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...NION OR WHITE CHURrn ® @ @ ® @ ® @) ® @ ® I I / / , , I , I ·/ ··/ GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH MIDDLEWAY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FULL GOSPEL PENTECOSTA L CHURCH TRILUMINAR LODGE NO. 117 (MASONIC) MASONIC CEMETERY UNION CHURCH CEMETERY EPI SCOPAL CHURCH CEMETERY THE OLD ENGLI SH CEMETE...
...rds the middle of the 20th century, it was sold to the Varel Woolen Mills located west of Middleway on Turkey Run. Later this company sold it to Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company which now owns it. M·ollie Pultz, Confederate Spy by Julia Shirley Creamer During the War be...
21 Bird's Eye View of Middleway Thi intriguing panoramic drawing wa executed by Mr. Archie ra.nzen AI utilizing a erie of aerial view taken by photographer d in itzpa trick in the late pring of 1980. hown are the tructure which were pre ent at that time. Tho e which are identifie...
...eriod, and have not reappeared. What happened to these "lost" corporations, Virginius and Middleway? VIRGIN/US "An act establishing the town of Virginius, 1 on lands the property of Lewis Wemwag 2 and others 3 . . . " was legislated by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of ...
...r, includzng the island .of irginius 6 to the beginning. 7 MITH FIELD mithfield no called Middleway wa chartered by the Virginia eneral embl earlier than Virginiu and la ted later. The na tment date a 15 January 1798. Thi wa prior to the legislative f rm tion of Jefferson ount on...
...60 B F 07 B F 32 B F 02 B Frances Reily F40B F06B (Page 998, 16 Aug 1859 Smithfield (now) Middleway District) David Slagle F 60 B John W. Grantham F 18 B F 10 B George H. Beckwith M 40 M F 40 B F 25 M F 10 B John H. She1111an F 14 B James W. Myers F 14 B R. Templeton F 27 B F 14 ...
...ed By Date Established 1. Shepherdstown June 30, 1792 2. Charles Town January 30, 1799 3. Middleway January 11, 1830 4. Leetown October 12, 1831 5. Kabletown January 25, 1833 6. Summit Point September 9, 1836 7. Halltown October 26, 1836 8. Harpers Ferry June 5, 1837 9. Kearneys...
...oric Landmarks Commission, the Jefferson County Black History Preservation Society, Inc., Middleway Historic Conservancy, the Old Opera House, and the cities of Charles Town and Ranson sent representatives to the meeting. As the Jefferson County Commission and the Jefferson Count...
66 The Magazine of the Mr. Watson was born February 23, 1840, on a large farm near Middleway, Jefferson county, in what was then Virginia. Mr. Watson has lived in Parkersburg since 1874, 66 years, and Friday there were many friends and acquaintances from here who were present dur...
...1·t'erso11 ounty. Tudor Hall located in the ~ t1th,, 1e"t r11 part of the count clo~ e to Middleway wa one of the e [3i 111 11nial ar111 . nu111ber of tl1e eleven have ince pa~sed out of· f·1111il)' l1,in ls. but \'C er pri il ged on ugust 6th to have our annual i ·11i , ,it t1d ...
...rd's Town. Bolivar with its growing population of armory workers was next. The village of Middleway was the smallest. 2 The economic engine of Jefferson County, Virginia was agriculture. In 1860 there were 463 farms in this part of the Lower Valley and they included some of the m...
...addler 1 3 Saddletreemaker 1 2 Wheelwright 1 1 Tinker l 1 Stone mason 1 1 Total 31 50 It [Middleway or Smithfield] contains 63 dwelling houses, a Methodist and a Presbyterian house of worship, 2 common schools, 2 taverns, 3 mercantile shops, 2 saddlers, 2 smith shops, 2 boot and ...
...l of war that u tained the Confederate fffi)'· It i doubtful that many attended church in Middleway, Charle town, and t1rn1nit Point on unda)', ugu t 21, 1864. The U11ion Army wa camped about tl1ree mile we t of harle town facing Middle½ 1ay. Initially the center of it li11e ,,,a...
...g the enemy crossed Opequon Creek at different crossings in the vicinity of Smithfield or Middleway, a11d adval'1ced on my positior1 at Welch's Spring, two miles west of CJ1arlestown. ome skirmishing took place on the front of t/1e ixt/1 Corps and ~f General Crooks command during...
...th Harper's or Harpers Ferry, Shepherd's Town (Mecklenburg before 1798) or Shepherdstown, Middleway (old name Smithfield) and some others. It is Charles Town after 1911 because that change was enacted by the United States Post Office. The others are not as precisely dated. For th...
...ystem of government. The eight voting districts were reduced to seven townships: Averill (Middleway), Bolivar, Chapline, Harper,s Ferry, Grant (Charlestown), Osburn (Kabletown), and Shepherd. 17 Bushong. 277.
...illiam M. Drennen, Jr., hepherdstown; Donald E. Watts, harle Town; \ 1illia1n D. happell, Middleway; Jame L. Taylor, Ran on; ric Jenkin , Harper Ferr Enz riti, Officer : Roger J. Perry> John E. tealey III, Hugh Vores \,J ,nb r hip: pen to all ,vho have intere tin the hi tory of J...
...1947. Another Jefferson County daughter, Helen Rebecca Tanquary Smith was born in 1878 in Middleway. She trained as a nurse at a hospital in Wash ington, D. C., and, during World War I, she ''was asked to organize an occupational therapy department at Walter Reed Hospital. She w...
...min Bankhurst, hepherd town; William M. Drennen, Jr., hepherd to,-vn; William D. happell, Middleway; Eric Jenkins, artin burg; Chri tine M. nyder, Ran on Emeritu Officer : Roger J. Perry, John E. tealey III, Hugh Vores Member hip: Open to all \'\Pho have intere t in the hi tory o...
...ered much confu ion and uncertainty. John Smith was the first ettl r at the future ite of Middleway, also called Smithfield. His patent on both ide of the Turkey pring Branch of the Opequon, where he had built a gri t and h mp mill, wa i ued on August 20, 1734. One of the bounds ...
...ord. 108 In due course, on 104 The 1 52 Bro,,,n map of Jefferson ounty how two roads from Middleway cros ing the pequon n ear the ame point, c rre ponding to Hinton Road (Route I/ 11) and the Brucetov.rn Road (Route 1/8). l 05 ee Fairfax unre for Edward Thoma , October 12, 1751; ...
...the Stone House -5 miles Stone House to Jacob Hite's -5 miles Jacob Hite's to Smithfield (Middleway) -4 miles Smithfield to Littler's <<New Design'' - 7 miles Littler's to Winchester -9 miles Winchester to Jost Hite's - 3 miles Total = 33 miles The ''Old Waggon Road'' On April 11...
...rning the enemy crossed Opequon Creek a different points in the vicinity of Smithfield or Middleway and advanced on my position at Welch's Spring, about two miles west of Charlestown. Skirmishing took place during he day in front of both General Crook's command and he Sixth Army ...
...at Charlestown my division was kept employed in picketing and patrolling the Opequon from Middleway to the Berryville and Winchester pike. On the 21st of August the rebels crossed the Opequon in force 25 OR, vol. 43, chap. 55, 424. 26 OR, vol. 43, chap. 55, 440.
J ffer on ount Hi tori al ociet 33 a Middleway, drove in our pickets at that place, and threatened to interpose themselves be ween us and Charlestown. After a sharp fight, in which bo h Chapman and McIntosh gave the enemy a severe check, I received orders from General Sheridan to...
...gadier General MERRITT, Berryville: My outposts on the Winchester and Summit roads and at Middleway have been attacked by strong forces of cavalry. A part of the force between here and the Opequon has taken the road running toward Berryville. There seems to be a strong reconnaiss...
...rs who came through report the direct road already occupied by the enemy, who moved in by Middleway, I have therefore thought it prudent not to leave the direct road to the Berryville and Charlestown pike till I ascertain that I am either not followed or till the direct Charlesto...
...orders. Have parties of observation out in all direc io s, particularly toward Summit and Middleway. Only two of the scouts sent out last nigh have re urned; the substance of their repor has been sen in; those toward Bunker Hill ha e no ye been heard of. Very respectfully, your o...
...e, Clarke August 21, 1864, Engagement, Summit Point, Jefferson August 21, 1864, Skirmish, Middleway, Jefferson August 21, 1864, Engagement, Cameron's Depot, Jefferson 65 64 Patchan, The Last Battle of Winchester, 482-485; (Patchan's estimates are drawn from reports in the OR clos...
...n by Rumsey biographer Ella May Turner 16 and Dr. Robert Lee Bate's offering titled ''The Middleway Blues." 17 Nestled in between an article about fraternal organizations and letters written to Thomas Blackburn Washington was one titled ''Some Old Graves and Graveyards in Jeffers...
... by Bernard R 1 uffin. 22 The last index, Volume X, was a record of the Union Cemetery at Middleway compiled by Dorothea W. Feigley. 23 20 ~Iaglz=i11e o_f t/1e Jeffer 011 Co1,11t; 1 Histor1Lal ocief)'· olume XX\'I> Dec.ember 1960 Page 26-43 . .. 1 "1 omb tone In Lription •• appea...
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