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Preston County (W. Va.) Court Records and Miscellaneous Papers, 1775/1918 4.15 Linear Feet Summary: 4 ft. 1.75 in. (5 document cases, 5 in. each); (2 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each); (1 Oversized record carton, 17 in.); (1 reel of microfilm, 1.75 in.)

Preston County
Records of the Preston County court, consisting almost entirely of land records such as maps, surveys, plats, deeds, and indentures. There are also some personal papers and correspondence of Preston County residents, including Israel Baldwin and Julius K. Monroe, and the Fairfax family. Some photographs from this collection have been digitized.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rush Meadows Papers, 1901/1967 23.4 Linear Feet 23 ft. 5 in. (52 document cases, 5 in. each); (7 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each)

Meadows, Rush
Papers of Rush Meadows, a Charleston, West Virginia, mining engineer and mine operator, containing correspondence, maps, reports, and photographs on companies involved in coal, oil and gas production in Appalachia, the Rocky Mountain states, and Latin America.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Samuel Davis Stokes Papers, 1915/1925 4.6 Linear Feet Summary: 4 ft. 7 in. (11 document cases, 5 in. each)

Stokes, Samuel Davis, 1872-1969

Business and financial papers, correspondence and legal files of S.D. Stokes, a Williamson, West Virginia, attorney. The material consists of bills, accounts and receipts; business papers (ca. 1921-1925), reflecting Stokes' interest in farming and his law office files (1915-1925), arranged alphabetically by client's name. Subjects include Mingo County and coal-related court cases.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Slaughter's Creek Coal & Land Company Records, 1905/1948 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 2 1/2 in. (1 document case)

Slaughter's Creek Coal and Land Company

The company owned coal lands in the Cabin Creek district of West Virginia. The collection includes deeds, contracts, maps, and engineering reports, with mention of the Winifrede Collieries Co., Wet Branch Mining Co., Chelyan Coal & Land Co., Standard Ore and Alloys Corporation, and Charleston Interurban Railroad Company.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records, 1800/1961 0.71 Linear Feet Summary: 8 1/2 in. (1 folder, 1 1/2 in.); (4 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Smokeless Coal Operators Association

Production statistics and extracts from the historical files of the Smokeless Operators Association (until 1958 the Pocahontas Operators Association) showing the history of coal mining in the Pocahontas field and production, sales, and distribution statistics for the years 1930 and 1933-1961. There are weekly, monthly, and yearly reports on net tons produced, hours, worked, and tonnage lost because of labor problems, mine disability, or lack of market. There are lists of the coal companies operating in the Pocahontas district during these years. Some files include reports on net production by grade.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Statler Family Correspondence, 1899/1918 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 2 1/2 in. (1 document case)

Statler family
Most of the letters are to Alice C. Statler Partiquin of Davis, West Virginia, while others are to her brother Ira Statler and other members of the family. Several letters to Ira concern operation of a coal mine in the area of Cherry Run, Morgan County. Subjects include family marriages, births, and deaths as well as news of the neighborhood. Places mentioned include Davis, Hedgesville, Holton, Horton, and Martinsburg.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Mine Workers Records at Cornell University, 1899/1927 0 Linear Feet Summary: 1 item

United Mine Workers of America
Guide to the microfilmed records at the Labor Management Documentation Center of Cornell's M.P. Catherwood Library. Includes the early joint conferences of coal miners and operators, 1899-1920, the District 12 (Illinois) conventions, 1899-1916 and grievance adjustment proceedings, 1899-1927. None of Cornell's holdings pertain directly to West Virginia.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Pocahontas Coal Company Records, 1915/1968 0.04 Linear Feet 1 folder, 0.5 in.

United Pocahontas Coal Company
This collection consists mainly of business records of the United Pocahontas Coal Company of Crumpler, West Virginia (McDowell County), including a one-page typescript history of the company, bylaws (1915), business correspondence, and three blueprint maps.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Watson Family Papers, 1869/1953 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Watson family

Personal papers of the Watson family in Marion County, including a genealogy of the Watson and Haymond families, newspaper clippings of weddings, obituaries, social and business activities, and European travel. Mention is made of coal mining development in Marion County, strikes, labor meetings, conservation, and improvement of farming practices. There is material on politics, industrial development, early iron mining, Marion county history, the Barrickville covered bridge, Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike, and the Presbyterian Church in Fairmont.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia Department of Mines Reports, 1916/1932 16.48 Linear Feet Summary: 16 ft. 5 3/4 in. (113 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

West Virginia. Department of Mines

Accident and inspection reports from the West Virginia Department of Mines, subdivided into: fatal accidents [1919-1932]; nonfatal accidents [1916-1932]; minor accidents [1919-1932]; inspection reports [1919-1927]; and sand mines and prosecutions [1927-1932].

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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