December 5, 2025
December 5, 2025

The Old River Road to Shepherdstown

The Old River Road to Shepherdstown.By J. O. Knott The Potomac is one of the most picturesque rivers in the world. When I heard as a child, the words: “Oh Jordan’s stormy banks I stand, and […]
January 27, 1921
November 18, 2025
November 18, 2025

Whig Procession; Revolution

[Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.HARPER’S FERRY, Va., Nov. 1st, 1845. I spoke in my last of the village of Charlestown, lying between this place and Winchester. A curious fact occurred at that place the other […]
November 18, 1844
November 17, 2025
November 17, 2025

More About the Old Mill [Cement]

The relating of one interesting event in Shepherdstown’s history calls out another. The recent article in the Register concerning the old mill east of town brought to the remembrance of Mr. Beltzhoover that some years ago […]
September 25, 1919
November 16, 2025
November 16, 2025

Temperance Movement in Harpers Ferry

Messrs. Editors– It affords me much pleasure to give you and your readers some account of the great and glorious Temperance Reform at Harpers-Ferry, Va., which place has “lang syne,” like too many other towns, stood […]
September 23, 1841
November 16, 2025
November 16, 2025

Harpers Ferry Temperance Convention

THE HARPERS-FERRY TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.On Wednesday morning, December 1st, 1841, a number of Delegates from the Temperance Societies of Jefferson and Loudoun Counties, assembled in this village, to hold a Convention, previously called by the Total Abstinence […]
December 23, 1841
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