LAW OFFICES OFRICE, HANNIS & RODGERSTHE OLD NATIONAL BANK BUILDINGMARTINSBURG, W. VA.—-AMHERST 3-3391 & AMHERST 3-3392 LACY I. RICEHERBERT E. HANNISDECATUR H. RODGERS, JR.LACY I. RICE, JR. November 17, 1960. Mr. Martin D. Welsh, Sr.Bakerton, Jefferson […]
Winners in second, third, fourth, and fifth places for Certificates of Achievement in Safety in the nonmetallic-mineral mine group: p. 831948 – Bakerton mine, Bakerton, W. Va., Standard Lime and Stone Co., 120,624 man-hours without a […]
Stop 4The limestone and dolomite in this abandoned quarry are probably the same type of rocks that are quarried extensively at Bakerton and Engle and further south at Millville This same formation contains some beds of […]
[Based on materials by Nellie Hendricks Moler] Delving into old records of early land grants, you will find that tracts of land were taken up in this ection along the Potomac River just as early as […]
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 […]
The Bakerton Safety News Sponsored by The Safety Council, Washington Building Lime Company VOLUME II. BAKERTON, W. VA DECEMBER, 1935 No. 4. [page 1] Superintendent Bakerton Plant Mr. Robert B. Frost, one of the youngest industrial executives […]
Chas. D. Gross Is Victim Of Heart Attack.State Roads Quarry Foreman Drops Dead At Work Tuesday. Stricken with an acute heart attack, Charles D. Gross, 60, foreman of a State Roads Commission corps, dropped dead at […]
COUNTIAN IS FATALLY HURT.Theodore P. Griffin, 28, Killed IN Blast At Lime Plant. Theodore P. Griffin, 28, of Samples Manor, was instantly killed and Daniel Myers and William Johnson, both of Dargan, and Charles Farley of […]
CHARLES TOWN, Aug. 2 (AP).– A dynamite explosion, which witnesses said may have been caused by static electricity, killed one man and injured three others in the quarries of the Washington Building Lime company at Bakerton. […]
A dynamite explosion, which it is said may have been caused by static electricity, killed one man and injured three others in a quarry at Bakerton, W. Va., Monday. The dead man is Thomas P. Griffith, […]
VIRGINIA PLANTS BUSY AS ORDERS INCREASE.Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., June 26. — Industrial plants, including stone quarries around Millville and Bakerton, as well as the paper board mill at Halltown, have orders that […]
Electrocuted At Plant.Hagerstown, Aug. 5. — Elmer Giffin, 27, of Samples Manor, Md., was electrocuted today when a switch at the Washington Building and Lime Company, at Bakerton, W. Va., where he was working, was accidentally […]
Horses Die in Stable FireBAKERTON, W. Va., June 11 (Special).– Fire of undetermined origin early this morning destroyed the stable at the Washington Building Lime and Stone Co. plant here. Four horses, three mules and a […]
Left Leg Broken. Frank Knight, 21, of Gargon [Dargan], near Sharpsburg, who is employed at the Bakerton Cement and Lime Company, Bakerton, W. Va., had his left foot mashed and left leg broken when a hauling […]
DANIEL BAKER, PRESIDENT OF STANDARD LIME AND STONE COMPANY, DIES MONDAY IN BALTIMORE HOME AFTER LONG ILLNESS. Prominent in Business and Church Life of Maryland– Pioneer of Great Quarry Interests In Berkeley County– Identified With Many […]
LARGEST LIMESTONE DEVELOPMENTS IN STATE NEAR HERE. H. O. Harzell Issues Limestone Pamphlet. H. O. Hartzell, manager Commercial Development, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has issued an interesting pamphlet on “Lime, Limestone and Flux” for the Baltimore […]
