Greetings from Morgantown in West Virginia.

Creator Corporate Names:

Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce (Morgantown, W. Va.)

Title:

Greetings from Morgantown in West Virginia.

Call Number:

P6255

Date:

1938

Description:

Pamphlet. Includes a timeline of important dates in Morgantown history including the establishment of a first boat yard, grist mill, store, hotel, church, courthouse, pottery, tannery, newspaper service, academy and female seminary, wagon road, wagon factory, newspaper, bank, iron foundry, chair factory, buggy factory, daily mail service, commercial coal mine, railroad service, telephone service, glass factory, shee and tin plate mill, rubber tire factory, knife and fork factory, broom factory, sewer tile factory, silk mill, mirror factory, and shirt and pajama factory. "The Morgantown Chamber of Commerce which presents you with this brochure, first functioned in September, 1784, when its members met with George Washington, at Pierpont's Farm, to discuss with him and plan for the development of Morgantown, the Monongahela Valley and Western Virginia. With those same objectives the organization is still functioning in 1938."

Subject Geographic:

Morgantown (W. Va.)--Description and travel., Morgantown (W. Va.)--History.