Morgan County - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

6 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977 Database Info

January 3, 1893

3 Jan 1893

Jones, Contract with Baker & Bro.

Our enterprising young countyman Mr. Chas. E. Jones has purchased eight hundred acres of land in Morgan county, opposite Hancock. One hundred and fifty acres of it is good river bottom, and the remainder in timber, […]

May 19, 1883

19 May 1883

Dam No. 6 Repair

The canal authorities are about to repair and build higher the dam at No. 6. The old dam leaks badly, and is not high enough to furnish a full head of water when the river is […]

October 11, 1860

11 Oct 1860

Mason – Horrible Murder

HORIRBLE MURDER. One of the most inhuman and shocking murders it has ever fallen to our lot to record, occurred near this place on Wednesday week last. A man by the name of Ezra Mason, a […]

December 23, 1841

23 Dec 1841

Harpers Ferry Temperance Convention

THE HARPERS-FERRY TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.On Wednesday morning, December 1st, 1841, a number of Delegates from the Temperance Societies of Jefferson and Loudoun Counties, assembled in this village, to hold a Convention, previously called by the Total Abstinence […]

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 […]

October 24, 1833

24 Oct 1833

Canal being filled; Coal along the Potomac

ALEXANDRIA, OCT. 14.Whilst we are writing, the waters of the Potomac above Harpers-Ferry are silently flowing into the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. Passing the long contested Point of Rocks into the long finished part to Seneca, […]

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Industrial Laborers

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Philip Coons Accounts

Accounts & Bonds Due To Prominent Harpers Ferry Merchant Philip Coons, Nov. 1855.

Irish-born Residents (1850)

A Listing of All Irish-born Residents of Jefferson County, Virginia in the year 1850.

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Jones, Contract with Baker & Bro.

Dam No. 6 Repair

Mason – Horrible Murder

Harpers Ferry Temperance Convention

Riot Among Irish Laborers

Canal being filled; Coal along the Potomac

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