Beginning October 8th, revival services will be held each night at the M. E. Church South for a period of two weeks. D. R. Houser is spending his vacation with relatives in Ohio and other points. […]
On Monday morning, October 9th, while Mrs. Dora M. Eaton was preparing breakfast, she was taken suddenly ill and was assisted to bed by her son, where her condition grew rapidly worse until in a very […]
With roots in both the working class and the family that employed them, Martin Welsh built a legacy of his own in Bakerton. More than a century later, his store stands as the last surviving trace of the once-bustling quarry village along the Potomac River. Martin Welsh's life and the store he left behind shines light onto the village of Bakerton, its laboring class, and the deep-rooted connection between industry, family, and faith that defines the district of Harpers Ferry’s history.
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, […]
An Old Ore Bank. Mr. A. G. Lewis, of Sandy Hook, Md., president of the Board of Commissioners for Washington county, is superintending operations at the old Ahl iron mines, several miles from Harper’s Ferry, along […]