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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1893-08-02/1893-08-02">1893 August 2</unitdate>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Photographs of Mob Moving Records to Courthouse in Parsons, Tucker County, WV, A&amp;M 4250, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>Two .tif files which are scans of black and white photos depicting the mob that moved county court records from the St. George courthouse to the Parsons courthouse on 1893 August 2, as part of a dispute about the location of the county seat. Also included are two .docx files describing the photos.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname source="ingest">Tucker County (W. Va.) -- Politics and government</geogname>
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