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Education

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 115 Collections and/or Records:

Monongalia Academy Minute Book

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2971
Overview Minutes of the meetings of the Trustees dealing with raising and disbursing of funds, the establishment of rules and regulations and the hiring of personnel to supervise and to instruct at the Academy. Special mention is made of site location and awarding and payment of contracts for the erection of a new building. The new building was completed in 1831, located at the northeast corner of Spruce and Walnut Streets. Also mentioned are the trustee boards' decisions on acquiring property and...
Dates: 1827-58
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0026
Scope and Contents The collection contains record books and papers covering a period from the formation of the county of Monongalia in 1776 to 1933. The collection is broken prior to 1796. There are approximately six hundred thousand pieces including papers on civil and criminal cases, bonds, deeds, wills, licenses, settlements of public offices, school reports, and other papers commonly filled or recorded at county courthouses in the Virginias.There are two hundred and seventy-five volumes...
Dates: 1774-1933
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Board of Education Minute Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1665
Overview

Minute books contain: lists of students, teachers, trustees, school books; policy discussions and decisions; expenditures and correspondence.

Dates: 1864-1961
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia County Schools Reminiscences

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2744
Overview

Papers which describe the experience of attending one room school houses in Monongalia County. Includes personal recollections by the pupils. See inventory folder for a complete listing of schools, dates, and districts.

Dates: 1840-1966
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia Historical Society Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1310
Scope and Contents

Minute book includes a record of the organization of the society and the constitution and the by-laws. Included with the volume is a typescript entitled: “Spots in Monongalia County School History (1837-1847).”

Dates: 1924-1949
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monongalia Historical Society Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0722
Scope and Contents Records regarding the history of Monongalia County, West Virginia.Boxes 1-14 contain: clippings and miscellaneous printed materials relating to Monongalia county history; genealogical compilations and correspondence relating to the genealogy of Monongalia county families, prepared by Thomas Ray Dille; business correspondence of the society, 1924-1927; correspondence and records of the West Virginia Historical Society, ca. 1925-1931; miscellaneous court records, family letters and...
Dates: 1827-1935; Majority of material found within 1925-1935
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Monroe County Schools, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0123
Scope and Contents Records of Monroe County public schools, including a printed circular relating to the allocation of revenues of the Literary Fund under the Act of Assembly of 21 February 1818; manuscript financial reports, receipts, orders for tuition and teachers' salaries, attendance and progress reports, lists of books and supplies, reports on the number of schools in operation, and other records.Microfilm for this collection is available, including:Reel 1. 1818-1843...
Dates: 1818-1863
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Glenn V. Longacre, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0736
Overview Photostats of deeds, surveys, plats, and grants, the latter signed by Thomas M. Randolph, David Campbell, and William Smith, governors of Virginia, in 1820, 1838, and 1847, for land in Harrison and Doddridge counties; a school attendance sheet for 1865; and a report to the board of education of the number of school-age children in District 4 of Doddridge County in 1869. Also included are a number of photographs taken around Webster Springs showing the hotel, a subscription school, and public...
Dates: 1814-1915
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Mary Woodson, Collector, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2211
Overview

Receipts for land, school, personal property, and road taxes in Kanawha and Putnam counties, 1863-1886 and 1898-1899; grade reports from the Wesleyan Female Institute, Staunton, Virginia, 1882, and from the Putnam County schools, 1904-1906; a printed souvenir list of the students and teacher at the intermediate school, Poca; two manuscript poems concerning the medical profession, 1879-1880; and other items. Index and table of contents are available in the 17th volume.

Dates: 1863-1906
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mrs. Raymond Cook, Collector, Hampshire County Historical Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2338
Overview

School lists for Springfield and Duck Lick, Hampshire County, 1906 and 1907; hand-written Act of the West Virginia Legislature creating a School for the Deaf and Blind at Romney, 1871; and an agreement between George Deaver and John Eaton relating to the sale of a tract of land in Hampshire County, 1887.

Dates: 1871, 1887, 1906, 1907
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center