Research Topic

Railroad

This topic appears in 110 indexed records between 1831 and 1946.
110 Indexed Records
1831 Earliest Record
1946 Latest Record
Harpers Ferry Strongest Location
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December 4, 2020

Higgins Purchases Houses Below Weverton

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 […]
May 23, 2020

Washington Lime Lay Tramway

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 […]
May 23, 2020

B&O Projected Route

[…] 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 […]
May 22, 2020

A Visit to Bakerton.

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 […]
May 22, 2020

William Martin, former Ore Bank Employee, Death Notice.

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. […]
Time Periods

Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1890s 25 records
1900s 22 records
1830s 20 records
1880s 10 records
1910s 10 records
1840s 9 records