Railroad Items.Mr. Patrick Higgins, of Harper’s Ferry, has purchased for the B. & O. Railroad the twelve large stone houses below Weverton, the property of the Potomac Manufacturing Company. This property embraces the dwellings mentioned and […]
County Court.[…]Permission was given the Washington Building Lime Company, of Bakerton, to lay a tramway across the Harper’s Ferry and Shepherdstown road at Flanagan’s quarry, the company agreeing to protect the county from any damages that […]
[…] By the projected route through Jefferson and Berkeley counties referred to (the original B. & O. survey), the road would not only touch Shepherdstown, where it would be given a hearty welcome, as was given […]
The editor of the REGISTER spent last Friday at the busy village of Bakerton, in this county, where the Standard Stone and Lime Company of Washington, of which the Messrs. Baker are the moving spirits, has […]
William Martin, an employee at the pulp mill west of Harper’s Ferry was struck and killed last Monday night by a B. & O. train. Martin had previously worked at the Virginia ore bank near Bakerton. […]