Aurora (W. Va.)

A 23 page original manuscript on early local history entitled “The Genesis of the Aurora Community,” by Martha Luther Peter.

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.

Deed for 800 acres on Foleys Meadows in Monongalia County, to Thomas James Goff, June 25 1787; tax receipts of 1829 and 1843 for Thomas and James S. Watson; a bill of goods of Stephens, Miller & Co., Baltimore, 3 May 1865, to Messrs. Wotring Co., Aurora, W.Va.; a manuscript plat for unidentified land.

Six loose manuscript pages containing lists of communicants, persons confirmed, members of Sunday School and Bible classes, and officers and teachers of St. Paul's original record books of the Church, Aurora, W. Va. These pages were in the original record books of the Church, but were not photostated in 1950 when the books were. For additional information, see also Collection No. 192.