May 12, 2026

Deed of Trust; Fouke/Coons Harpers Ferry Town

This Indenture, made this 2nd day of May 1844, by and between Gau Wood, William Snook, William Riley, William D. Copeland, Absolem Riley, Armistead Hobbs, Edward Robinson, James Tearney, Michael Coyle, John Cockerel, James Walling, James […]
May 1, 2024

Cox Returns to Bakerton

Mrs. R. G. Cox, the venerable mother of Mrs. Margaret Howard, of Big Springs, has returned to Bakerton, after a visit of some weeks. Mrs. Howard accompanied her to Bakerton for several days.
May 1, 2024

Wm. Huff, Fell From Train

Fell from Train.Wm. Huff,  a young man about twenty-five years of age, residing at Bakerton, Jefferson county, fell from freight train No. 98 about a mile this side of Kearneysville Sunday morning and sustained painful injuries. […]
October 5, 2023

Harpers Ferry & Bolivar Items

On the paling fences vines are still trailing their green length. The cosmos of white and pink blossoms and every variety of dahlia are in many yards. Father Collins, who has returned from Richmond, says the […]
August 3, 2023

Execution of Cox

EXECUTION OF COX– On the 27th. inst. the sentence of the law was executed at Charlestown, Va. upon the Eben’r Cox, convicted of the murder of Col. Dunn, late superintendent of the U. S. Armory at […]