Brunswick - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

26 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977 Database Info

October 5, 1922

5 Oct 1922

More Bakerton News

Beginning October 8th, revival services will be held each night at the M. E. Church South for a period of two weeks. D. R. Houser is spending his vacation with relatives in Ohio and other points. […]

August 24, 1922

24 Aug 1922

More Bakerton Visitiations; etc.

The M. E. Sunday school picnic will be held at the river, near Mr. “Pet” Moler’s farm, on Saturday, August 26. These guests are spending some time with Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Trundle: Mrs. Sarah […]

October 18, 1917

18 Oct 1917

Price of Lime, Brunswick Business Men Assoc.

THE BUSINESS MEN’S ASSOCIATION, OF BRUNSWICK, MD. WM. L. GROSS,President. G. H. HOGAN,Secretary. Brunswick, Md., October. 18. 17,. 190 Mr. W. S. Adams,Lander, Md. My Dear Mr. Clint:;,I am returning you Mr. Fawleys, check which you […]

November 16, 1906

16 Nov 1906

Charles Gray; Shot.

Shot By Bad Negro. Charles Gray, a well-known Baltimore and Ohio fireman, running on the Millville limestone train was shot and mortally wounded in front of the Baltimore and Ohio station at Weverton late Saturday night, […]

July 1, 1904

1 Jul 1904

Young School Teacher Assaulted near Peacher’s Mill

ASSAULTED BY A NEGRO.Young School Teacher in Jefferson County the Victim. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., June 27. A most horrible assault case occurred here this afternoon on the River Road, near Peachers Mill, about two miles […]

December 2, 1902

2 Dec 1902

Smallpox Discovered Among Laborers at Bakerton quarries.

BOYD’S AND VICINITY.Smallpox Discovered Among Laborers at Stone Quarries.Special Correspondence of the Evening Star. BOYD’S, Md. December 1, 1902. […] At the Standard Lime and Stone Company quarries at Bakerton west of Brunswick, there developed a […]

September 15, 1898

15 Sep 1898

Huggins, McCormick, Kaldenback visit Walsh’s.

Miss Mary Huggins, of Harper’s Ferry, Miss Gussie McCorkmick, of Brunswick, Md., and Miss Mamie Kaldenback, of Washington, D. C., visited Mrs. Thomas B. Walsh at Bakerton the past week. Miss Mamie Kaldenback, of Washington, D. C., […]

January 23, 1896

23 Jan 1896

Nora Moore visits in Brunswick

Mrs. Nora Moore, of Bakerton, and Miss Nannie Moore, of Sample’s Manor, Md., spent several days last week with Mrs. Frank Moore in Brunswick, Md.

October 16, 1895

16 Oct 1895

Brown’s Fort Foundation Being Constructed

Miss Kate Field was in town the first of the week looking after her interests. The foundation for John Brown’s Fort is being made on the Murphy farm near town. The bricks, we learn at this […]

October 20, 1894

20 Oct 1894

Bakerton stone paves streets of Brunswick.

Four carloads of crushed limestone were received today from Bakerton, W. Va., and have been placed on the streets of Brunswick, which were lately graded. The work of street improvement is being pushed rapidly along, and […]

December 14, 1892

14 Dec 1892

Curry; Killed By Train

Benjamin Curry, son-in-law of Mr. Patrick Higgins, of Keep Tryst, Md., who was employed in the B. & O. yards at Brunswick, was killed by a train there Thursday morning. — H. F. Sentinel.

May 15, 1891

15 May 1891

The Doings of the Railroads

Last Saturday night, while every body slept except the railroaders, the little town of Brunswick, which used to be called Berlin, became the end of the first division of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, and the […]

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