Industry

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Industry

This topic appears in 312 indexed records between 1799 and 1976.
312 Indexed Records
1799 Earliest Record
1976 Latest Record
Bakerton Strongest Location
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December 21, 2025

Lime Company Petitions for Road Change

The Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton petitioned the court for a change in the location of the county road there. The company’s stone quarries at Bakerton have been gradually extended to the county road at […]
December 21, 2025

B. Houser Returns To Bakerton; Clabaugh to Tyrone.

Bryan Houser, who has been employed at Woodville, Ohio, for the past several years, has returned to his home at Bakerton, this county, having been recalled to take a place in the office of the Washington […]
December 21, 2025

Real Estate Transfers; Washington Building Lime Adds Two Parcels

The Washington Building Lime Company has added two small parcels of real estate to its holdings at Bakerton by purchase. One parcel containing one acre was bought of Hattie Moler and others; the other containing about […]
December 21, 2025

Bakerton Methodist Church Sells Church Lot

The State of West Virginia,County of Jefferson, To-wit: In the Clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of said County, August 21, 1916. C. D. Carter and other Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Bakerton, […]
December 21, 2025

Moler Sells 12 Acres to Washington Building Lime

Albert T. Moler has sold twelve acres from his farm at Bakerton to the Washington Building Lime Company on private terms. The land adjoins the big lime buring plant of this company and contains quantities of […]
December 21, 2025

Railroad to Erect Poles from Millville to Bakerton

By far the most interesting part of the day’s proceedings on Monday was the hearing of an application of the Winchester and Washington City Railway Company for a franchise to erect its poles and string its […]
December 21, 2025

Assessment of Railroad Property in Jefferson County

On Wednesday Judge Faulkner decided the assessment made by the Board of Public Works on the property in Jefferson county of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, Winchester and Potomac and the Baker branch, the latter […]
December 21, 2025

Wm. Link, Removing to Martinsburg to Superintend Lime Plant

Mr. Wm. H. Link, of Duffields, who has been a subscriber to the REGISTER for a good many years, called to see us on Monday. Mr. Link expects to move with his family to Martinsburg, where […]
December 21, 2025

New Kilns to Be Built at Bakerton

Several new lime kilns are to be built at Bakerton, greatly increasing the large plant of the Washington Building Lime Company and correspondingly adding to the business of that thriving village.
December 21, 2025

Bakerton Lime Awarded Gold Medal

We are informed by a Bakerton correspondent that the Washington Building Lime Company of Bakerton, this county, received at the World’s Fair the highest award, a gold medal, for the best quality of lime– superior points […]
December 21, 2025

Washington Building Lime Rebuilding

The Washington Building Lime Company are busily engaged in rebuilding their works, recently destroyed by fire, and will be ready to resume manufacturing operations in a very short time.
December 21, 2025

Washington Building Lime Company Chartered

The Secreatary of State has granted a charter to the Washington Building Lime Company, of Moler’s P. O., Jefferson county. Its charter is to expire on Sept. 1, 1939. Its capital stock is $500, ten per […]
December 20, 2025

Labor Strike at Engle/Bakerton Work Slows.

The first labor trouble in three years in this county came Thursday of last week, when the entire quarry force of the Southern Limestone Company at Engle quit work. About fifty men are involved. The strike […]
December 20, 2025

Flanagan Takes Over Bakerton Plant

Walter J. Flanagan, who has been manager for the Standard Lime and Stone Co., at Strasburg, Va., for the past nine years, has taken charge of the plant of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton, […]
December 20, 2025

Magnesia Plant in Operation

Operations have been started at the new magnesia plant at Bakerton. The plant has just been completed by the Washington Building Lime Company.
December 20, 2025

Houser Accepts Timekeeper Position in OH

Mr. W. J. Bryan Houser, of Bakerton, son of Mr. D. R. Houser, has accepted a position as time keeper with the Washington Building Lime Co., at Woodville, Ohio, and is much pleased with that section […]
December 20, 2025

Lime Demands Slow.

Martinsburg.– Slackening in the demand for lime at war time prices has resulted in a serious slow down of work at the Bakerton plant of the Washington Building Lime Co. The latter part of the week […]
December 20, 2025

Bakerton Labs; Destroyed by Fire

Two small buildings housing the laboratories of the Washington Building Lime Co., at Bakerton were destroyed by fire last Saturday morning.
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1890s 83 records
1910s 40 records
1900s 36 records
1850s 20 records
1830s 19 records
1880s 14 records