Caption on postcard reads: "Ebenezer Zane's Old Log Cabin. The first building erected in Wheeling built in 1769, torn down 1908. This is the cabin to which Elizabeth Zane made her heroic dash for powder during the siege of Ft. Henry by the British and Indians."
Illustrated postcard of two men and a boy standing along pedestrian walkway across bridge on Bridge Street. See original for correspondence. Published by Grant Graham. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
In 1891 W.H. Crawford established the Crawford Woolen Company which employed fifteen workers and produced around seven hundred yards of cloth a week. In less than fifteen years Crawford's textile plant failed due to the old age of the operating machines and low capital. During the same time a number of modern electric powered mills moved to Martinsburg, turning it into an important textile center. Published by W.E. Holfheins & Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Alexander Campbell was a religious leader who helped start the Restoration Movement which created several Churches of Christ, an independent and pre-denominational congregation, in America. He also founded Bethany College in Bethany, West Virginia. See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Yankee Street covered in snow during the winter. See original for correspondence. Published by N.E. paper and Stationery Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Homes in the distance at base of mountain at Kanawha Falls, West Virginia. See original for correspondence. Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Bowlder Rock on Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad Near; Nuttall, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1909
Description:
Man stands besides Bowlder Rock on the side of railroad tracks to emphasize it's size. See original for correspondence. Published by The Rose Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Hand painted aerial depiction over town center. See original for correspondence. Published by The Hugh C. Leighton Co. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Train tracks running through rocky mountain sides into a tunnel. Published by the Hugh C. Leighton Company. See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
View of the fountain at Newell Park. See original for correspondence. Published by The Valentine & Sons Publishing Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Several horse and buggies travel down the road during some sort of possible festivity. See original for correspondence. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
A few men sit by the curb, observing the grounds by the depot as a crowd gathers outside to greet the approaching train. Published by Pike News Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "Court House at Charlestown, W. Va. (then Virginia), where John Brown was tried and convicted on Nov. 2, 1859. The scaffold on which Brown was executed was afterwards built into the porch of a house, bought by a Confederate soldier, still the owner. It was taken to Chicago and then brought to Washington. The Kansas State Historical Society will probably become its permanent owner." Published by The National Tribune. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "Charlestown is the county seat of Jefferson County, West Virginia (then Virginia), and on the Shenandoah Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio, about 10 miles southwest of Harper's Ferry. In 1859 it had a population of less than 1,500, about one third of whom were colored. It is surrounded by a fertile and beautiful country. The jail in which John Brown was confined and from which he was taken to execution has been rebuilt and modernized." Published by National Tribune. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Charleston High School, the only public high school in the city at that time. Building later became Mercer Grade School.See original postcard for correspondence. Published by The Valentine & Sons Publishing Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Place of the Glycerine Explosion; Near Cameron, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1909
Description:
A description of the event from "The Petroleum Gazette": "Tony Shuster, an oil well shooter was blown to atoms at 6:30 this morning when the nitroglycerine magazine of the Marietta Torpedo Co. 1/2 mile east of town, exploded. Shuster's team and wagon were blown to bits, the shoe of one horse falling in the center of the town. Every window in Cameron was demolished. Windows at Bristoria 12 miles distant, were broken. A great hole 30 feet in diameter and 15 feet deep marks the spot where the magazine stood. Bits of flesh were found over an area of over 1/2 a mile." (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Mound is 79 feet high and 900 feet in circumference at base. See original for correspondence. Published by T.R. Rogers and Sons. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Main St., Looking North From 12th St.; Wheeling, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1909
Description:
Tent, cover, and awning shop to the left. See original for correspondence. Published by Souvenir Post Card Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)