Antebellum (1800-1860)
General and Unclassified
African Americans and Slavery
Business and Industry
Education
Exploration and Settlement
Government and Politics
Institutions
Religion
Transportation
Individuals
General and Unclassified
Antebellum Photos and Illustrations
Jefferson County 49ers Prospect for Gold in
California (Time Trail)
Occupations in Virginia, 1860
African Americans and Slavery
A Brief History of African-Americans in West Virginia
A Timeline of African-American History of West Virginia
Antebellum Slavery
Henry Ruffner's Address to the People of West
Virginia
Martinsburg Slave Escapes on the Underground
Railroad (Time Trail)
"Slavery in Present West Virginia in 1860," by Barbara Louise Emmerth (West Virginia History)
African-American Population of Present-Day West Virginia Counties
in 1860
Business and Industry
Antebellum Industry
Early Industry in Kanawha County
Establishment of the Harpers Ferry Armory (Time Trail)
The Kanawha Salt Company (Time Trail)
Anne Royall's Description of Burning Spring and the Kanawha Valley
Salt
Industry
"A Nineteenth-Century Mill Village: Virginius Island,
1800-1860," by Mary Johnson (West Virginia History)
"Booster Ethos: Community, Image and Profit in Early
Clarksburg," by L. Diane Barnes (West Virginia History)
Education
Antebellum Education
Academies in West Virginia
Alexander Campbell and Bethany College (Time Trail)
Exploration and Settlement
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Rural Life
"Folk Medicine," by Peggy S. Fisher (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Social and Industrial Life in Early Settlements
Government and Politics
Staunton Convention of 1816
Henry Clay at Lewisburg
1829-30 Virginia Constitutional
Convention
Institutions
Incorporation of Wheeling Hospital (Time Trail)
"Wheeling's Athenaeum: 1854-1868," by Edward L. Phillips (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Establishment of Weston State Hospital (Time Trail)
Religion
Alexander Campbell Immigrates to America (Time Trail)
Sources on Alexander Campbell
"A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ in West Virginia," by Terrance Hamm (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Transportation
Antebellum Transportation
James Rumsey Demonstrates His Steamboat (Time Trail)
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company Incorporated (Time Trail)
Construction of the Staunton and Parkersburg
Turnpike
Completion of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge (Time Trail)
B & O Railroad Completed to Wheeling (Time Trail)
Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Opening Celebration
Individuals
Harman and Margaret Blennerhassett
"The Cranes of Greenbrier County," by Diane Crane Benelli, et al (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
Patrick Gass
John George Jackson Escapes a Deadly Fire (Time Trail)
Henry Ruffner
"Dr. Cyrus Alexander Rupert, 1810-1891" (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)
"Hugh Paul Taylor: Historian and Mapmaker," by David Scott Turk (West Virginia History)
Sources on Tecumseh
"Famed Tecumseh Was a West Virginian"
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