General and Unclassified
Antebellum Photos and Illustrations
Jefferson County 49ers Prospect for Gold in
California (Time Trail)
African Americans and Slavery
A Brief History of African-Americans in West Virginia
A Timeline of African-American History of West Virginia
Antebellum Slavery
Henry Ruffner's Address to the People of West
Virginia
Martinsburg Slave Escapes on the Underground
Railroad (Time Trail)
"Slavery in Present West Virginia in 1860," by Barbara Louise Emmerth (West Virginia History)
African-American Population of Present-Day West Virginia Counties
in 1860
Business and Industry
Antebellum Industry
Early Industry in Kanawha County
Establishment of the Harpers Ferry Armory (Time Trail)
The Kanawha Salt Company (Time Trail)
Anne Royall's Description of Burning Spring and the Kanawha Valley
Salt
Industry
"A Nineteenth-Century Mill Village: Virginius Island,
1800-1860," by Mary Johnson (West Virginia History)
"Booster Ethos: Community, Image and Profit in Early
Clarksburg," by L. Diane Barnes (West Virginia History)
Education
Antebellum Education
Academies in West Virginia
Alexander Campbell and Bethany College (Time Trail)
Exploration and Settlement
Meriwether Lewis to President Thomas Jefferson,
September 8, 1803
Extracts From the Journal of Meriwether
Lewis
"Death of Patrick Gass"
Title Page of the Journal of Patrick Gass
Sources on Patrick Gass
Rural Life
"Folk Medicine," by Peggy S. Fisher (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Social and Industrial Life in Early Settlements
Government and Politics
Staunton Convention of 1816
"Mr. Clay at Lewisburg"
Henry Clay's Speech at Lewisburg
Correspondence of Henry Clay
Description of the 1829-30 Virginia Constitutional
Convention
Delegates to the 1829-30 Virginia Constitutional
Convention
1830 Virginia Constitution
N. B. Madera to Charles S. Morgan, 19
December
1829 (Ms79-1.23-162)
Wheeling Gazette Editorial on the 1830
Virginia Constitution
Compiler Editorial on the 1830 Virginia
Constitution
Town Meeting in Wheeling Regarding the
1829-30
Virginia Constitutional Convention
Construction of the Staunton and Parkersburg
Turnpike (Time Trail)
Institutions
Incorporation of Wheeling Hospital (Time Trail)
"Wheeling's Athenaeum: 1854-1868," by Edward L. Phillips (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Establishment of Weston State Hospital (Time Trail)
Religion
Alexander Campbell Immigrates to America (Time Trail)
Sources on Alexander Campbell
"A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ in West Virginia," by Terrance Hamm (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Transportation
Antebellum Transportation
James Rumsey Demonstrates His Steamboat (Time Trail)
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company Incorporated (Time Trail)
Act Providing For The Construction of the
Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike
Engineer's Report On the Construction of
the
Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike
Completion of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge (Time Trail)
B & O Railroad Completed to Wheeling (Time Trail)
"The Closing of the Track of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad"
"The Approaching Celebration" (B&O Railroad
Opening)
"Celebration of the Opening of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad"
"Celebration of the Opening of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad! - The Reception"
"The Excursion From Baltimore"
Individuals
Birth of Harman Blennerhassett (Time Trail)
"Chronicle of the Life of Harman Blennerhassett," by Micheal Burke (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Sources on Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett
"Ohio River Baroness Returns to Her Early 18th Century
Home"
"The Cranes of Greenbrier County," by Diane Crane Benelli, et al (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
John George Jackson Escapes a Deadly Fire (Time Trail)
Death of Henry Ruffner (Time Trail)
"The Ruffners: Henry"
Summons for 1857 Court Case, William
Shrewsbury vs. Henry Ruffner (Ms79-83)
"Dr. Cyrus Alexander Rupert, 1810-1891" (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
"Hugh Paul Taylor: Historian and Mapmaker," by David Scott Turk (West Virginia History)
Sources on Tecumseh
"Famed Tecumseh Was a West Virginian"
