Taken by Martha Burr Holingsworth and her family on a 1966 visit to the Peter Burr House. To view the photos and her letter search the Bibliography using Author = Hollingsworth. 

The Jefferson County Historic Landmarks is currently digitizing the holdings of the Middleway Conservancy under a grant from the West Virginia Humanities Council. The collection includes Civil War letters, photographs, oral history interviews, ledgers, and other important historic materials. Check back and watch the online collection grow!
To view materials digitized thus far, search the Bibliography using Source = Middleway. 

You can view all of the photographs taken in the 2005 Countywide survey and the 2011 Shepherd University Survey of Middleway and Summit Point by using the Search Database feature.  Set yout search parameters to Medium = Photographs and Topics = Architecture.

To view only the former survey add the search parameter Author = Taylor.  For the Shepherd U. survey, use Author = Alexander, Keith.

 

The 1810 - 1880 Censuses of Jefferson County, Virginia, are now searchable.  Go to Search | Search 1810 (or other census) on the Menu bar.  Click the page number of a record to view the original census page.  The contents of this and other censuses are described in more detail on the Search | Search Census page.

 

Go the the bottom of the Search Census page to compare population growth in Jefferson County (West) Virginia with that of Berkeley and Morgan Counties (West) Virginia, Clarke, Loudoun, and Frederick Counties in Virginia, and Frederick and Washington counties, in Maryland.

 

The map graphically displays the Virginius Island information contained in the deeds as well as tentative locations of structures described in Snell's History of the Island of Virginius: 1751 to 1870. read more ...