Index
Aberdeen Angus cattle, I, 529
Academies and seminaries, I, 291-296
Academies, old time, I, 629
Academy, first, west of the Blue Ridge, I, 110
Agricultural and household implements, I, 223
Agricultural implements, I, 228
Agricultural paper, first west of the blue ridge, I, 300
Agricultural statistics (1850), I, 254
Agriculture; status of farming in 1920, I, 524; before the civil war, 526; apple producing counties, 527; corn and other standard crops, 528; livestock, 528, 529, 530; farm machinery improvements and agricultural education, 531; State agricultural institutions, 531-534; farms and livestock (1900-1920), 536; acreage and production, 537; statics of (1900-1920), 712, 713
"Aldermanic" act, I, 316
Aldermanic School Law (1796), I, 279
Alderson, I, 90
Alexander and Eastern Railroad, I, 453
Alexandria, I, 526
Allen, Benjamin, I, 259
Allen, Samuel, letter of (1796), I, 122-125
Alley, L. S., Sketch of, I, 425
Allied War Relief, World's war, I, 709
Along the Norfolk & Western Railway in Virginia and West Virginia (illustrations), I, 486
Alpena, Swiss colony at, I, 593
Ambler, Charles H., I, 210
American Gazetter, extracts from (1797), I, 125
American Telephone and Telegraph Company, I, 539
Ancient home of the Burrs, in Jefferson County (illustration), I, 136
Anstead, I, 432
"Apple Pie Ridge," I, 527
Apples, varieties of, and producing counties, I, 527
Aracome, I, 240
Arbuckle, Matthew, I, 76
Archer, Robert L., I, 710
Arnoldsburg, I, 159
Asbury, Francis (Methodist bishop), I, 102; extracts from journal of, 115-118; first journey of, to Western Virginia (1781), 268
Ashe, Thomas, extracts from his "Travels in America" (1806), I, 128-130
Athens, normal school established at (1872), I, 589
Atkeson, Mary M., I, 679
Atkinson, Alexander, I, 425
Atkinson, George W., I, 561-687
Atlaptic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad, I, 483
Aurora, I, 185
Australian ballot bill, State senate passes, I, 560
Automatic licenses, increase of, I, 547
Averill, W. W. Union raids under (1863), I, 387
Averill Coal Company, I, 517
Avery, George D., I, 109
Avis, I, 429-430
Babcock Lumber and Boom Company, I, 476
Bailey, Ann, sketch of, I, 220
Bailey, John, I, 100
Bailey, Minister, I, 183
Ballangee, Isaac, I, 430
Ballardsville, I, 167
Baltimore & Ohio Railway, I, 135-136, 144; built to Wheeling (1852), 171; built to Cumberland (1842), 173; incorporation and organization of, 187; surveys for, 188, 189; opening of, to the Potomac (1832), 189; western extensions, 189-196; engineering obstacles between Cumberland and Wheeling, 192, 193; industrial revival along the line, 194, 195; reaches Wheeling (January 1, 1853), 196; Grafton-Parkersburg branch opened (June 1, 1857), 197-199; military importance of, in Civil War, 389-391; branches of, I, 445; absorbs Ohio River Railroad (1901), 470; its freight discrimination against West Virginia, I, 555
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, exemption from taxation I, 1, 611, 612
Bank of Phillipi (1855), I, 147
Bank of Summers, I, 430
Banks of Charleston, I, 436; of Huntington, 437; of Wheeling, 467; condition of (1919-21), I, 715
Baptist Church, I, 261-264, 274
Baptist churches, in 1850 and 1860, I, 276
Barbe, Waitman, I, 689, 692
Barbour county, first settlements in I, 102, 146-252; divided in Civil war, 372
Barbour County Jeffersonian, I, 314
Barboursville, I, 114, 239
Barnard, Henry, I, 637
Barnes, J. Walter, I, 705
Barter, I, 226
Bath (Berkeley Springs, I, 89)
Battelle, Gordon, I, 294
Batts, Thomas, I, 54
Beckley, I, 168, 240, 496
Beckleyville (Beckley), I, 168, 240, 496
Bedford county, I, 529
Beef cattle, I, 529
Beef industry, I, 529
Belington, I, 477
Belington and Beaver Creek Railroad, I, 480
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