November 8, 2025
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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 eastern stretch of Jefferson County, WV. Powered by innovation and the hands of immigrant laborers, the mill’s story is one of ambition, hardship, and transformation.
January 15, 2025

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 1, 2024

Young School Teacher Assaulted near Peacher’s Mill

ASSAULTED BY A NEGRO.Young School Teacher in Jefferson County the Victim. Harpers Ferry, W. Va., June 27. A most horrible assault case occurred here this afternoon on the River Road, near Peachers Mill, about two miles […]
December 4, 2019

Molers Crossroads History

Delving into old records of early land grants, you will find that tracts of land were taken up in this section along the Potomac River just as early as those nearer the tiny village of Mecklenburg […]
April 1, 2019

West Virginia & It’s People – Flanagan

FLANAGAN — Among the industrious Irish-American citizens now residing in West Virginia may be named the Flanagan family, which was first represented in America in 1798 in the person of William Flanagan, who became the grandfather […]