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Industry

Explore the industrial history of Jefferson County, WV and the Harpers Ferry area, including quarries, canals, railroads, manufacturers and the working-class labor that sustained the region.

This topic appears in 333 indexed records between 1799 and 1976.
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1799 Earliest Record
1976 Latest Record
Bakerton Strongest Location
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July 25, 2023
July 25, 2023

B&O Radical Changes at Harpers Ferry and More

Important Railroad News.The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company has awarded to Messrs. Jones & Thorne, of Baltimore, the contract for radical changes at Harper’s Ferry. It will use up about $250,000 of the $300,000 appropriated for […]
July 22, 1892
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July 25, 2023

Harpers Ferry Extracts

HARPER’S FERRY.Extracts from a Recent Account by a Reporter for the Baltimore Sun. From all indications, Harper’s Ferry, after lying as dead for twenty-five years, will have its old time prosperity returned to it, and in […]
December 31, 1887
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July 25, 2023

Baltimore County Commissioners visit Lime Quarry

The commissioners of Baltimore county visited the quarries of the Washington Building Lime and Stone Company at Keller, this county, last week, with a view of obtaining the limestone found there for use in piking the […]
February 12, 1892
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July 24, 2023

BAKERTON, W. VA.,December 15, 1891. DEAR EDITOR:– As we have not been represented in your columns for some time, we again beg recognition, as we think we justly deserve. But owing to business matters, your correspondent […]
December 15, 1891
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July 24, 2023

Bakerton rising from ashes.

Bakerton is rising, Phoenix-like, from its ashes, and the extensive lime works there will soon be in full operation again.
November 3, 1891
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1890s 83 records
1910s 40 records
1830s 38 records
1900s 37 records
1850s 20 records
1880s 14 records

Frequently Associated Families

These surnames most commonly appear alongside the topic "Industry" across historical collections.

Moler
27 records
Baker
18 records
Houser
13 records
Flanagan
13 records
Knott
12 records
Engle
10 records
Thropp
10 records
Ahl
9 records
Dunn
7 records
Mealey
7 records
Link
7 records
Strider
7 records
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