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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Watson Family Papers, A&M 0630, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Personal papers of the Watson family in Marion County, including a genealogy of the Watson and Haymond families, newspaper clippings of weddings, obituaries, social and business activities, and European travel. Mention is made of coal mining development in Marion County, strikes, labor meetings, conservation, and improvement of farming practices. There is material on politics, industrial development, early iron mining, Marion county history, the Barrickville covered bridge, Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike, and the Presbyterian Church in Fairmont.

Related Material

630, 1815, 1949

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Agriculture
• Barrackville Covered Bridge.
• Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike.
• Church buildings
• Coal mining.
• Covered bridges
• Education
• Environmentalism.
• Europe
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Genealogy
• Hayman family
• Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor
• Land.
• Marion County (W. Va.)
• Mining. SEE ALSO Coal mining.
• Morgantown (W. Va.)
• Travel accounts.
• Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads.
• Watson family