EvidenceCollection: The Baltimore Sun

August 14, 1850

Spread of The Cholera, Harpers Ferry, Winchester, Charlestown.

SPREAD OF THE CHOLERA.– Harper’s Ferry, Winchester, Charlestown, &c.– We regret to learn that the cholera, which appeared so suddenly and with considerable fatality at Harper’s Ferry, a short time since, not only continues there, but […]
August 20, 1856

James Flanagan; Killed

James Flanigan was killed near Shepherdstown, Va., last week, by a man named Boyer.
August 6, 1932

Giffin, Electrocuted At Bakerton Plant

Electrocuted At Plant.Hagerstown, Aug. 5. — Elmer Giffin, 27, of Samples Manor, Md., was electrocuted today when a switch at the Washington Building and Lime Company, at Bakerton, W. Va., where he was working, was accidentally […]
July 24, 1927

Martin D. Welsh, Largest Eel

Another would-be winner, had we a contest for the largest eel, was sent in by Martin D. Welsh, Bakerton, W. Va., but sad to relate, the Fisherman’s Luck contests do not include a niche in which […]
June 11, 1921

Bakerton Benefits By Errors (Baseball)

Bakerton Benefits By Errors.Combining hits with errors in the fourth inning, Bakerton shut out the Shepherdstown Independents, 5 to 0. Heflebower had one bad inning and Knode, who relieved him, allowed but one hit during the […]
May 21, 1918

New Concern Takes Over Plant

OLD STONE CO. SELLS OUT.New Concern Takes Over Plant At Bakerton, W. Va.Charles Town, W. Va., May 20.– The Harpers Ferry Stone and Lime Company, who have been operating a plant at Millville, near this town, […]
January 14, 1916

Maisel–Houser Marriage

Maisel–Houser.Word was received in Catonsville yesterday of the marriage of Milton Maisel, son of the late Frederick Maisel, of Catonsville, to Miss Katherine Moler Houser, daughter of D. R. Houser, of Bakerton, W. Va., which took […]
September 19, 1915

Marriage Announcement: Welsh & Lewis

Hagerstown. — Miss Laura E. Lewis, Snufftown, Frederick county, and Martin D. Welsh, Bakerton, W. Va., were married in Hagerstown Friday by the Rev. Ernest W. Aaron, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, Shenandoah Junction, […]
September 10, 1913

Hendricks to become Manager of Virginia Ore Bank

Charlestown, W. Va.– James K. Hendricks, who has been surveyor of this county since 1897 has tendered his resignation to the County Court. Mr. Hendricks will assume the management of the Virginia Ore Works, at Ferrum, […]
January 18, 1913

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 […]
December 27, 1912

Swomley, Trundle Marriage Announcement

Frederick.– Miss Fannie May Swomley and Mason N. Trundle, of Bakerton, W. Va., were married Tuesday by Rev. E. H. Lamar, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church. They will live at Bakerton.
January 18, 1912

Amanda Rouf, Death

Hagerstown.– Mrs. Amanda Rouf, 32 years old, died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Thomas Delauney, Sharpsburg. She was twice married. Her first husband was killed at a quarry several years ago at Bakerton, W. […]