Chronicling America - The Welsh of Harpers Ferry

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678 Indexed Records Spanning 1730 to 1977

September 10, 1835

10 Sep 1835

Viaduct at Harpers Ferry

A grand piece of workmanship is about to be commenced at Harpers Ferry. Proposals are to be received in a few days for the mason work of the bridge which is to be constructed across the […]

August 20, 1835

20 Aug 1835

Death: Thomas Foley

At Harpers-Ferry, on the 11th inst., Mr. THOMAS FOLEY, in the 81st year of his age.– The deceased was a native of Ireland, but a resident of this country for fifty-one years.– During a long acquaintance […]

August 28, 1834

28 Aug 1834

Ireland, Foreign Affairs

At the latest advices the cholera continued to rage in Dublin with unabated violence, while not only the poor, but persons who have all the good things of this world at their command, are snatched away […]

July 31, 1834

31 Jul 1834

Connelly, killed by lightning.

We understand that a man by the name of Connelly was killed by lightning on Thursday evening last, a few miles below this place on the Canal. — [Williamsport Banner.

January 9, 1834

9 Jan 1834

C&O Canal, Updates

CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANAL.To the Editors of the National Intelligencer. GENTLEMEN:— It may gratify many of your readers, as it certainly will those who are Stockholders in the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, to learn, that […]

August 29, 1833

29 Aug 1833

Two Cholera Cases

HAGERSTOWN, AUG. 22. Our town continues in the enjoyment of an unusual amount of good health. We have had but two cases of Cholera since our last publication— one a laborer from the canal, in the […]

August 29, 1833

29 Aug 1833

Shepherdstown Cholera

No case of cholera has occurred in this town or neighborhood since Monday week, the 12th instant.The following report from the Mayor of Shepherdstown, contains our latest information from that place. TO THE EDITOR OF THE […]

August 22, 1833

22 Aug 1833

Cholera, Ravages Again.

The Cholera.— This desolating scourge, we are sorry to say, appears to be augmenting its ravages in our county. Since our last publication, several valuable citizens of Shepherdstown have fallen victims to the malignant disease. Many […]

August 8, 1833

8 Aug 1833

Wheldon, Cholera or Fable?

[COMMUNICATED.] Mr. Gallaher: — We have observed in the “Intelligencer and Alexandria Gazette,” of this week, a paragraph extracted from the “Argus,” printed in Easton, Pa., detailing a “remarkable circumstance,” based on the high authority of […]

July 11, 1833

11 Jul 1833

Progress of the Cholera

HAGERSTOWN, July 4The cholera is again on the increase along the line of the canal, in the neighborhood of Williamsport. On Tuesday, we learn that three deaths occurred below, six above, and one in the town, […]

July 4, 1833

4 Jul 1833

Cholera on Canal Line

From the Hagerstown Torch Light of Thursday.A few cases of cholera have occurred during the last week, along the line of the canal, above and below Williamsport. We have head of three confirmed cases, which resulted […]

July 4, 1833

4 Jul 1833

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal News

From the Baltimore American, June 14.The Fifth Annual Report of the President and Directors of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, occupies one entire page of the ample sheet of the National Intelligencer of yesterday. It […]

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