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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
October 23, 2025

Naturalization: John Morgan

John Morgan, a native of Ireland, this day applied to the Court to be admitted a citizen of the United States, and it appearing to the Court that more than two years ago, to wit: at […]
October 19, 2025

Marriages: Barrett & Lay, Schley & Towner, Windham & Hess.

MARRIED.At Shepherdstown, on the 14th instant, by the Rev. Alexander Jones, JOHN E. SCHLEY, Esq. of Frederick City, Md., to Miss ANN F. TOWNER, daughter of Benjamin T. Towner, Esq. of the former place. On Sunday […]