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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Felix G. Hansford Papers, A&M 1192, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

The papers of the President of Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike, charted in 1837, consist of land grants, deeds, and indentures; legal papers; turnpike correspondence, stock, books, contracts, and reports to the Board of Public Works, the Virginia Legislature, and stockholders.

Some of the correspondence deals with the Washington Temperance Society, church activities in the Kanawha Valley, the salt industry along the Kanawha Salines, the James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company, Whig politics in 1840, and family affairs. There is a manuscript map of the Kanawha River from below the Clifton to Point Pleasant. Correspondents include Alfred Beckley, James W. Pryor, Claudius Crozet, and George W. Summers.

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Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Beckley, Alfred, 1802-1888
• Church buildings
• Clifton.
• Crozet, Claudius, 1790-1864
• Frontier and pioneer life
• Giles, Fayette and Kanawha Turnpike Company
• Hansford, Felix G.
• James River and Kanawha Turnpike Company
• Justices of the peace
• Kanawha County (W. Va.)
• Kanawha River (W. Va.)
• Kanawha Valley.
• Land.
• Mills and mill-work
• Point Pleasant (Mason County, W. Va.)
• Politics and government.
• Rivers and river valleys.
• Salt industry and trade
• Summers, George W. (George William), 1804-1868
• Temperance
• Transportation
• Turnpikes. SEE ALSO Roads.
• Virginia. Board of Public Works
• Washington Temperance Society
• Whig Party (U.S.)