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Housing Profiles, Emily Petz, Lee Adams, Gerrit Anderson, Brian Pittelko, Kathleen Bolter
Housing Profiles, Emily Petz, Lee Adams, Gerrit Anderson, Brian Pittelko, Kathleen Bolter
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Woolfolk, Miriam Lamy, B. 1926 (Sc 3343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Woolfolk, Miriam Lamy, B. 1926 (Sc 3343), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3343. “Notes, Sketches of Kentucky’s Covered Bridges” by Miriam Woolfolk, a booklet compiling data on sixteen covered bridges in Kentucky accompanied by sketches of each, and a poem by the author. Includes a brochure, “Covered Bridges: A Vanishing Species,” offering programs by the author on covered bridges and other topics.
Ohio River Survey (Fa 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Ohio River Survey (Fa 656), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 656. Kentucky Folklife Program project titled: “Ohio River Survey,” which includes interviews, tape logs, photographs and other documentation of folklife along the Ohio River in Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Interviews may include a description of belief, traditional occupation, practice, craft, or tool, informant’s name, age, birth date, and address.
Finn, Marty (Fa 1089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Finn, Marty (Fa 1089), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project FA 1089. Student folk studies project titled: “A Collection of Folk Medicine,” which includes survey sheets and index cards describing the traditions and practices of folk medicine in Mason County, Kentucky. Sheets may include informant’s name and address, folk remedy, and text classification.
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Vance, Edward Richard, 1833-1902 (Mss 612), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 612. Correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs and family papers of Richard Vance, a Warren County, Kentucky native and U.S. Army officer. After his Civil War service, Vance spent his career at several posts in the South and on the frontier until his retirement in 1892.
Kentucky Folklife Program - County Files (Fa 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Folklife Program - County Files (Fa 748), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Collection FA 748. This collection contains material relating to 29 of Kentucky's 120 counties that was collected by Kentucky Folklife Program director Bob Gates. Collection materials includes items such as tourist brochures, newspaper articles, and county maps.
Thomason Political Folklore Collection (Fa 774), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Thomason Political Folklore Collection (Fa 774), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archive Project 774. The Thomason Political Folklore Collection includes projects conducted by students from a number of counties in the state of Kentucky and few from nearby states. The collection includes information pertaining to those counties political oral traditions. This project was conducted by students at Western Kentucky University for class credit.
Transparent Pie Festival - Maysville, Kentucky (Fa 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Transparent Pie Festival - Maysville, Kentucky (Fa 643), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Folklife Archives Project 643. The Transparent Pie Festival has been hosted annually since July 2006 by Magee's Bakery in Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky.
Kinney, Grover, 1885-1963 (Sc 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kinney, Grover, 1885-1963 (Sc 976), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 976. Letters to and receipts of Lewis County, Kentucky farmer, Grover Kinney.
Wood, Arthur Fox, 1829-1878 (Sc 2524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Wood, Arthur Fox, 1829-1878 (Sc 2524), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid and typescript (click on "Additional File" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 2524. Letter, 14 July 1851, from Arthur Fox Wood, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to “Tom” in Mason County, Kentucky. He compares Philadelphia (and its women) unfavorably to Mason County, reports on his medical studies, deplores abolitionism in the North, and asks about family and friends.
Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society (Mss 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society (Mss 374), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 374. Administrative papers, board minutes, correspondence, project files, and publications of the Kentucky Heritage Quilt Society, a state-wide membership organization of quilters that promotes better understanding of historic quilts and the design and construction of new quilts. Major projects include a collection of oral histories with Kentucky quilters and a survey of historic quilts from Kentucky.
Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Northcott Collection (Mss 40), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 40. Fifty-three diaries (1859-1918) and other writings of Henry Clay Northcott, 1822-1918, Methodist circuit preacher and farmer of northern Kentucky; correspondence (1870-1883) of his daughter, music teacher Kate N. Thomas, 1850-1889; and her husband, Bruce F. Thomas, 1853?-1882, lawyer of Vanceburg, Kentucky.
Sericulture Letter (Sc 1490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Sericulture Letter (Sc 1490), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 1490. Letter written in 1839 by Fox & Still of Dover, Kentucky, in Mason County, to Mr. Adam Beatty in Frankfort regarding sericulture in Kentucky. Beatty wrote extensively about Kentucky agriculture. The letter discusses the processes involved in sericulture and particularly the feeding of silkworms.
Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Mason County, Kentucky, Daniel I. Carey
Generalized Geologic Map For Land-Use Planning: Mason County, Kentucky, Daniel I. Carey
Map and Chart--KGS
This map is not intended to be used for selecting individual sites. Its purpose is to inform land-use planners, government officials, and the public in a general way about geologic bedrock conditions that affect the selection of sites for various purposes. The properties of thick soils may supercede those of the underlying bedrock and should be considered on a site-to-site basis. At any site, it is important to understand the characteristics of both the soils and the underlying rock.
Elbridge, Henry (Sc 1411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Elbridge, Henry (Sc 1411), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
MSS Finding Aids
Finding aid, scan and typescript (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 1411. Letter, 4 December 1845, of Henry Elbridge, Maysville, Kentucky, to his cousin E.G. Harel, Wadsworth, Ohio. He writes of his poor health and family matters, but also relates an interesting story about a young enslaved woman and how she was reared as a member of her owner's family.
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Mason County
"Resources for Economic Development: Maysville, [Kentucky]" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research in cooperation with the Maysville-Mason County Industrial Authority, December 1998. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.
0673: Janet Gibbs Reed Papers, 1813-1994, Marshall University Special Collections
0673: Janet Gibbs Reed Papers, 1813-1994, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection is composed of materials used by Janet Gibbs Reed to create an index to Mason County, Virginia (later West Virginia) death records. Additional materials in the collection are cemetery records from cemeteries in Mason County, Mason County Court orders, and an index to deaths in Pt. Pleasant, WV in the 1970s. The second box contains the completed indexes.
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Mason County
"Resources for Economic Development: Maysville, [Kentucky]" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research in cooperation with the Maysville-Mason County Chamber of Commerce and the Maysville-Mason County Industrial Authority, 1996. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.
High-Carbonate, Low-Silica, High-Calcium Stone In The High Bridge Group (Upper Ordovician), Mason County, North-Central Kentucky, Warren H. Anderson, Lance S. Barron
High-Carbonate, Low-Silica, High-Calcium Stone In The High Bridge Group (Upper Ordovician), Mason County, North-Central Kentucky, Warren H. Anderson, Lance S. Barron
Information Circular--KGS
The High Bridge Group (Middle Ordovician) of northeastern Kentucky is a major source of limestone and dolomite for construction, agricultural, and industrial stone. These industries require carbonate rocks of high chemical purity. Chemical analyses of foot-by-foot samples from a Mason County core show that three zones of high-calcium and several thick zones of high-carbonate and low-silica stone are present in the High Bridge at a mineable depth. Mason County is located in northeastern Kentucky, on the Ohio River, and offers river access to transportation to the metropolitan Covington-Cincinnati market and the northern portion of the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field for …
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Mason County
"Resources for Economic Development: Maysville, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research in cooperation with the Maysville-Mason County Chamber of Commerce and the Maysville-Mason County Industrial Authority, 1993. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Mason County
"Resources for Economic Development: Maysville, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning, in cooperation with the Maysville-Mason County Chamber of Commerce, 19991. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.
0518: Mason County, W.Va. Superior Court, 1831-1851, Marshall University Special Collections
0518: Mason County, W.Va. Superior Court, 1831-1851, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection is composed of one volume of county court records for Mason County, Virginia (now West Virginia) titled, “Mascon County Superior Court, Memorandum Book, Law and Chancery Commencing June 16th, 1831”. The records document the plaintiffs and defendants appearing before the county court, any rulings or penalties, and annotations accompanying the case lists as required.
0514: Early Records Of Cabell And Mason Counties, 1802-1933, Marshall University Special Collections
0514: Early Records Of Cabell And Mason Counties, 1802-1933, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection is composed of one volume of genealogical and family records related to Cabell and Mason Counties. The contents of the volume, according to the table of contents, are as follows: Thornburg Burial Place, Handley Burying Place, David Williams’ Family Bible, Old Wilson Bible, 1802, Churches [Guyandotte Methodist with list of burials], Old Will [Stephen Bartrum], Short History of Beale Family, “The Beal Family” from the Times Dispatch, Richmond, Va., November 6, 1908, History of the Frasher Family by Elder D. K. Frasher, 1933, and Supplementary Records (Frasher Family).
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Mason County
"Resources for Economic Development: Maysville,Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Maysville-Mason County Chamber of Commerce, 1989. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Mason County
"Resources for Economic Development: Maysville, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Maysville-Mason County Chamber of Commerce, 1986. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Mason County
"A Comprehensive Report on Maysville, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Maysville-Mason County Chamber of Commerce, 1984. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.
0368: Sterrett Family Records, 1807-1884, Marshall University Special Collections
0368: Sterrett Family Records, 1807-1884, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of fifteen items that are indentures of bargain and sale for land in Mason County, Virginia (later West Virginia). The items appear to have been collected by the Sterrett family as they were party to many of the deed transactions. Parties of the sales include Alexander E. Spotswood and Betsey Washington Spotswood, William Trotter and Mary Trotter, Walter Newman and Ellen Newman, Bushrod Washington Jr., Henry C./G. Dade and Catherine Dade, Phillip Long and Adam Long, Washington Steritt(?), and William Sterritt (sometimes Sterrett). The land was originally part of the George Washington military tract. This collection includes …
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Industrial Resources: Mason County - Maysville, Kentucky Library Research Collections
Mason County
"A Comprehensive Report on Maysville, Kentucky" prepared by the Kentucky Department of Economic Development, Division of Research and Planning in cooperation with the Maysville-Mason Chamber of Commerce, 1982. The report includes, but is not limited to, information about: population, labor market, local manufacturing, transportation, utilities, fuel, water, sewage, industrial sites, local government and services, taxes, educational and health facilities, housing, communication, recreation, natural resources, markets, and climate.
0315: Violette Somerville Machir, 1980, Marshall University Special Collections
0315: Violette Somerville Machir, 1980, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection contains parts one and two of `Revolutionary war soldiers in Mason County, West Virginia,' which is composed of worksheets prepared for the national headquarters of the Sons of the American Revolution Graves Registry Committee. The manuscript lists all known Revolutionary war soldiers buried in Mason County and approximate place of burial.
0279: Francis L. Mcculloch Typescript, University Special Collections
0279: Francis L. Mcculloch Typescript, University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
This collection consists of a copy of “The Family of Thomas Kincade of Mason County, West Virginia” manuscript by Francis L. McCulloch in 1979. It is an annotated lineage of Thomas Kincade’s descendants.