Several new lime kilns are to be built at Bakerton, greatly increasing the large plant of the Washington Building Lime Company and correspondingly adding to the business of that thriving village.
Mr. Rank Garry, who works at the Bakerton lime quarries, had his foot painfully mashed and a bone broken in it last week, and he has to go about on crutches. A horse fell on him.
Mr. William Foreman, who has charge of the Virginia ore bank below Shepherdstown, unearthed the skeleton of a human being some days ago. Men were at work making an excavation in the hillside when they uncovered […]
The Harper’s Ferry correspondent of the Shepherdstown Independent says:“Carl” Decker, the New York Journal Cuban correspondent, and the liberator of Miss Cisneros from the Spanish dungeon, Cuba, is a Harper’s Ferrian by birth and ancestry. His […]
Bakerton is booming. This thriving town, which is located about half way between Shepherdstown and Harper’s Ferry, is the scene of lively operations just now. The Washington Building Lime Company, which has for years had its […]
Passing through the busy little settlement of Bakerton last Thursday, we stopped for a few minutes chat with Mr. D. R. Houser, the efficient superintendent of the outside men engaged upon the works of the Washington […]
The editor of the Shepherdstown Register recently visited the vicinity of Bakerton, and says: Extensive repairs are being made to the old Virginia ore bank property, which has recently been bought by Mr. Edward Mealey, of […]
The REGISTER man took a drive the other evening down to Bakerton by way of Moler’s Cross Roads, and he has thought that what he noticed might not be uninteresting in print. The first impression is […]
The Virginia ore bank near Bakerton started up full blast last Thursday. The property is now owned by Mr. Edward Mealey, of Hagerstown, and it is said that operations will be pushed right along and considerable […]
Messrs. Charles E. Trail and Charles B. Moler are preparing to open an ore bank on property they have leased near Bakerton, adjoining the celebrated Virginia ore bank. They have built a new washer and are […]
Messrs. Charles E. Trail and Charles B. Moler are preparing to open an ore bank on property they have leased near Bakerton, adjoining the celebrated Virginia ore bank. They have built a new washer and are […]
We had the occasion to visit the Bakerton neighborhood last week, and were pleased to find it full of life and energy. The large lime works there were running in full blast, and quite a thriving […]
Mr. J. W. Hoffmaster, this week, removed from the Osborne and Keller fruit farm to Dr. Reichard’s place, and Mr. Hezekiah Best, of near the West Virginia ore bank, has removed to the Osborne and Keller […]
Mr. Fenton Cockerel, of the vicinity of Bolivar, by some means had his clothing caught in the machinery of his brother’s mill at Halltown, and would have been seriously injured if Mr. Johnson had not extracted […]
Mr. William Manuel while standing on the railroad track of the Valley branch in this place on Wednesday evening, was struck by a moving freight and dragged some distance and had his leg crushed.– Drs. Ranson […]
Deed of Trust This Mortgage and Deed of Trust made this twenty third day of July A. D. Eighteen hundred and ninety five between John Hays, of the Borough of Carlisle, County of Cumberland and State […]
