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Preston County (W. Va.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Preston County Court Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2578
Overview

The court record volumes of Preston County consisting of tax lists of both land and personal property, justice dockets, and circuit court records. There are alien declaration books and voting lists. There are also some private account books notably of a dry goods store, Parks & McGrew.

Dates: 1872-1935

Preston County Court Records, Personal Property and Land Tax Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0214
Overview

Archives of Preston County Court, mainly personal property and land tax books.

Dates: 1818-1942

Preston County Miscellaneous Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0607
Scope and Contents

Papers relating to an electric power line franchise application by the West Virginia Public Service Company to the town of Bruceton, 1930; copy of an agreement between R. B. Waddel and George H. Nieman on the use of a farm, March 17, 1900; a note dated April 26, 1918, given by the Bruceton Bank in favor of A. J. Chorpening and M. F. Chorpenning; mimeographed map of Cooper's Rock State Forest showing roads and refuge areas.

Dates: 1900-1930

Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Cemetery Readings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2395
Scope and Contents

Xerox copies of cemetery readings for Preston County, including the following cemeteries: Salt Lick, Pine Run, Pine Grove Church, Wesley Chapel Church, and Beatty Church.

Dates: 1820-1962

Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Cemetery Readings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1939
Scope and Contents

Cemetery readings for Freeland Cemetery and directions on how to reach cemetery.

Dates: August 1996

Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Civil War Unit Roster

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2110
Scope and Contents

One colored, engraved and printed roster for the Civil War unit, Co. E. 15th West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Most members of the company were from Reno District, Preston County. Commander of the company was Captain Washington M. Paul.

Dates: 1863

Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Historical Narrative regarding County and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0950
Scope and Contents

Papers on the history and description of Preston County; and ten loose pages of manuscript maps and notes on the county. Covers the period circa 1775-1875. Written by S. Scott Garner, father-in-law of Mr. Victor Hoffman, according to a postal note, 1957 March 29 from Mr. Hoffman.

Dates: undated

Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Land Grant

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0892
Scope and Contents

A land grant signed by Wyndham Robertson, Esq; Lt. Gov. of Virginia, granting land in Preston County to Abraham Listons, Mar 17, 1835 ; and a bound manuscript workbook containing mathematical exercises in reduction of vulgar (improper) fractions, ca. 1840

Dates: 1835-1840

Preston County Miscellaneous Papers, Political Papers, and Other Material

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0996
Scope and Contents

Petition, resolutions, memos, clippings, and advertisements concerning change in state constitution, Democratic Party in Preston County, Polk-Clay election, Congressional election ca. 1862, and American Arm & Leg Company.

Dates: 1842-1871

Preston County Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0956
Overview Papers from the Leroy Bucklew Museum in the Preston County, West Virginia, courthouse. The collection includes early papers relating to land, court cases, mills and furnaces, post offices, inns, mineral development, Morgantown and Kingwood Railroad Company, roads, the Virginia-Maryland boundary, and estate settlements. There are photographs of Preston County and Kingwood, and maps of Kingwood, Bruceton Mills, Rowlesburg, Manheim, and of Berkeley Springs, Morgan County. Also includes...
Dates: 1775-1918