The Magazine of the Jefferson County Historical Society has been published annually since 1935. The Table of Contents of each issue is reproduced below to assist in determining the date and subject of articles that may be of interest to readers. Please visit "THE STORE" page to purchase individual issues of the magazine.
Volume I. December 1935
Early Settlers in Jefferson County
Letter to Major Henry Bedinger, Merchant
Discharge of Wm. & Geo. Tabb
Swearingen's Spring
Irving's Visit to the Valley
Daniel Boone's Marriage to Rebecca Bryan
Keyes' Ferry
Wedding of Dolley Payne Todd and James Madison
Notes by Observer
The Old Academy in Charles Town
Washington's Sword
"The English Church" Now Called "St. George's"
Robert Harper, Founder of Harpers Ferry
Letter from Henry Bedinger to Capt. Abram Shepherd
History of a Confederate Flag
The Old Charles Town Academy (1795)
The Story of Falling Spring
Volume II December 1936.
The Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry
The Bullskin Run
The Roads of Jefferson County
Early Taverns of Jefferson County
List of Books Relating to Jefferson County
Volume III. December 1937
James Rumsey and His Steamboat
Certificate by Horatio Gates
Fraternal Organizations in Jefferson County
Some Old Graves and Graveyards in Jefferson County
Letters to Cadet Thos. B. Washington
Jefferson County Voters, January 1789
Braddock's March Through Jefferson County
The Middleway Blues
Uniform of the Potomac Rifle Company
Letter by Major Henry Bedinger
From the Potomak Guardian, January 14, 1796 (James Jack)
From the Charles Town Free Press, July 8, 1854.
The Virginia & Maryland Bridge Company
From the Potomac Guardian, January 9, 1799 (Shepherd Blues)
Volume IV December 1938
Rutherford Rangers
Early Libraries in Jefferson County
Pioneer Preachers in Jefferson County
Revolutionary Soldiers of Jefferson County
Volume V December 1939.
Early Grange Activities
The Ring Tournament of 1853
Robert Rutherford
Joseph McMurran of Shepherd College
Quaker Element in Jefferson County
Shepherdstown Schools, 1762-1872
E. Hutchinson Miller, the Artist
Volume VI. December 1940.
Jefferson County in the War of 1812
Muster Roll of George W. Humphrey's Company
Muster Roll of Capt. Joseph Grantham's Company
Class Roll of Capt. James Conn's Company
Class Roll of Capt. Presley Marmaduke's Company
Other Notes on Jefferson County in War of 1812
Weis Pottery
[Jefferson County Portraits and Portrait Painters]
A Partial List of Artists Who Worked in Jefferson County or Painted Jefferson Countians or Whose Paintings Are Owned in the County
A Partial List of Jefferson Countians Owning Portraits by Unidentified Painters
Volume VII, December 1941
Old Houses of the Leetown Neighborhood
Shannondale
Early Architecture in Western Virginia
The Robert Lemen Family
War of 1812 Soldiers and Ancestors of Members of the James Gibson Chapter, Daughters of 1812
Captain Jacob Reinhart's Shepherdstown Cavalry
County Book Shelf
Volume VIII. December 1942.
The Wyncoop, Morgan, Selby, Hamtramck Families
More About the Keyes of Keyes' Ferry
Charles Town and Its Notables
Traders Settle at Harpers Ferry in 1707
Jeannette Aglionby, Life Member 1927-1933
Cressinger Pottery
Some Old Bibles
Teachers Wanted in 1853
Volume IX. December 1943.
Falling Spring
John Brown's Provisional Constitution
More Old Bibles
Indian Sport
The Bedinger Family
County Bookshelf
Volume X. December 1944.
Album of Historic Homes
Peter Burr and His House
Richard Stephenson House
Dry Bridge Farm
Bedford
Fountain Rock
The Rocks
Wingerd Cottage
Lower Farm Shepherd Grade
Swearingen to Shepherd Letter
Old Landmark Changes Hands
Glebe Deed St. George's Chapel
More Bibles and Family Records
Conrad Schindler Bible
Jacob Kraft Marburg Hymnal
Isaac Strider Bible
Samuel Strider Bible
Raleigh Moler Bible
William J. Moler Bible
Items from 1824 Harper's Ferry Free Press
Volume XI. December 1945.
Album of Historic Homes II
Altona
Locust Hill
Shenstone
Rockland and James Verdier
Wheatlands
Battaile Muse
The Union School
Shepherdstown Pledges Its Support to President John Adams
Licenses for Marriages
Early Shepherdstown and Its Churches
Volume XII. December 1946
Album of Historic Homes Ill
Beall Air
Cedar Lawn
Boyhood Home of Governor E. Willis Wilson
Hawthorn
Westwood
School Superintendents of Jefferson County
Our Link Ancestry in America
Elk Branch Church and Academy
Diary Tells of "Hessians" Here in 1782
Volume XIII. December 1947
Album of Historic Homes IV
Happy Retreat
Walnut Grove
Blakeley
Fruit Hill
The Panhandles of West Virginia
55th Regiment of Virginia Militia
Volume XIV. December 1948
Shepherdstown a Century Ago and Some of its Master Builders
An Early Camp Meeting in Jefferson County
Thomas Worthington
55th Regiment of Virginia Militia, Part II
Volume XV. December 1949
Elmwood and Cold Spring
Leeland
Rion Hall
Claymont
General Pinckney at Shepherdstown
Forty-Niners of Jefferson County
Volume XVI. December 1950.
The Early Van Swearingens
The C. & O. Canal
"The Black Rose" of Shepherdstown
From Old Harpers Ferry Newspapers
Martin R. Delaney
Volume XVII. December 1951.
Jefferson County Sesqui-Centennial
Millbrook, Oldest House in Mill Colony
Billmyer's Mill and the Billmyer Family
Morgan's Grove Fair
Jefferson County, Cradle of West Virginia Literature
Behind the Scenes of the Colonial Wars
Volume XVIII. December 1952
The Battle of Smithfield
Rose Brake or Poplar Grove
The Reverend Abner C. Hopkins, D. D
Postmasters and Post Offices in Charles Town
Shepherd-Pinckney Exchange of Letters
Jefferson Countians in U.S. Congress
President Cleveland at William L. Wilson's Funeral in Charles Town
Volume XIX December 1953.
Piedmont, a Manor House of Jefferson County
1850 STATISTICS ON JEFFERSON COUNTY
Virginia or West Virginia
Rezin Davis Shepherd, Public Benefactor and Country Squire
SHIP BORE NAME OF R. D. SHEPHERD'S DAUGHTER
Judge Richard Parker-He Tried John Brown
HEAVY LOAD AT SHEPHERDSTOWN WHARF
John Yates Beall, His Thrilling Career for the South
Volume XX. December 1954
The Tiffin House and Its Builder
Media
Shannon Hill
Alexander Robinson Boteler
Shepherdstown U. S. Postal Service
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
State Governors
County Book Shelf
Volume XXI. December 1955
The James Rumsey Memorial in London
Album of Historic Homes VII
Retirement
Rose Hill Farm
Belmont
Old Mills
The Rocks' Mill
Muse Mill
McPherson's Mill
Gaunt's Mill
Turner's Mill
Feagans' Mill
Robarder's Mill
Rutherford Mill
The Horse Jockey
Washington to Swearingen Letter
Wright Denny
County Book Shelf
Volume XXII. December 1956
Album of Historic Homes VIII
Head Spring
Prospect Hall
Charles Town Horse Racing in Early Days
1850 Census of Jefferson County
Land Grants in Jefferson County
Regal Grants
Fairfax Grants
Century Farm Histories
Kitty Fry Farm (1734)
Turner Brothers' Spring Hill Farm
Burrland (1751)
Cherry Crag (1751)
John W. Hendricks Farm (1754)
Tudor Hall (1773)
Vaughen Link Farm (1778)
Greystone (1786)
Fair View at Middleway (1810)
Straithmoor (1827)
Traveller's Rest (1830)
Rock Spring Farm (1848)
Fair View at Rippon (1850)
Locust Grove (1851)
Fruitland (1853)
The Story of Redmond Burke
Corrections -- Re "The Rocks"
Notable Event of 1956
Volume XXIII. December 1957
Harewood
Rock Hall
More Land Grants
Regal Grants
Fairfax Grants
Century Farms II
Harewood (1751)
Hart- Daniels Farm (1755)
Locust Hill (1771)
Robert W. McCormick's Fairview (1790)
Wood End (1804)
Mountain View (1805)
Gruber Farm (1807)
Willow Grove (1819)
Cherry Lake (1820)
Vinson (1826)
Rippon Home (1842)
Belmont (1856)
More About the Tates
The Catarina Beierlin Tombstone
Ripon or Rippon
The Rumsey Anniversary at Shepherdstown
Ella May Turner (1876-1957)
Volume XXIV December 1958
Album of Historic Homes IX
The Bower
The Rectory and John Baker
The Sheetz Gunsmiths
Sara Nourse and James Nourse
Diary of Mrs. James Nourse
A List of Potomac Crossings
Potomac Crossings (the story)
Cornerstone Contrast
Volume XXV. December 1959
Shepherdstown Manse and John Kearsley
Hite V Fairfax Suit
Hawthorne at Harpers Ferry
President Tyler at Carter House
Alexander R. Boteler Sketches John Brown
"Poyson" Fields
Centennial at Harpers Ferry
County Bookshelf
Volume XXVI December 1960.
Jefferson County Oxonians
The Rhodes Scholars
The Sparrow Fellows
Moses Hoge
Benjamin Allen
More about Robarder's Mill
The Hammond Antique Quilt
A Civil War Episode
Memorial Plaques in Shepherdstown
Charlestown and Shepherdstown by Bagby
Traveling on the Railroad in 1840
Tombstone Inscriptions I
Volume XXVIII. December 1962
Album of Historic Homes XII
The Robert Harper House
The Franks' "Baker House"
Woman's Suffrage Hinge of Fate
Wizard Clip and Priest's Field
Charlotte of Mecklenburg
Shepherdstown Bicentennial
A Tale from Terrapin Neck
An Ample Receipt
Government Tablets near Pack Horse Ford
Corn Exchange Regiment Pen Sketches
Tombstone Inscriptions III
Volume XXIX December 1963.
Album of Historic Homes XIII
Glenburnie or Glenn Burnie
The Chapline-Shenton House
Esta Burton Hilleary Museum
Historical Society's Library
Recent Books of County Interest
The Stage Coach Inn
Mail Stages in 1797
John Stephens Tavern, Charles Town
Brass Works in Jefferson County
Charles-Town Races, 1797
Mill Near Keyes's Ferry, 1797
Robert Buckles Estate, 1791
Property of Henry Cookus II, 1791
Shepherd's Town Academy, 1796
School of Church Music, 1791
Tombstone Inscriptions IV
Volume XXX December 1964
The County's Shakespearean Actor
Iron Industry in Jefferson County
Old Schools of Harpers Ferry and Bolivar
Turner School
Gunstock Fence, Sheetz Place
General Horatio Gates
General Horatio Gates's Traveller's Rest
General Charles Lee
General Charles Lee's Prato Rio
New Roadside Markers
Items from
Farmer's Repository, 1812
Daily Intelligencer, Washington, 1823
Farmer's Repository, 1825
Virginia Free Press, 1838
Virginia Free Press, 1842
Virginia Free Press, 1843
Virginia Free Press & Farmers' Repository, 1850
Virginia Free Press, 1853
Shepherdstown Register, 1860
West Virginia Democrat, 1888
Shepherdstown Independent, 1898
Tombstone Inscriptions V
Volume XXXI. December 1965
S. Howell Brown, The Man and His Maps
Charlestown, Charles Town or Charleston
The Founding of St. Peter's Church, Shepherdstown
The Hite Families in Jefferson County
Jacob Hite and Immediate Family
John Hite, Oldest Son of Jacob
Thomas Hite, Second Son of Jacob
James Hite, 1776-1855
George Hite, Youngest Son of Jacob
Hite-Willis Descendants
Thomas Hite Willis, 1800-1884
Nathaniel Hite Willis, 1842-1914
The Kenamonds of Shepherdstown
Rare Books Recently Acquired by the Society
New Book by a Member of the Society
Volume XXXII. December 1966
Diary of James Woodberry Boyden, August 1837-July 1838
Notes for the Diary
References Used
Volume XXXIII December 1967
The Fortieth Anniversary
Additional Notes on the Diary of James Woodberry Boyden
Album of Historic Homes XIV Cassilis
House and Garden Tours
Jefferson County Personal Property Tax List of 1800
Publications of Regional Interest
Dunaway General Store at Strawberry Banke
Volume XXXIV. December 1968
Album of Historic Homes XV - Belvedere
THE ANNUAL SPRING MEETING
Diary of Thomas Keyes Humphreys 1811 - 1851
Memoirs of Jennie Love Forrest Richardson
VOLUME XXXV. DECEMBER 1969
William L. Wilson, Patriot, Politician and College President
Mr. Jex Presents Painting to the Society
Northern Virginia Agriculture in 1791
Of Interest to Members
Tombstone Inscriptions VI (Part 2) - Zion Church Yard
Volume XXXVI, December 1970.
Album of Historic Homes XVI - Richwood Hall
Samuel Washington
A Petition for the Formation of Jefferson County
Specifications for Planting Orchards in Early Leases George Washington's Lease to Jacob Fry
Dry Wall Stone Fences - The Fence at Altona
Tombstone Inscriptions VIII - Zion Church Yard
Volume XXXVII December 1971
Traveller's Rest
Diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler
John Yates and Jefferson's Many Schools
Background of Beall-Air
The Curtilege of Rion Hall
Of Interest to Members
Historic Preservation
Volume XXXVIII December 1972.
Historic Preservation -- A Progress Report
Jefferson County's Forty-Niners
Diary of Susan Wood Keyes
From the Account Book of Mathew Frame
Harewood Residents since Samuel Washington and Notes on Richard B. Washington and the Last Years at Blakeley and Claymont
Dr. Howard B. Allen
Volume XXXIX December 1973
My Ride to the Barbecue
Historic Preservation -- A Progress Report Architectural-Historic Survey
West Virginia Senate Bill No.421
County Listings on the National Register for Historic Preservation
Volume XL, December 1974.
Famous Confederate Flag
Chew's Flying Battery
Damage to the Court House and Jail during the Civil War
Clocks Made by Jacob Craft
Hazelfield
Tombstone Inscriptions IX
Historic Preservation
Summer Meetings
The Magazine in 1975
Volume XLI December 1975
Pre-Revolutionary Structures and Sites In Jefferson County
Charles Town Area
Ruins of the English Church (St. George's Chapel)
Stone Kitchen at Piedmont
Harewood
Manor House Outbuildings
Stone Kitchen at Happy Retreat
Stone Buildings at Beverly
Shepherdstown Area
Bellevue
Stone House at Fruit Hill
Springwood
Stone House at Morgan's Spring
Springdale
General Darke Site
Peter Burr House
Kearneysville-Leetown Area
Traveler's Rest
Prato Rio
Summit Point Area
Head Spring
White House
Stone House at Rock Hall
George Washington and the Shenandoah Valley
Volume XLII December 1976
Pre-Revolutionary Structures and Sites in Jefferson County
Locust Ridge-Stone Haven
Aspen Pool
Fairfax Grant Farm
George Washington Masonic Cave
Alexandria and Warm Spring Road
Old Norborne Parish (Part I)
Bicentennial Events in Jefferson County
Charles Town
Harpers Ferry-Bolivar
Shepherdstown
Volume XLIII, December 1977
The Stages of Development of West Virginia's Shenandoah Valley Counties: A Preliminary Sketch
The Wilson House in Charles Town
The Building of The New County Jail In 1872-73
The Graves of Charles and Mildred Washington
Test Excavation of the Charles and Mildred Washington Grave Site
Editor's Comment
The First Fifty Years of the Jefferson County Historical Society 1927-1977
Remarks of Henry W. Morrow on The Occasion of The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Jefferson County Society May 21,1977
Falling Spring Branch and Shepherdstown's Town Run
The Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission
Preservation Groups Are Active
I. Charles Town Historic Landmarks Commission
II. Pride In Action In Charles Town
III. Merger of Shepherdstown Preservation Groups
Olde Berkeley Statewide Preservation Conference
The Summer Picnic Meeting
The Society's Archives
Recent Additions to the Society's Archives
For Your Information
Membership
Contributions Welcomed
Old Norborne Parish, Part II
Volume XLIV December 1978.
The 1870 Flood
A Look Back at Claymont Court
Album of Historic Homes XVII -- Southwood Spring
Petition to Ashby
Post War Announcement
A Man and His Land:. The Story of Jacob and Frances Hite and the Cherokees
Charles Town Historic Landmarks Commission
Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission
Pride in Action
Mrs. Robert T. Browse
Dr. William T. Barnhart
Summer Picnic
Additions to the Society's Library and Archives
Tombstone Inscriptions X -- Union Cemetery, Middleway
Volume XLV, December 1979.
Old Norborne Parish (Part II:1771-1816)
Dr. William J. Barnhart
Richard Edmonston Venning, M.D. and Charles Town's First Hospital
Shepherdstown Is Active in Preservation
Charles Town Historic Landmarks Commission
Pride in Action
Jefferson County Historic Landmarks Commission
The Priest Field Pastoral Center and the Summer Picnic
Book Notes
Additions to the Society's Library and Archives
SUPPLEMENT
(Under separate Cover)
to Map of Jefferson County, Virginia (1852) by S. Howell Brown
Volume XLVI December 1980
Dr. Stealey New President
Middleway Symposium
Story of Early Smithfield
The Churches of Smithfield
Turkey Spring, Lake Louisa or Big Spring
Mollie Pultz, Confederate Spy
Jefferson County Landmarks Commission
Album of Historic Homes XVIII -- Beverley
The Norborne Church's South Door
Charles Town Landmarks Commission
Pride In Action
Shepherdstown Landmarks Commission
Summer Picnic
Bird's Eye View of Middleway
Volume XLVII, December 1981
Major James
Walton Thomson
A Factual Account of the Wedding at Harewood of James and Dolley Madison
Pottery in the 1800s. The Weis Pottery, Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Historic Shepherdstown Commission Restoration Project
The Jefferson County Landmarks Commission
Pride in Action
Report on the Miss Louise C. Briscoe Bequest
Summer Picnic
Comprehensive Listing of County Tombstones Inscriptions
Book Notes
Volume XLVIII December 1982.
The Valley Chess Club, by John A. Washington, M.D
Fredericka White's Testament of Faith, edited by Frederica H. Trapnell
Simple Inscriptions and Sentiment Tell the Impressive Tale: Letters of General Robert E. Lee to Miss Louisa Fontaine Washington, edited by John E. Stealey, III, Ph.D
Summer Picnic
Volume XLIX December 1983
The Town Clock: The Origins of Shepherd College, by Don C. Wood
Colonel Lawson Botts, C. S. A., by Frederica H. Trapnell
Evidence of the Jefferson County Hendricks Family in Early American Records, by Marilyn Stoll Coalla
The Miner's Treason Trial: A Photograph of Note, by Mrs. B. Frank Humston and Mrs. C. William Moore
Summer Picnic
Historic Shepherdstown Commission, by Mr. Ben Miller
Thornton T. Perry, II, Room, Old Charles Town Library, Inc
Editorial Note
Volume L, December 1984
History of Friend's Orebank and Keeptryst Furnace, by William D. Theriault
Abraham Davenport, Sr. (1714-1789), by Kevan Davenport
White Plumes and Cornstalks: Jefferson County's Pre-War Militia (1858-1861), by Dennis E. Frye
Jefferson County's Two Lost Municipal Corporations, by John Stroud Kusner
Summer Picnic
Historic Shepherdstown Commission, by Ben Miller
Society Speakers at Spring and Fall Meetings
Volume LI. December 1985
The Execution of Ebenezer Cox, by Cecil D. Eby
Narrative of a John Brown Pilgrim, by Cecil D. Eby
Fragrance of Violets, by Claire Schley Goulding
History of Bakerton, by William D. Theriault
Shepherdstown Graded School by John E. Stealey, Ill
September 6 Celebration
Summer Picnic
Rumsey Bicentennial
Volume LII December 1986
A Reconstruction Philippic: George Alfred Townsend's Visit to Jefferson County, 1869, edited by Cecil D. Eby
The Weis Pottery and the Genealogy of the Potters, by Clyde D. Morton
The Potts-Hobart Correspondence: The Local Iron Industry in the 1790's, by William D. Thenault
The Halltown Chapel, by Betty Davis
The Historic Shepherdstown Commission, by Ben Miller
Trivia
Summer Picnic
Volume LIII, December 1987
Charles Aglionby of Mount Pleasant and the Years 1861 to 1865, by Francis Aglionby
Making It on Seventy-Five Acres: Letters by Mrs. John M. Daniel from 1883 to 1891, edited by Richard Micou Daniel
EImwood-on-the Opequon, Leetown: A Memoir, by George H. Bowers
The Conklyn Brothers and their Furniture by Nancy C. Coyle
Summer Picnic
Volume LIV, December 1988
They Are Coming!": Testimony at the Court of Inquiry on Imboden's Capture of Charles Town, edited by Paul E. Barr, Jr., and Michael P. Musick
Making It on Seventy-Five Acres (Part Two): Letters by Mrs. John M. Daniel from 1892 to 1900, edited by Richard Micou Daniel
The Civil War Recollections of Cleon Moore, edited by Louis Santucci
Eye-Witness Account of the Hanging of John Brown, edited by Eleanor Lee Templeman
Summer Picnic
Volume LV, December 1989
"Powder, Lead, and Cold Steel": Campaigning in the Lower Shenandoah Valley with the Twelfth Pennsylvania Cavalry -- The Civil War Letters of John H. Black, edited by David J. Coles and Stephen D. Engle
Volume LVI December 1990: ONLYI: 1850 Census of Jefferson County, Virginia
Volume LVII, December 1991
Rezin Davis Shepherd, III (R.D. MacLean): He Loved Shakespeare as His Life, by Jack Peyrouse
The Jones Family -- Stonemasons of Shepherdstown, by Elizabeth Snyder Lowe and Marianne Johnson
Provenance of the Twenty-Five Confederate Battle-Markers, by John E. Stealey, III
Volume LVIIII December 1992
Shepherdstown and The Morgan-Stephenson Companies, 1775-1988, by Joseph Whitehorne
Rion Hall and Daniel Bedinger Lucas, by Virginia Lucas, 1871-1929
Grubb-Conway House, Circa 1762, by Mrs. Thomas C. G. Coyle and Patricia Perez
An English Reporter in the Valley, 1865, edited by Cecil D. Eby
Charles Town Celebrates Its First Two Hundred Years, by Hugh E. Voress
Summer Picnic
Volume LIX December 1993
Recollections of Richard D. Ruthefford, edited by Cecil D. Eby
A Woman's Recollections of Antietam, by Mary Bedinger Mitchell (Mary Blunt), edited by James T. Surkamp
Trivia -- Charles Broadway Rouss Memorial Hall; Independent Fire Company
Summer Picnic, by Florence H. Moore
Volume LX. December 1994.
Some Lucases of Jefferson County, by Frederica Holmes Trapnell
House and Garden Tours, 1968-1994, by MaryAnn White Morgan
Trivia - A Friend in Need
Summer Picnic, by Florence H. Moore
Volume LXI, December 1995.
A Shepherdstown Tragedy, compiled by Elizabeth Snyder Lowe
The Gibson House, Shepherdstown, contributed by Audrey Egle
Slave Census of 1850, Jefferson County, (West) Virginia, with , compiled by Hugh E. Voress and Robert E. Allen
Summer Picnic, by Florence H. Moore
Volume LXII. December 1996.
The Story of the Jefferson County Courthouse, by Judge David Hartley Sanders
Hite v. Fairfax and the Case of Terrapin Neck, by Elizabeth H. Hyman
Fragments of a Diary of Shepherdstown - Events During the War 1861-5
Trivia - Charles Town Is One of the Thriving Little Cities of West Virginia
Summer Picnic, by Florence H. Moore
Volume LXIII December 1997
Jefferson County Admiral - Julian Lane Latimer. by Cecil D. Eby
Roy Hooe - Charles Town's Pioneer Aviator b. 23 October 1894 - d. 18 April 1972 by Cecil D. Eby
Shepherdstown Sixty or Seventy Years Ago: Boyhood and Other Reminiscences by D.C. Gallaher
Bibliography - Reference to Jefferson County Native -- Reverend Mr. James Lemen, 1760-1823
Summer Picnic
Volume LXIV December 1998
The Rion Hall of My Youth by Frederica Holmes Trapnell
Escape from Harpers Ferry: The Personal Narrative of Owen Brown. Introduction and Notes by Cecil D. Eby
Volume LXV. December 1999
Woodlawn: Davenport to Wiltshire. Jeremy Lazelle
George Schoppert of Harper's Ferry: Assassin or Patriot? October 18, 1859
History of Bellevue. Mrs. Elizabeth Ann (Bessie) Lemen Criswell
'To Be More Than Equal': Martin Delany, 1812-1884. By James Surkamp
Twenty, First Cousins in the Civil War. Vivian Park Snyder
Picnic
Volume LXVI December 2000
"Growing Up In Charles Town: History and Memory,"
"Charles Town Resident Nathaniel Willis Washington,"
"David Keplinger of Shepherdstown and His Descendants,"
"Minutes of the First Meetings of the Jefferson County Historical Society," Picnic
Volume LXVII December 2001
Jefferson County Post Offices, by Wilford Burke
John H. Fox: A Remarkable Man, by Elsie Hamstead
History of the Blessing Property, by James Taylor
Jefferson County Historic Road Markers, compiled by Carmen W. Creamer
The Jefferson County Bicentennial Celebration, by Carmen W. Creamer
Picnic
Jefferson County History Video
Lemen Genealogy Published
Volume LXVIII. December 2002
Stealey, John E. III. The Freedmen's Bureau in West Virginia,
Collins, Susan M. "Charles Town's Initiative" The Building of Old Charles Town Library and Civic Center, 1965.
Kedzierski, Wendy. Picnic. Aspen Pool Farm
Volume LXVIX. December 2003
Historical and Archaeological Investigations of the Flowing Springs Mill, by William D.
Updike
The Washingtons of Jefferson County, Interview of John A. Washington by
James T. Surkamp
The Railroad at Potomac Cliffs, Shepherdstown, compiled by John E. Stealey II
JCHS Picnic at Tudor Hall, by Mrs. John Philip Creamer III
Volume LXX December 2004
A History of the National Conservation Training Center Property and Surrounding
Area, Part One: The Colonial Era, by Dan Everson
Storer College and its Role in Assisting African Americans in Securing Homes in
Jefferson County, by James A. Beckman
Page-Jackson High School by James Taylor
Jefferson County Ironworks by David G. Allen
Extracting iron in Jefferson County by Stanley Dickinson
Notes and Sources Section
Charles Town Academy Class Roster 1852-53, by Mary Thomason Morris
Picnic at Aspen Hill by Carmen Creamer
Volume LXXI December 2005
A History of the National Conservation Training Center Property and Surrounding
Area, Part Two: The Federal Period, by Dan Everson
The Correspondence of Bettie Brittian Koonce, September 1862, contributed by
William L. Brockner
Thomas J. Clark and James A. Clark, CSA by Janice Cox Brown
Notes and Sources Section:
The Shepherds Town Academy, contributed by Earl Jackson
Picnic and White House Farm by Carmen Creamer
Volume LXXII December 2006
A History of the National Conservation Training Center Property and Surrounding Area, Part Three: The Nineteenth Century
The Chapline Family Burial Ground
Cornerstone of the Modern Civil Rights Era: The 1906 Niagara Movement
Conference at Harpers Ferry
The Search for the "Old Negroe Burying Ground"
Summer Picnic at Millbrook
Volume LXXIII December 2007
Ho, for California! The Charlestown Virginia Mining Company
John Augustine Washington, III et al
George Washington’s Lost Plantation
James B. Washington: An Often Forgotten One-Time Resident
and Descendant of the George Washington Family in Jefferson County
The Portrait of Charles Washington
Summer Picnic at Happy Retreat
Volume LXXIV December 2008
Life in the Goldfish Bowl: Happy Retreat 1945 to 1954
“The Officers In General are exceedingly (sic) discontent…”
Rebel in Iowa Randy Koch
The Conservation of the Chew Flag
Finding History: Brown-Shugart House
John F. Kennedy’s Speech at the Charles Town Race Track
Summer Picnic at Mt. Ellen
Volume LXXV December 2009
John Brown’s Raid – The Breaking Story: As reported from Harper’s Ferry
The Trial of John Brown (by Bushrod C. Washington, dated 1899)
John Brown Trial of 1859 and the Virginia Insanity Defense Laws Explored
The Capture, Trial and Execution of John Anthony Copeland, Jr. and Shields Green
The 1859 Cary Breckinridge Letter
John Brown’s Men Who Escaped from Harpers Ferry
Given in Evidence
The Old Wagon Will Make a Fine Exhibit
Summer Picnic at Allstadt House and Ordinary
