Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia & Regional History Center
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6069
1549 University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26506
Primary Collecting Areas:
West Virginia and Appalachia History and Culture
Description:
The West Virginia & Regional History Center preserves and provides access to the records that document the history and culture of the state and the central Appalachian region. The Center is part of West Virginia University Libraries.
POC: Lori Hostuttler
Phone: (304) 293-3536
Start Over Repository West Virginia and Regional History Center Date range 1790

Currency Collection 0.25 Linear Feet 3 in. (1 small flat storage box)

A collection of United States, Confederate States, Continental, and Colonial currency. Also includes the state currencies of Alabama, Georgia, Delaware, and Virginia; the currency of Augusta County, and the city of Portsmouth, Va.; bank notes from Washington, D.C.; Clarksburg, Weston, and Charleston, W. Va.; Augusta, Norfolk, and Richmond, Va.; Baltimore, Maryland; Charleston, S.C.; and Connecticut, Ohio, and PA. Some of the notes are counterfeit, or forgeries. Also includes one large copper one cent piece 1841 U.S. Currency bearing the inscription "Millions For Defense, Not One Cent for Tribute". See the collection inventory for a listing of items with dates and numbers, sources, and earlier accession dates.
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Daniel Boone--Early Kanawha Valley (includes newspaper and magazine clippings, copies of documents, copies of essays by various people, etc. concerning Daniel Boone; also includes newspaper clippings, maps, copies of clippings, etc. concerning General Andrew Lewis; also includes letters, clippings, pictures, etc. concerning the Daniel Boone Memorial) Box 34, Volume Notebook 50

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  2. Roy Bird Cook (1886-1961), Collector, Papers
  3. Series 8. Bound Notebooks

Davis-Meranda Family of Clark County, Ohio, Genealogy .01 Linear Feet 8 leaves (1 folder)

Collection of genealogical information regarding the Davis family of Clark County, Ohio in the late 1700s to the mid 1800s. Beginning with Robert Davis, the collection follows the bloodline through his daughter, Mercy (Davis) Meranda, to where the family eventually moved to in Missouri and later, Indiana.

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D. Boston Stewart Papers 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 2 1/2 in. (1 document case, approximately 90 items)

Stewart, David Boston
David Boston Stewart (1826-1915), a farmer from Monongalia County, West Virginia, who served with the 48th Virginia Infantry and the 20th Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War and was a member of the Virginia Legislature from 1863 to 1864. Collection primarily consists of letters written to D.B. Stewart between 1862 and 1864 and between 1894 and 1906 that concern Stewart's time as a Confederate prisoner of war during the Civil War, and his personal life in the 1890s and early 1900s.
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