Hampshire County - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

5 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977 Database Info

January 1, 1900

1 Jan 1900

West Virginians [Jefferson Co.] Report a Year of Much Prosperity

FARMERS FARED WELL.West Virginians Report A Year of Much Prosperity.MOST ABUNDANT APPLE CROP.Lands Held Their Own In Price And Farmers Had Little Difficulty In Getting Loans At 6 Per Cent. [Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]CHARLESTOWN, […]

October 25, 1894

25 Oct 1894

Democrat Meeting at Bakerton

Soup and Oratory — Arranging to Being out a Full Vote[Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.] CHARLESTOWN, W. VA., Oct. 24.– There was a large gathering of democrats at Bakerton, Jefferson county, five miles north of […]

October 29, 1859

29 Oct 1859

William J. Stabough, arrested.

Arrested. We learn from the Charlestown correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, of the 24th inst., that James Lynch, alias William J. Stabough, (the same man whom some of our citizens attempted to ride on a rail […]

January 16, 1838

16 Jan 1838

Riot Among Irish Laborers

There was a riot among the laborers on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal a short time since. They assembled together to the number of 1000, nearly all of whom were Irish. The paraded through Hampshire and […]

June 23, 1830

23 Jun 1830

Direct Route to Baltimore

The people of Hampshire have long had it in contemplation, to improve the road leading through that county, from the National Road beyond Cumberland, to Smithfield in this county, so as to afford them the means […]