Chronicling America - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

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678 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977

January 15, 1881

15 Jan 1881

Big Hogs at Bolivar

BIG HOGS AT BOLIVAR. — One of our patrons and old friends at Bolivar, (we will not mention his name because he is a very modest man, as well as very handsome,) gives us the following […]

June 26, 1880

26 Jun 1880

Death Notice: Daniel Murphy

Mr. Daniel Murphy, whose illness we mentioned in our last issue, died in this place on Thursday last. His remains were taken to Martinsburg for interment in the Catholic cemetery at that place. His age was […]

March 13, 1880

13 Mar 1880

Hotel Arrivals – Entler Hotel & Virginia Hotel

HOTEL ARRIVALS.ENTLER HOTEL — Major Henry Hagan, Proprietor. D. S. Eichelberger, Jr., Geo. Stanley, Martinsburg; R. W. Grove, Noah Myers, Dr. Russell, C. G. Biggs, W. W. Cronise, Sharpsburg; W. C. Hayes, W. H. Kleinsmith, Baltimore; […]

February 28, 1880

28 Feb 1880

Mining Ore in WV

The owner of the furnace at Knoxville, on the Potomac River, is mining ore at his ore-banks in West Virginia, and intends to put the works in full operation early in the Spring. Another sign of […]

October 12, 1878

12 Oct 1878

Rev. J. J. Keane Visits St. Peters

Right Rev. J. J. Keane, the recently consecrated Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia, visited Harper’s Ferry on Tuesday week. In the evening of the same day the St. Peter’s Catholic Church was the scene […]

March 16, 1878

16 Mar 1878

Georgetown lock leak.

The water in the Georgetown level of the C. & O. Canal has been drawn off and will likely be off for a week for the purpose of repairing a leak at the first lock and […]

October 27, 1877

27 Oct 1877

Strider, If Forever, Fare Thee Well

“If Forever, Fare Thee Well.” To gratify a pardonable curiosity on the part of some of our readers, we again refer to “Laborer,” whose vehicle for offensive communications is the Shepherdstown Register, and at the same […]

March 10, 1877

10 Mar 1877

Flanagan & Rhinehart – Jurors

[John Flanagan and Wm. L. Reinhart were drawn to serve as jurors for the County Court.]

March 11, 1876

11 Mar 1876

Narrow Escape at Harper’s Ferry

NARROW ESCAPE AT HARPER’S FERRY.– We clip the following interesting article from an exchange paper:— There was to be a military execution away up above the heads of everybody in Harper’s Ferry, on Bolivar heights, and […]

March 11, 1876

11 Mar 1876

House Committee Reports Against Harpers Ferry Armory Re-Establishment

Harper’s Ferry. — It will be seen, from the following special dispatch to the Baltimore Sea, that the House Committee on Military affairs has reported against the re-establishment of the National Armory at Harper’s Ferry. We […]

October 30, 1875

30 Oct 1875

Marriage: Asbury Hopper & Alice Flanagan

MARRIAGES. On Thursday evening, the 21st inst., by Rev. A. A. P. Neel, Mrs. ASBURY N. HOPPER, of this county, formerly of Rappahannock county, Va., to Miss ALICE L. FLANAGAN, of this county.

December 22, 1874

22 Dec 1874

Harpers Ferry Armory Site Overlooked by Government

The Harper’s Ferry Armory. In the Report of the Chief of Ordnance we find a recommendation that a grand Arsenal be established in New York for the fabrication of arms, the Chief of Ordnance assuming that […]

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