Monument to George Washington's Crossing of the Cheat River via Ice's Ferry, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1932
Description:
View of children standing by tablet. Tablet reads 'George Washington crossed Cheat River at this point via Ice's Ferry September 25, 1784. Tablet placed by the Elizabeth Ludington Hagans Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution.'
Log Walkway or Bridge Near the Cheat River, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
1905
Description:
Two men are talking while standing on a wooden bridge that overlooks the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia. Photograph is taken from Hugh Maxwell's book.
Cheat River looking up from Old Hilarity Club House, Monongalia County, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1880
Description:
"Cheat River, looking up the river from the mountain side above the old Hilarity Club House. So much of River as is shown is now flooded by the State Line Dam. Taken about 1880 or shortly thereafter--Note the style of clothing and facial adornment. Property of Jas. R. Moreland'
'Cheat River Bridge after the other washed away in 1918. This was not built upon the same piers and was a short distance further north. The old one went across from bluff to about where the shelving rock goes out (people swim and fish there now). Toward Mont Chateau. This same bridge was raised and added to when lake went in in 1926."
Locomotive Passing Buckhorn Wall Along the Cheat River Near Rowlesburg, W. Va.
Description:
'This stupendous bit of masonry was one of the greatest achievements of early railroading. It was built as a retaining wall for the bed of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, by Benjamin H. Latrobe, along the Cheat River, near Rowlesburg, W. Va., enabling the railway to cling safely to the side of the mountain.'
Train in the Heart of the Alleghenies on the Cheat River
Date:
1883
Description:
An illustration depicting a locomotive engine running along the Cheat River; it is copied from J.G. Pangborn's Picturesque B.& O., Historical and Descriptive (Chicago, 1883), p. 277.
View on Cheat River Grade at the Tray Run Iron and Stone Viaduct, Rowlesburg, W. Va.
Date:
1857
Description:
'An illustration depicting a scenery on Cheat River copied from William Prescott Smith's The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857 (n.x. 1858), facing p. 162. View on 'Cheat River Grade At the Tray Run Iron and Stone Viaduct, 25.7 Miles from Baltimore.'
View from Mt. Chateau on Cheat River Near Morgantown, W. Va.
Date:
1910/10/13
Description:
The photograph was taken from the east bank directly opposite Maple Run and the town of Rockley. Quarry Run empties into the Cheat at the bend in the river (left center). During the operation of the Cheat Iron Works(early 19th century), a saw mill and a boat yard were located close to the mouth of Quarry Run. Lumber from this mill was used to build flat boats to transport iron to markets. Information from A&M 3848; Grafton, A. Edwin. Paper.
'Parsons- John Crouch pioneer settler established "tomahawk rights" here in 1766, but the town was not incorporated until 1893. Here Shavers Fork and Blackwater unite to form the Cheat River. Hu Maxwell, the historian, lived near.'
