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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Frederick B. Lambert, Collector and Compiler, Papers, A&M 1244, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Historical and genealogical typescripts, clipping scrapbooks, copies of family and court records, and personal recollections of the Guyandotte Valley area of Cabell, Wayne, and Lincoln counties compiled by F.B. Lambert. Several typescripts deal with the religious institutions of the area, the development of road, river, and rail transportation, and the spread of education in the valley. Other materials deal with the frontier and Indian history of the Guyandotte country and the collection includes a school commissioner's book for 1819. Barbourville school record book, 1863, and a minute book of the Barboursville Common Council, 1950-1911.

Related Material

1244, 1270, 1281

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Academies (Private schools)
• Barboursville (W. Va.)
• Barboursville Common Council
• Cabell County (W. Va.)
• Court records
• Education
• Education. SEE ALSO Schools.
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Guyandotte (Huntington, W. Va.)
• Guyandotte Navigation Company
• Guyandotte Turnpike Company
• Guyandotte Valley.
• Indians of North America
• Lambert, Fred B., 1873-1967
• Lincoln County (W. Va.)
• Politics and government.
• Railroads
• Rivers and river valleys.
• Schools. SEE ALSO Academies
• Transportation
• Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads.
• Wayne County (W. Va.)