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English
Abstract
A census for agriculture and manufacturers conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau for the counties now a part of West Virginia.
The two earlier census contain no surveys of manufacturing (see related materials note in this record). The two later schedules
contain one reel for each survey on manufacturing. The 1880 census contains twice the number of reels of the 1870 census.
Each type of survey has a printed form questionnaire. For agriculture, enumerations are requested for land acreage, type of
livestock and dairy products, types of crops, particularly grains and forage, and cash value of the farm. The manufacturing
index form gives the name of company, type of service or product, type of power source, types of machinery, types of materials
utilized, labor age and wage statistics and quantity of production performed.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], West Virginia Census of Agriculture and Manufacturing, A&M 0228, West
Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
For manufacturing censuses for Virginia in 1850 and 1860, see our W-Microfilm collections, W-2480 and W-2481.
W-2480: 1850 U.S. Census 7th Schedule 5 Products of Industry, Fiscal Year 1849-1850 Vol. 1 and 2, Accomack-Wythe Counties,
Schedule 6 Social Statistics, 1849-1850 Fiscal Year
W-2481: 1860 U.S. Census 8th Schedule 4 Products of Agriculture Vol. 5, Rappahannock-York Counties, Products of Industry
Schedule 5, Accomack-York Counties, Fiscal Year 1859-1860