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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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July 20, 2018
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Items from Bakerton.

Items From Bakerton. I see through your columns news from other places, and I thought that I would give you some from our little town. Bakerton is growing and is now about a mile long. It […]
November 19, 1914
May 2, 2025
May 2, 2025

Smallpox; Bakerton & Jeff. Co.

p. 998-999 West Virginia– Jefferson County and Vicinity. Asst. Surg. Hasseltine, of the Public Health Service, detailed to confer with the Jefferson County (W. Va.) Board of Health concerning the recent occurrence of smallpox in that […]
May 23, 1913
May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

Smallpox Spreads from Bakerton

Smallpox has broken out in the neighborhood of Benonville, Warren county, 15 miles north of Luray. It is supposed the smallpox originated from the return of several men to that community from Bakerton, W. Va., where […]
February 17, 1913
January 12, 2025
January 12, 2025

Bentonville Smallpox Traced to Bakerton

Smallpox has broken out in the neighborhood of Bentonville, Warren county, Va., fifteen miles north of Luray. Several men returned to that community from Bakerton, W. Va., where smallpox has been epidemic.
February 3, 1913
May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

Smallpox outbreak at Bakerton.

It is said that there are ten cases of smallpox among the colored population at Bakerton, Jefferson county.
January 24, 1913
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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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