Preston County (W. Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 89 Collections and/or Records:
Records and Manuscript regarding Early History of Aurora, West Virginia
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0906
Scope and Contents
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.
Dates:
1787-1865
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0821
Scope and Contents
This collection includes manuscripts, printed and newspaper materials collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. This collection includes papers concerning many phases of West Virginia History, although centered on Preston, Taylor, and Monongalia counties. Includes marriage licenses from Preston County, 1881-1947; newspaper clippings from Morgantown newspapers; a meeting invitation from the Monongalia...
Dates:
1880-1947
Rufus A. West, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0576
Scope and Contents
Manuscript and printed material, and pictures collected by Rufus A. West, a Morgantown antiquarian and faculty member of the College of Engineering, West Virginia University. There are also a small number of Mr. West’s personal papers, consisting of letters concerning West Virginia University College of Engineering, Oak Grove Cemetery Association, and the Wesley Methodist Church, all of Morgantown, and business records of the Town Hill Service Station, owned by Mr. West. The...
Dates:
1774; 1780; 1830-1952
Samuel Hanway Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0570
Overview
Manuscript surveys and plats of land in Monongalia and Preston counties, West Virginia, by Samuel Hanway, county surveyor. There are papers showing acreage and owners; an early plat of Morgantown showing streets, lots and numbers; plat of courses of the Monongalia and Preston County boundary; maps of Monongalia and Preston counties, including a map of eleven tracts of land on Prichard and Whiteday Creek, Monongalia County, which notes the Morgantown-Clarksburg Road, Cratzer's Tavern, and the...
Dates:
1782-ca. 1818
Samuel T. Wiley (1850-1905) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1842
Overview
Letters, notebooks, scrapbooks, diaries, manuscripts, and memorabilia of a secondary schoolteacher in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and Preston County, and an author and local historian of Preston and Monongalia counties in West Virginia. The collection includes notes on history, orthography, new method arithmetic, two teachers report books of 1872-1885 and 1879-1880, teachers' certificates, a Wiley family genealogy, manuscripts on slavery, Odd Fellowship, public schools, after-dinner...
Dates:
1872-1905
Scott Gibson, Photographer, Glass Plate Negatives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4023
Scope and Contents
This collection includes glass plate negatives and film negatives of photographs taken by Scott Gibson of Valley Point, Preston County, West Virginia. These photographs feature a variety of outdoor and indoor scenes, as well as family and individual portraits, mainly in Monongalia and Preston Counties. Original accession (collection circa 1900-1920, undated) includes over 1,500 glass plate negatives. Subjects of the photographs include portraits of individuals (including infants...
Dates:
circa 1880-1960 and undated
Shahan Family, Photographs of Richard and Harry Shahan of Preston County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3842
Overview
Two large oval portrait photographs, one of Richard Shahan (1841-1906) and the other of his son Harry Shahan (1896-1994), both residents of Preston County, West Virginia. Biographical data regarding both men has been attached to the backs of the photographs, including information regarding their service in the Civil War and World War I respectively. These portraits may be examples of a type of photograph known as a "crayon enlargement", a photographic print that has been enhanced with...
Dates:
ca. 1890-1918
Surveyor's Field Book of Preston County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0429
Overview
Surveyor's field notes from Preston County, [West] Virginia in May 1848; bears name of I.A. Dalrymple. See also A&M 279.
Dates:
1848
Surveyor's Field Book, Preston County
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0279
Overview
Notes of surveys run in Preston County, [West] Virginia between October 16 and November 29, 1848, along Cheat River, Pringles Run, Raccoon Run, Sandy Creek, Knott's Summit, and Brushy Fork. Bears Name of I.A. Dalrymple. See also A&M 429.
Dates:
1848
Thomas Trickett Land Grant and Tax Receipt
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2039
Overview
A land grant signed by the Governor of Virginia, Joseph Johnson in 1853 granting 47 acres in Preston County to Thomas Trickett. Also an 1858 Preston County tax receipt for Thomas Trickett with assessments for personal and real property.
Dates:
1853, 1858