Evidence

January 10, 1955

Request for Reference; Ralph M. Parsons Company

The Ralph M. Parsons CompanyEngineers – Constructors617 SOUTH OLIVE STREET LOS ANGELES 14, CALIFORNIA January 10, 1955 Mr. Martin WelshBakertonWest Virginia Dear Mr. Welsh: Mr. Charles R. Rinaldi has made application for employment with our Company […]
August 4, 1939

Rain Mars Picnic Sat’y At Bakerton

Rain Mars Picnic Sat’y At Bakerton. Fine Dinner Enjoyed By Guests; Many Officials Present. The Bakerton plant of the Standard Lime and Stone Company held its annual picnic at Duke’s Woods Saturday, activities getting under way […]
January 1, 1934

Molers Crossroads History

Delving into old records of early land grants, you will find that tracts of land were taken up in this section along the Potomac River just as early as those nearer the tiny village of Mecklenburg […]
August 11, 1921

Daniel Baker Dead

DANIEL BAKER DEAD.Daniel Baker, of Baltimore, widely known as a churchman, philanthropist and leader in all good works, and a business man of the highest type, died early last Monday morning, following a protracted illness. He […]
October 14, 1911

Big Fire At Bakerton Causes Loss of $15k

BIG FIRE AT BAKERTON CAUSES LOSS OF $15,000Sheds Around Twelve Big Limekilns of Standard Lime and Stone Co. Consumed Tuesday Night. Fire broke out between 2 and 3 o’clock Tuesday night at the plant of the […]
October 12, 1911

$20k Fire In Bakerton

$20,000 FIRE IN BAKERTONPlant of Washington Building And Lime Company Destroyed. Charlestown, Va., Oct. 11.– The plant of the Washington Building and Lime Company, located at Bakerton, Jefferson county, was destroyed by fire early this morning, […]
November 7, 1907

An Honorable Roll (Company F, First VA Cavalry)

An Honorable Roll. Robert L. Billmyer, of this vicinity, has handed us the following list of the surviving members of Company F, First Virginia Cavalry, commanded by the late Captain M. J. Billmyer, and we print […]
January 5, 1905

Judge sides with Bakerton in Lime-Burning Case

LIME-BURNING CASE. THE JUDGE DECIDES AGAINST ELDRED COMPANY. Important Step Toward Throwing Open to the Kilns the Most Practical and Valuable Process for Burning Lime. Parkersburg, W. Va., – January 3.– One of the most important […]
October 29, 1903

A Visit to Bakerton.

The editor of the REGISTER spent last Friday at the busy village of Bakerton, in this county, where the Standard Stone and Lime Company of Washington, of which the Messrs. Baker are the moving spirits, has […]
May 4, 1903

Washington Building Lime Leases Hagerstown Cooperage Stave Mill

Leased Stave Mill.The Washington Building Lime Co., of Frederick county, has leased of the Hagerstown Cooperage Co. the latter’s stave mill at Big Pool, the yards and dwelling and bought the stave-making machinery and stave wood […]
December 2, 1902

Smallpox Discovered Among Laborers at Bakerton quarries.

BOYD’S AND VICINITY.Smallpox Discovered Among Laborers at Stone Quarries.Special Correspondence of the Evening Star. BOYD’S, Md. December 1, 1902. […] At the Standard Lime and Stone Company quarries at Bakerton west of Brunswick, there developed a […]
May 13, 1901

Deed: Clara Welsh to Washington Building & Lime

Clara Welsh and husband. To: Deed of B.&.S. Washington Building Lime Company This Deed made this 13th. day of May in the year nineteen hundred and one (1901) between Clara Welsh and John M. Welsh, her […]
March 31, 1900

T. J. Clarke, moves from Bakerton to Martinsburg

Moving.  Mr. T. J. Clarke, of the Baker Bro’s stone quarries, has moved to this city from Bakerton, Jefferson county, and has taken up his residence at 524 West Martin street.
October 12, 1897

Works at Bakerton

Passing through the busy little settlement of Bakerton last Thursday, we stopped for a few minutes chat with Mr. D. R. Houser, the efficient superintendent of the outside men engaged upon the works of the Washington […]
August 12, 1897

An Evening Drive (to Bakerton).

The REGISTER man took a drive the other evening down to Bakerton by way of Moler’s Cross Roads, and he has thought that what he noticed might not be uninteresting in print. The first impression is […]