Virginia Turnpike Legacy Shapes Westward Route
The article traces the Northwestern Turnpike from Winchester to Parkersburg, detailing its 19th century construction, improvements, and impact on towns like Aurora and Fellowsville. It notes its competition with railroads, influence on immigration and commerce, and eventual decline with rail adoption, while highlighting key segments, bridges, and dates up to the 1850s.
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Tygart’s Valley
Parkersburg
Winchester
Moorefield
Green Spring
Baltimore
B. & O. Railway
Aurora
Fellowsville
Evansville
West Union
Preston
Ritchie
Brandonville
Somerfield
Kingwood
Pennsylvania Line
Potomac
Canaan
Oxenford
David Hunter Strother
Blackwater Chronicle
Porte Crayon
Virginia Canaan
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Pittsburgh
Alleghenies
Cumberland
Grafton
Notice of Publication in Jefferson County Estate Case
Regular Term 1922 Jefferson County West Virginia estate of Bartholomew Moore deceased. Hearings May 2 1922 report of Commissioner S W Washington approval of heirs and distribution after legacies. Executors E Vaughn Link and Warren Demery debts filing and two year qualification. creditors and interested parties ordered to show cause by August 8 1922 in Shepherdstown Register publication six weeks prior posted at court house and five public places. CHAS A JOHNSON Clerk County Court Jefferson County WV.
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Jefferson County
W. Va
Hartholomew Moore
S. W. Washington
Vaughn Link
Warren Demery
Bartholomew Moore
E. Vaughn Link
Robert L. Moore
Meta Irvin
Jefferson
Shepherdstown
Bartholomew Moor
For Sale Property Pieces Near Duffields and Shepherdstown
For sale a 40 by 203 feet unimproved Main street lot with seven rooms and an acre, near Duffields. A small farm about 45 acres on the pike one mile from a shipping point with fruit trees and ample water. A comfortable eight room house with a small barn and twenty acres in orchard. A brick seven room house with cellar cistern garden and electric lights. A ten room frame house with large lot. A 90 by 95 foot building site in a desirable town area. Seeking a small place near Shepherdstown two to ten acres, improved or unimproved. J Strider Moler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulding
Shepherdstown
J. Strider Moler
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Ohio Pree
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Mvent
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Presilley
Fellows- Thornton
Ineport
Clarks
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Reek
Salem
Tollgate
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Murphytowne
Pres- Noe Ringwood
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Ctoas
Buffalo
New York
Congress
Indiana
Samuel M. Ralston
Dearborn
Wade C. Kilmer
Martinsburg
Rochester
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P. W. Leiter
American la France Fire Engine Company
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Indy
Chas. A. Johnson
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J. W. Buckles
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Duffields
Strider Moler
Eggs and Poultry
Benj. Hartzell
MO. H. Schoppert
The
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Welshans
Saps Buyabox
Thomas
Atlas Portnd Cement
Atlas Portland Cement Company
Bovton
Philadelphia
Northamptom
Hindaoa
Leeds
Alan
Bain
Miles
Ming
Rot
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