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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December 21, 2025

Wm. Link, Removing to Martinsburg to Superintend Lime Plant

Mr. Wm. H. Link, of Duffields, who has been a subscriber to the REGISTER for a good many years, called to see us on Monday. Mr. Link expects to move with his family to Martinsburg, where […]
December 17, 2025

Washington Building Lime Check

667.38April 6, 1905At SightPay to the order of Citizens Nat. Bank Frederick Six hundred and sixty seven 38/100 Dollars Value received and charge to account of The Washington Building Lime CompanyJ H Baker, Treasurer To N. […]
May 1, 2024

New Iron Building Destroyed By Fire

The large iron building owned by the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton, Jefferson county, eight miles east of Charlestown, was destroyed by fire on Sunday afternoon. The fire originated in the boiler room. The building […]
May 1, 2024

Judge sides with Bakerton in Lime-Burning Case

LIME-BURNING CASE. THE JUDGE DECIDES AGAINST ELDRED COMPANY. Important Step Toward Throwing Open to the Kilns the Most Practical and Valuable Process for Burning Lime. Parkersburg, W. Va., – January 3.– One of the most important […]
May 1, 2024

Thomas Delaney, Killed By Falling Rock at Bakerton

KILLED BY FALLING ROCK.Thomas Delany Meets a Tragic Death at Bakerton. While at work at the Bakerton stone quarry, on the West Virginia side of the Potomac river, about eight miles below Sharpsburg, Thomas Delaney, a […]
May 1, 2024

Delaney, Marine, Crushed to Death in Quarry

MAN INSTANTLY KILLED.Former U. S. Marine Crushed to Death in a Quarry.Special Dispatch to The Evening Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., December 13.– Thomas Delaney, who was formerly in the United States marine service, was instantly killed shortly […]
April 25, 2026

Raymond Hoffman; Distressing Accident

Distressing Accident at Bakerton.A very unfortunate accident occurred at Bakerton last Sunday afternoon, the victim of which was Raymond Hoffman, about thirteen years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hoffman. Young Hoffman and another boy […]
May 22, 2020

A Visit to Bakerton.

The editor of the REGISTER spent last Friday at the busy village of Bakerton, in this county, where the Standard Stone and Lime Company of Washington, of which the Messrs. Baker are the moving spirits, has […]
October 8, 2024

Notes from Bakerton

Bakerton Notes. The Washington Building Lime Co. are still making improvements at this place to supply their growing trade. At present they are building a large cooper shop in addition to the one they now have, […]
June 22, 2018

Millard Returns To Oversee Millville Quarries

Michael Millard, who has been operating limestone quarries at Lebanon, Pa., has returned to this county and has taken charge of the quarries at Millville.
August 4, 2024

John Welsh, Sells Home to Washington Building Lime

John M. Welsh, of Bakerton, has sold his dwelling-house in that place to the Washington Building Lime Company, whose quarries have gotten so close to the property as to make it a rather uncomfortable place in […]
May 9, 2018

Deed: Clara Welsh to Washington Building & Lime

Clara Welsh and husband. To: Deed of B.&.S. Washington Building Lime Company This Deed made this 13th. day of May in the year nineteen hundred and one (1901) between Clara Welsh and John M. Welsh, her […]
May 8, 2018

Flanagan Quarry to Washington Building & Lime Company

Cora V. Moler and others To: Deed of B.&.S. Washington Building and Lime Company. This Deed this 31st. day of January 1901, between Cora V. Moler and Adam Moler her husband, Marth R. Link and William […]
October 8, 2024

Daniels sells to Washington Building Lime Co.

Farm Sales.Dennis M. Daniels has sold his farm of 120 acres at Bakerton, this county, to the Washington Building and Lime Company for $10,000. The extensive works of the lime company adjoin the farm of Mr. […]
June 22, 2018

Improvements At Bakerton

Improvements at Bakerton. That busy part of Jefferson county the center of which is Bakerton is to enjoy a still further boom in business. The improvements at the Virginia ore bank, which have been in the […]
May 1, 2024

Bakerton Lime Works to be Enlarged

The Bakerton lime works will be enlarged by the addition of four new kilns, which will be constructed this winter.
June 22, 2018

Strike at Bakerton

The workmen at the Bakerton quarries went on strike last week for a day of ten hours at the same price they had been getting for ten and a-half hours. The management cheerfully granted the request […]
May 1, 2024

T. J. Clarke, moves from Bakerton to Martinsburg

Moving.  Mr. T. J. Clarke, of the Baker Bro’s stone quarries, has moved to this city from Bakerton, Jefferson county, and has taken up his residence at 524 West Martin street.
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