Harrison County (W. Va.)
Found in 76 Collections and/or Records:
Watson Family Papers
Watson Family Papers
West Virginia Library Commission, Correspondence and Legislative Material
Correspondence concerning the 1977 proposed merger of the West Virginia Library Commission and the new Department of Culture and History. Also includes bills relating to the creation of the Department of Culture and History and the proposed merger.
West Virginia Library Commission, Letters and Reports
Typescript letter from Dora Ruth Parks, Executive Secretary of the Commission to M.M. Reynolds, Assistant Librarian, WVU; a copy of a letter from Parks to Truman E. Gore, Secretary of the State Office Building Commission; and reports on a survey of Library functions in state government, and functions and requirements of a new state library building.
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.