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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Salt Sulphur Springs Records, A&M 0512, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Daybooks, ledgers, journals, letter books and reports. Primarily concern the various business enterprises of the Salt Sulphur Springs Company including general store, hotel, stage line, telegraph company and farm. Also a letter book of the Oriental Powder Mills, Charleston, W.Va, of which John W.M. Appleton was agent; general store daybooks of E.D. Ballard; hotel and general store cash and daybooks of Erskine and Caruthers from Lexington and Salt Sulphur Springs. Records of the M.C.C.C. and O. Company of Waldingfield and Mill Creek, W.Va., and Mill Creek School records and Sweet Springs Gristmill and hotel records.

Related Material

85, 512, 1377

Separated Material

Volumes originally tagged #1 and #2 separated to A&M 92 because they deal more particularly with John W. M. Appleton.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913
• Ballard, E.D.
• Charleston (W. Va.)
• Education
• Farms and farming.
• General stores
• Hotels
• Mill Creek School
• Mill Creek.
• Mills and mill-work
• Monroe County (W. Va.)
• Oriental Powder Mills (Charleston, W. Va.)
• Oriental Powder Mills.
• Salt Sulphur Springs (W. Va.)
• Salt Sulphur Springs Company
• Salt Sulphur Springs Hotel
• Schools. SEE ALSO Academies
• Transportation