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Shepherdstown

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  • Mecklenburg
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EVIDENCE

Historical Records from Shepherdstown

348 records 1807–1977

The Washington Building Lime Company has added two small parcels of real estate to its holdings at Bakerton by purchase.…

Real Estate Transfers; Washington Building Lime Adds Two Parcels

1917
Last Friday a very threatening storm passed over this section, and was the beginning of a series of storms and…

Big Rains and High Water.

1890
Female Education WM M. JONES respectfully informs his friends and the public generally, that he has concluded to open a…

School For Females in Alexandria

1829

George Caton, 12th VA Cavalry Civil War Service Record

1862
Geo. L. Fraley has bought from Jack Hoffman the brick house long known as the Hoffman mill property, on Rattlesnake…

Fraley; Hoffman Mill Purchase

1910
A Wm. B. Welsh is listed as having a letter remaining in the Post Office at Shepherdstown, June 30th, 1850.…

Letters remaining in the post office: William Baker Welsh?

1850
The last enumeration of children between 6 and 16 years of age in Shepherdstown school district, which includes seven sub-districts,…

Enumeration of Shepherdstown School District

1895
General J. D. Imboden, Confederate General, gives a lengthy account of General David Hunter’s incendiarism, while he had command of…

Annals Of The War

1877
Notwithstanding the heavy rain Monday night and the gloomy outlook Tuesday morning, a large crowd of persons assembled at Morgan’s…

Morgan’s Grove Fair

1887
We learn that on Tuesday night last, the Black-smith shop, of Mr. John N. Shell, jr., near town, was entered…

Blacksmith Shop broken into

1859
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Common Topics in Shepherdstown

Subjects most frequently associated with this place in surviving records.

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Obituaries & Deaths 90 Visitations 43 Industry 33 Real Estate 27 Marriages & Wedding Announcements 21 Accidents 19 Agriculture 19 Railroad 17 Canal 16 Epidemics 15
PEOPLE

Families in Shepherdstown

People and surnames most strongly associated with Shepherdstown.

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Common Surnames

Flanagan 91 Moler 68 Caton 67 Welsh 39 Knott 33 Engle 18 Hoffman 18 Licklider 16 Reinhart 16 Hunter 15 Moore 15 Myers 13 Daniels 12 Hopper 12 Link 12
James Alvey Flanagan 1883–1971
John Martin Welsh 1859–1928
George Walter Caton, Sr. 1826–1898
Mary Catherine Welsh 1850–1940
Oscar Strother Flanagan 1892–1973
Margaret Ann Caton 1831–1911
Mary Ellen Flanagan 1851–1899
Burny Reynolds Flanagan 1888–1889

Life Between The Blasts: The Village of Bakerton

Life in Bakerton was lived between the thunder of quarry blasts and the spirit of…

The Welsh & Flanagan Families on The C&O Canal

botelersmill

Boteler’s Mill: Labor & Cement in 19th-Century Jefferson County

In 1827, the steady rush of the Potomac River gave life to Boteler’s Mill. This thriving cement works helped build the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and anchored industry along the…

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