Limestone Quarries

January 15, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 15, 2025
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Giffin, Electrocuted At Bakerton Plant

Electrocuted At Plant.Hagerstown, Aug. 5. — Elmer Giffin, 27, of Samples Manor, Md., was electrocuted today when a switch at the Washington Building and Lime Company, at Bakerton, W. Va., where he was working, was accidentally […]
KailaKaila August 6, 1932
January 15, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 15, 2025
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New Concern Takes Over Plant

OLD STONE CO. SELLS OUT.New Concern Takes Over Plant At Bakerton, W. Va.Charles Town, W. Va., May 20.– The Harpers Ferry Stone and Lime Company, who have been operating a plant at Millville, near this town, […]
KailaKaila May 21, 1918
January 15, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 15, 2025
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Hetzel Injured by Premature Blast

ELEVEN BLASTS AROUND HIM.Quarry Foreman Feels As Though Barrage Had Hit Him. Winchester, Va., Nov. 25.– Howard Hetzel, a foreman at the Bakerton (W. Va.) stone quarries, feels confident he could withstand a German barrage fire […]
KailaKaila November 26, 1917
January 15, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 15, 2025
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Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.

Smallpox At Bakerton, W. Va.Harpers Ferry, W. Va., Jan. 17.– Reports reach here of smallpox in the county, in the suburbs of Charlestown and at Bakerton, confined to the colored people. Raleigh Hauser [Houser], general manager […]
KailaKaila January 18, 1913
January 12, 2025
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Published by Kaila on January 12, 2025
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West Virginians [Jefferson Co.] Report a Year of Much Prosperity

FARMERS FARED WELL.West Virginians Report A Year of Much Prosperity.MOST ABUNDANT APPLE CROP.Lands Held Their Own In Price And Farmers Had Little Difficulty In Getting Loans At 6 Per Cent. [Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun.]CHARLESTOWN, […]
KailaKaila January 1, 1900
October 9, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 9, 2024
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$20k Fire In Bakerton

$20,000 FIRE IN BAKERTONPlant of Washington Building And Lime Company Destroyed. Charlestown, Va., Oct. 11.– The plant of the Washington Building and Lime Company, located at Bakerton, Jefferson county, was destroyed by fire early this morning, […]
KailaKaila October 12, 1911
October 9, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 9, 2024
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Quarry Officials Deny Coercion

Officials of the Washington Building Lime Company deny that their company has attempted to induce its workmen to vote for the Republican ticket this fall by threatening to discontinue the quarries and lime kilns in the […]
KailaKaila October 15, 1908
October 8, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 8, 2024
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C. V. in Antidiscriminative Suit for Stone

Standard Stone & Lime Co. Claim Discrimination Against Them. The Standard Lime & Stone Co. and the Washington Building Lime Co. operating near Martinsburg, both of which operations have offices in Baltimore, have filed a complaint […]
KailaKaila July 29, 1908
October 8, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 8, 2024
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Notes from Bakerton

Bakerton Notes. The Washington Building Lime Co. are still making improvements at this place to supply their growing trade. At present they are building a large cooper shop in addition to the one they now have, […]
KailaKaila June 5, 1902
October 8, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 8, 2024
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Daniels sells to Washington Building Lime Co.

Farm Sales.Dennis M. Daniels has sold his farm of 120 acres at Bakerton, this county, to the Washington Building and Lime Company for $10,000. The extensive works of the lime company adjoin the farm of Mr. […]
KailaKaila January 10, 1901
October 8, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 8, 2024
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New Quarries; Peacher’s Mill

New Quarries Opened.The Washington Building Lime Company, which has such extensive quarries and kilns at Bakerton, this county, has just opened another limestone quarry at Pitchers [Peacher’s] Mill, on the B. & O. Railroad, a short […]
KailaKaila August 17, 1899
October 8, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 8, 2024
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Kiln Collapse, Damages.

During the past winter four new lime-kilns were put up as an addition to the extensive works of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton, this county. One day last week the kilns collapsed just as […]
KailaKaila March 23, 1899
October 8, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 8, 2024
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Fire at Bakerton: Kilns and Freight Cars Destroyed

FIRE AT BAKERTONLime Kilns and Freight Cars Destroyed. The valuable lime kilns of the Washington Building Lime Company at Bakerton, near Martinsburg, W. Va. were destroyed by fire at 4 o’clock yesterday morning, entailing a loss […]
KailaKaila July 27, 1891
October 8, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 8, 2024
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Washington Building Lime Chartered

The Washington Building Lime company, of Molar P. O., Jefferson county, has also been chartered. Its charter is to expire on September 1, 1939. Its capital stock is $500, ten per cent. of which has been […]
KailaKaila October 3, 1889
October 6, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 6, 2024
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Geologic Field Conference for Public School Teachers of Morgan, Berkeley, and Jefferson [Excerpt of Bakerton]

Stop 4The limestone and dolomite in this abandoned quarry are probably the same type of rocks that are quarried extensively at Bakerton and Engle and further south at Millville This same formation contains some beds of […]
KailaKaila January 1, 1952
October 6, 2024
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Published by Kaila on October 6, 2024
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1916 WV Geological Survey; Bakerton Quarries

Bakerton Quarries.— Engle Station is located 15 miles east of Martinsburg, in Jefferson County, on the main line of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Bakerton is a small settlement located two miles to the northeast of […]
KailaKaila January 1, 1916
August 14, 2024
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Published by Kaila on August 14, 2024
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Decker, Harpers Ferrian, Liberator, and Patentee.

The Harper’s Ferry correspondent of the Shepherdstown Independent says:“Carl” Decker, the New York Journal Cuban correspondent, and the liberator of Miss Cisneros from the Spanish dungeon, Cuba, is a Harper’s Ferrian by birth and ancestry. His […]
KailaKaila May 10, 1898
August 14, 2024
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Published by Kaila on August 14, 2024
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Works at Bakerton

Passing through the busy little settlement of Bakerton last Thursday, we stopped for a few minutes chat with Mr. D. R. Houser, the efficient superintendent of the outside men engaged upon the works of the Washington […]
KailaKaila October 12, 1897
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