Antebellum (1800-1860)
Antebellum Education
Academies in West Virginia
Alexander Campbell and Bethany College
Antebellum Industry
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
Early Industry in Kanawha County
Anne Royall's Description of Burning Spring and the Kanawha Valley
Salt
Industry
"A Nineteenth-Century Mill Village: Virginius Island,
1800-1860"
Establishment of the Harpers Ferry Armory
The Kanawha Salt Company
"Booster Ethos: Community, Image and Profit in Early
Clarksburg"
Antebellum Photos and Illustrations
Antebellum Transportation
James Rumsey Demonstrates His Steamboat
"Hugh Paul Taylor: Historian and Mapmaker"
"Mr. Clay at Lewisburg"
Henry Clay's Speech at Lewisburg
Correspondence of Henry Clay
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company
Incorporated
Staunton Convention of 1816
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
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
B & O Railroad Completed to Wheeling
"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"
John George Jackson Escapes a Deadly Fire
Birth of Harman Blennerhassett
"Chronicle of the Life of Harman Blennerhassett"
Sources on Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett
"Ohio River Baroness Returns to Her Early 18th Century
Home"
Sources on Tecumseh
"Famed Tecumseh Was a West Virginian"
Rural Life
"Folk Medicine"
Social and Industrial Life in Early Settlements
"The Cranes of Greenbrier County"
"Dr. Cyrus Alexander Rupert, 1810-1891"
Jefferson County 49ers Prospect for Gold in
California
Incorporation of Wheeling Hospital
"Wheeling's Athenaeum: 1854-1868"
Establishment of Weston State Hospital
A Brief History of African-Americans in West Virginia
Antebellum Slavery
Martinsburg Slave Escapes on the Underground
Railroad
Henry Ruffner's Address to the People of West
Virginia
Death of Henry Ruffner
"The Ruffners: Henry"
Summons for 1857 Court Case, William
Shrewsbury vs. Henry Ruffner (Ms79-83)
"Slavery in Present West Virginia in 1860"
A Timeline of African-American History of West Virginia
African-American Population of Present-Day West Virginia Counties
in
1860
Alexander Campbell Immigrates to America
Sources on Alexander Campbell
"A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ in West Virginia"
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