger containing various accounts, 1897-1919, of A. Jolliffe and Son.

Dates: 1897-1919

M.J. Garrison and Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0697
Scope and Contents

A ledger and two cash books for a general store, M.J. Garrison and Company, in Wadestown, W.Va.; also tax receipts, telephone bills, letters, miscellaneous accounts and memoranda of Kate E. Garrison.

Dates: 1868-1922

M.J. Garrison and Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0712
Scope and Contents

Three ledgers for the general store of M.J. Garrison and Company, in Wadestown, W.Va., containing lists of articles, prices and wages.

Dates: 1876-1916

M.J. Garrison and Company Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0734
Scope and Contents Additional business records of the firm operating under the names of M.J. Garrison and Bro., in Wadestown, W.Va., including cash books, bank books and ledgers. Business activities include the operation of a general store; livestock purchase and sale; wool purchase and sale, principally in the capacity of purchasing agent for James Auld and Son; school and county orders cashed for teaching, and building of the Range Bridge. Quarterly post office financial reports; Wadestown Telephone Co.,...
Dates: 1858-1920

Mullen Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1465
Overview Correspondence, bills, receipts, and memoranda books of Gordon, Gordon, Jr., Jacob, George H., and Mrs. F.R. Mullen of Charleston. Subjects include farming operations; the management of a small store in Kanawha County, West Virginia; Barboursville College; and the State Free Silver Headquarters. The collection includes letterheads, business cards, and calendars of Charleston mercantile establishments, ca.1877-1914; and some Ku Klux Klan papers, 1928, of Dr. A.G. Mullen of Galesburg,...
Dates: 1841, 1865-1932

Papers regarding Early Settlers of Aurora in Preston County

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0728
Scope and Contents

Account books, and legal, business, and personal papers of some early settlers at Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia. There are records of a tannery, blacksmith shop, a general merchandise store, and a sawmill, as well as deeds and subscription lists for the Lutheran and German Reformed churches. Also included in the papers are land surveys, wills, deeds, plats, school notebooks, tax receipts, and other items.

Dates: 1788-1943 and undated ; Majority of material found within 1820-1916