Search Results
- IDNO:
- 022196
- Title:
- Confederate Soldier Reunion, Beckley, West Virginia
- Date:
- 1905/09
- Description:
- Confederate soldier reunion in Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va. Front row, from left to right: D. P. L. Maynor; Captain Stephen Adams of Lynchburg, Va. and former commonwealth attorney for Raleigh County; Alfred Hurt; James Anderson Gunnoe (lost his leg at the Battle of Cedar Creek); J. W. Sweeney; and Joshua Griffith. Back row, from left to right: A. J. Hutchinson; J. E. F. Miller of Sand Branch, Raleigh County; John Prince of Beckley; C. W. Tolley; a veteran named Mann from Summers County, and a non-veteran also named Mann. Captain Adams commanded Company A of the 30th Virginia Battalion, second of two companies organized in Raleigh County.
- IDNO:
- 022197
- Title:
- Raleigh House Hotel, Beckley, W. Va.
- Date:
- 1882
- Description:
- The second Raleigh House Hotel in Beckley, W.Va., at Main and North Kanawha Streets. Operated by John S. Hull.
- IDNO:
- 022201
- Title:
- Mansion of E. E. White, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Description:
- Mansion of E. E. White, the founder of E. E. White Coal Company. Built ca. 1909.
- IDNO:
- 022207
- Title:
- Maria Prince Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Description:
- Maria Prince Beckley of Philadelphia, wife of James John Beckley, first clerk of the United States House of Representatives and first Librarian of Congress. Maria Prince Beckley was also the mother of Alfred Beckley, founder of Beckley and Raleigh County. She died in 1833 in Lexington, Kentucky.
- IDNO:
- 022211
- Title:
- Alfred Beckley, Raleigh County, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1870-1888
- Description:
- Alfred Beckley (1802-1888), the founder of the town of Beckley and Raleigh County, W.Va.
- IDNO:
- 022215
- Title:
- Wildwood, Home of Alfred Beckley Senior, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Description:
- Home of Alfred Beckley Sr., founder of the town of Beckley and Raleigh County, W.Va. Built in the 1830s.
- IDNO:
- 022219
- Title:
- Town of Fitzpatrick, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1925-1935
- Description:
- The town of Fitzpatrick, Raleigh County, W.Va., a lumber mill town which no longer exists.
- IDNO:
- 022221
- Title:
- Headstone of Kenneth Shadrick, American Legion Cemetery, Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1980-2000
- Description:
- Headstone of Kenneth Shadrick, the first United States soldier killed in the Korean Conflict.
- IDNO:
- 022222
- Title:
- American Legion Cemetery, Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia
- Date:
- 1980-2000
- Description:
- View of headstones at the American Legion Cemetery in Beckley, W.Va.
- IDNO:
- 022223
- Title:
- Still Raid in Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia
- Date:
- 1930-1934
- Description:
- Still raid exhibited on the courthouse lawn in Beckley, W.Va.
- IDNO:
- 022224
- Title:
- Parade, Main Street, Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia
- Date:
- 1920-1930
- IDNO:
- 022229
- Title:
- Political Rally during 1920 Presidential Campaign, Beckley, Raleigh County, W.Va.
- Date:
- 1920
- Description:
- Political rally on Main Street in Beckley. Regards the 1920 presidential race of Governor J. M. Cox of Ohio against Warren G. Harding.
