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Hampshire Furnace Records

Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society
P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org

542 THL

Inventory created by Archives Staff 12/1986. Last revised 02/2022

ACCESS RESTRICTIONS: Collection is open to all researchers.

USE RESTRICTIONS: Restrictions may apply concerning the use, duplication, or publication of items in this collection. Consult a member of the archives staff for information concerning these restrictions. The user assumes all responsibility for identifying and satisfying any claimants of copyright.

EXTENT: 1 volume

DATE: 1812-1820

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Hampshire Furnace Records contains a daybook of customer accounts for the Hampshire Furnace on Middle Ridge in Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia) from 1812 to 1820. The records are hand written in ink and are somewhat faded and difficult to decipher.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: Hampshire Furnace was built sometime in the late 1700s near Middle Ridge by Edward McCarty. It was located by 12 miles south of Romney, Virginia (now West Virginia).

SEPARATED MATERIALS: The Clerk’s Office in Romney, West Virginia holds ledgers of the Hampshire Furnace from other years.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Maxwell, Hu and Swisher, H. L. History of Hampshire County, West Virginia, From its Earliest Settlements to the Presents. Morgantown, WV: A. Brown Bougher, Printers, 1897.

CITE AS: Hampshire Furnace Records, 542 THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

Day book – accounts for the Hampshire Furnace, Hampshire County, VA, 1812-1820, 1 item, leather-bound.