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Bakerton • 1025 Bardane • 2 Bolivar • 120 Charles Town • 187 Duffields • 34 Engle • 56 Halltown • 39 Harpers Ferry • 517 Kabletown • 3 Kearneysville • 24 Leetown • 11 Mannings • 1 Middleway • 12 Millville • 26 Molers Cross Roads • 104 Ranson • 5 Rippon • 3 Shannondale • 4 Shenandoah Junction • 44 Shepherdstown • 348 Summit Point • 5 Uvilla • 36
EVIDENCE

Historical Records from Jefferson County

1951 records 1789–1977

William Flanagan is appointed surveyor of the Warm Spring road from David Moore shop to the Berkly line in the…

Flanagan Appointed Surveyor

1832
COPPER ON THE POTOMAC.– It is stated that the Potomac Copper Company is working some valuable mines on the immediate…

Copper on the Potomac

1853
Thomas B. Welsh, better known to the people of the northern half of the county, as Uncle Tommie, died at…

Obituary: Thomas B. Welsh

1941
Name Oscar Strother Flanagan Home Address Bakerton WVa Age in Years 23 Date of Birth July 20, 1894 Where Born…

WWI Draft: Oscar Strother Flanagan

1918
Mrs. Annie Welsh, an estimable resident of Bakerton, this county, died at her home in that place last Friday night,…

Obit: Annie Murphy Welsh

1922
LIST of the LAND TAX in Jefferson County for the year 1846. Name of Owner Flanagan, William Residence Jefferson Estate,…

Land Book, 1846 – William Flanagan

1846
Charley Hammond, of Antietam, and who is employed at the Bakerton lime quarries, was struck on the head with a…

Charley Hammond Serious Head Wound

1911
Mr. Charles Coleman, of Clarke county, Va., has moved to Mr. John G. Flanagan’s place near Bakerton.

Coleman to Flanagan’s Place

1894
Death of Mr. Jacob Strider.Mr. Jacob Strider departed this life very suddenly last Saturday afternoon, at the residence of his…

Obituary: Jacob Strider

1896
The account given in Thursday’s issue of our paper is mainly correct, as to sales of the Public Property at…

Government Sales, second & third day

1869
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Obituaries & Deaths 355 Industry 255 Real Estate 163 Naturalization 146 Limestone Quarries 146 Visitations 136 Marriages & Wedding Announcements 133 Accidents 133 Crime & Murders 95 Railroad 84
PEOPLE

Families in Jefferson County

People and surnames most strongly associated with Jefferson County.

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Flanagan 468 Welsh 296 Moler 246 Caton 107 Moore 87 Knott 77 Walsh 66 Houser 65 Daniels 60 Engle 58 Hopper 51 Johnson 50 Kidwiler 45 Carter 41 Link 41
Burny Reynolds Flanagan 1888–1889
John Martin Welsh 1859–1928
Annie Gertrude Ingram 1869–1945
James Flanagan 1809–1856
Martin Dineen Welsh 1892–1964
Patrick Henry Welsh 1863–1931
Essie Tamson Manuel 1894–1959
John Doody 1810–1881

St. Peter’s Catholic Church of Harpers Ferry: An Irish Parish on American Soil

Without the Irish, there would be no Catholic congregation in Harpers Ferry. Although St. Peter's…

Identifying the father of Annie G. Murphy

Annie Gertrude Murphy Welsh was born in Maryland in 1840 to Irish immigrant parents. Raised…

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Becoming Bakerton: The First Settlers

Long before the village bore its familiar name, Bakerton’s rolling country and riverbanks were a landscape of both promise and challenge. Fertile fields, mineral-rich limestone, and the Potomac’s steady flow…

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