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Language
English
Abstract
Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated
a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839;
the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee,
1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers, A&M 1604, West
Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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