Research Topic

Epidemics

Cholera and other epidemics and health concerns in and around Harpers Ferry and Jefferson County, WV, chronicling the region’s public health history.

This topic appears in 80 indexed records between 1821 and 1919.
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1919 Latest Record
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November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025

More About the Old Mill [Cement]

The relating of one interesting event in Shepherdstown’s history calls out another. The recent article in the Register concerning the old mill east of town brought to the remembrance of Mr. Beltzhoover that some years ago […]
September 25, 1919
July 31, 2018
July 31, 2018

Hog Cholera Havoc in Jefferson County

The hog cholera is still playing havoc in various sections of the county. There have been serious losses in Shepherdstown and vicinity, and scores of fine porkers have died in the Bakerton neighborhood. The disease has […]
September 4, 1919
July 31, 2018
July 31, 2018

Physicians Sick; Unable To Care For Patients

Dr. S. T. Knott, of the vicinity of Molers’ Cross Roads’ has been sick in bed the past week and was unable to answer the many calls for his services. Dr. C. C. Johnson and his […]
October 24, 1918
June 26, 2025
June 26, 2025

Influenza Has Struck Bakerton

The influenza has struck Bakerton and work at the lime plant there has been considerably interfered with on account of so much sickness among the employees and their families. There has been one death from the […]
October 17, 1918
July 20, 2018
July 20, 2018

Bakerton Scarlet Fever Scare; Kretzer boy dies.

A six-year-old son of George Kretzer, living at Flanagan’s wharf, near Bakerton, died last Monday after a brief illness from malignant scarlet fever, and was buried on Tuesday. It is said that scarlet fever exists in […]
July 15, 1915
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1830s 34 records
1850s 13 records
1910s 12 records
1820s 6 records
1890s 4 records
1880s 3 records

Frequently Associated Families

These surnames most commonly appear alongside the topic "Epidemics" across historical collections.

Carroll
3 records
Moler
3 records
Houser
3 records
Miller
3 records
Flanagan
3 records
Bennett
2 records
Entler
2 records
Griggs
2 records
Harper
2 records
Markle
2 records
Shutt
2 records
Turner
2 records
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