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Epidemics

Cholera and other epidemics and health concerns in and around Harpers Ferry and Jefferson County, WV, chronicling the region’s public health history.

This topic appears in 80 indexed records between 1821 and 1919.
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1919 Latest Record
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Smallpox Discovered Among Laborers at Bakerton quarries.

BOYD’S AND VICINITY.Smallpox Discovered Among Laborers at Stone Quarries.Special Correspondence of the Evening Star. BOYD’S, Md. December 1, 1902. […] At the Standard Lime and Stone Company quarries at Bakerton west of Brunswick, there developed a […]
December 2, 1902
May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

Smallpox Spreads from Bakerton

Smallpox has broken out in the neighborhood of Benonville, Warren county, 15 miles north of Luray. It is supposed the smallpox originated from the return of several men to that community from Bakerton, W. Va., where […]
February 17, 1913
May 1, 2024
May 1, 2024

Smallpox outbreak at Bakerton.

It is said that there are ten cases of smallpox among the colored population at Bakerton, Jefferson county.
January 24, 1913
November 7, 2023
November 7, 2023

Obit: John Lamon

On Tuesday last, in the 52d year of his age, of the prevailing epidemic, Mr. JOHN LAMON, of this place. The deceased had been laboring under general debility for some months, but was attending to his […]
September 13, 1832
August 4, 2023
August 4, 2023

Virginia; Cholera Along the Canal

THE CHOLERA A deep feeling of melancholy came over us, a few days ago, as we passed along the turnpike between this place and Harper’s Ferry. In one part of the road, where, six weeks since, […]
November 6, 1832
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This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1830s 34 records
1850s 13 records
1910s 12 records
1820s 6 records
1890s 4 records
1880s 3 records

Frequently Associated Families

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Carroll
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Miller
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Flanagan
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Entler
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Griggs
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Harper
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