Limestone Quarries

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Limestone Quarries

This topic appears in 152 indexed records between 1832 and 1960.
152 Indexed Records
1832 Earliest Record
1960 Latest Record
Bakerton Strongest Location
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January 15, 2025

Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.

Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Jan. 17.– Reports reach here of smallpox in the county, in the suburbs of Charlestown and at Bakerton, confined to the colored people. Raleigh Hauser [Houser], general manager […]
July 20, 2018

Interests in Flanagan Quarry Sold To Washington Building Lime

James Flanagan, Mrs. Alice Lee Hopper, Mrs. Laura F. Moler, and Mrs. Mary C. Licklider have sold their interests in the Flanagan limestone quarries near Bakerton to the Washington Building Lime Company.
December 16, 2025

Standard Lime & Stone Receipt; W.L. Gross.

Buckeystown Office of The Standard Lime & Stone Co.Office at Equitable Building, Baltimore, Md. Telegraph Office, Frederick, Md.Telephone Connections Buckeystown, Frederick County, Md. July 6-1912 Mr. W. L. GrossBrunswick, Md. Dear SirWe thank you very much […]
July 20, 2018

Another Fraud Exposed: Potomac Refining Company

Another Fraud Exposed. The Potomac Refining Company, a concern which has been pecking around an old abandoned limestone quarry on the Maryland side of the Potomac river between Shepherdstown and Harper’s Ferry, has been proclaimed a […]
July 19, 2018

To Rebuild Lime Plant

To Rebuild Lime Plant. That portion of the plant of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton which was destroyed by fire last week is to be immediately rebuilt. The sheds and fixtures of twelve of […]
May 1, 2024

Big Fire At Bakerton Causes Loss of $15k

BIG FIRE AT BAKERTON CAUSES LOSS OF $15,000Sheds Around Twelve Big Limekilns of Standard Lime and Stone Co. Consumed Tuesday Night. Fire broke out between 2 and 3 o’clock Tuesday night at the plant of the […]
October 9, 2024

$20k Fire In Bakerton

$20,000 FIRE IN BAKERTONPlant of Washington Building And Lime Company Destroyed. Charlestown, Va., Oct. 11.– The plant of the Washington Building and Lime Company, located at Bakerton, Jefferson county, was destroyed by fire early this morning, […]
August 4, 2024

Charley Hammond Serious Head Wound

Charley Hammond, of Antietam, and who is employed at the Bakerton lime quarries, was struck on the head with a falling stone, making a very wound and quite a loss of blood. Dr. E. M. Garrott […]
May 22, 2020

A Pleasant Day in the Country (Bakerton).

In company with Prof. Thos. C. Miller and Prof. and Mrs. Walter M. Duke, the editor of the Register spent a very pleasant day last Saturday in the Bakerton neighborhood. A good country dinner was enjoyed […]
July 19, 2018

Flanagan accepts position at Riverton

Mr. Walter Flanagan, formerly of Bakerton, this county, who has been employed in Baltimore for some months past, has taken a position with the Standard Stone and Lime Company at Riverton, Va.
May 1, 2024

Fire at Washington Building Lime Barn, Loss.

Fire At Bakerton. A barn owned by the Washington Building Lime Company, at Bakerton, was destroyed by fire Saturday together with the contents, including two horses. Loss is about $1,000 covered by insurance.
May 1, 2024

Arthur Moler, Quarry Boss, Dies Suddenly

Quarry Boss Died at Bakerton. Dies Suddenly From Heart Trouble. Arthur Moler, aged fifty years, a foreman in the Bakerton quarry, died suddenly at his home in Bakerton. He retired in his usual health, when about […]
December 20, 2025

Parrott, Found Guilty of Concealing Stolen Copper/Brass

Curtis Parrott, the young negro previously found guilty of concealing a quantity of brass and copper stolen from the Washington Building Lime Company was sentenced to four months in jail and to pay the cost of […]
October 9, 2024

Quarry Officials Deny Coercion

Officials of the Washington Building Lime Company deny that their company has attempted to induce its workmen to vote for the Republican ticket this fall by threatening to discontinue the quarries and lime kilns in the […]
December 20, 2025

Alleged R.R. Discrimination Against Washington Building Lime & Standard Lime.

SUIT AGAINST THE RAILROADS.C. V. R. R. and Others Alleged to Discriminate Against the Standard Lime & Stone Co. The Standard Lime & Stone Co. and the Washington Building Lime Co., operating quarries near Martinsburg, both […]
October 8, 2024

C. V. in Antidiscriminative Suit for Stone

Standard Stone & Lime Co. Claim Discrimination Against Them. The Standard Lime & Stone Co. and the Washington Building Lime Co. operating near Martinsburg, both of which operations have offices in Baltimore, have filed a complaint […]
July 19, 2018

Limeworks Wages Reduced

The wages of the men employed at the limestone works at Bakerton and Millville, this county, have been considerably reduced.
December 21, 2025

Assessment of Railroad Property in Jefferson County

On Wednesday Judge Faulkner decided the assessment made by the Board of Public Works on the property in Jefferson county of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Winchester and Potomac and the Baker branch, the latter […]
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1890s 50 records
1910s 42 records
1900s 28 records
1930s 10 records
1920s 9 records
1850s 3 records