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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">5.8 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">Summary: 5 ft. 10 in. (85 ledgers)</extent>
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    <unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1819/1932" type="inclusive">1819-1932</unitdate>
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Salt Sulphur Springs Records, A&amp;M 0512, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>85, 512, 1377</p>  </relatedmaterial>
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<p>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.</p>  </scopecontent>
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<p>Volumes originally tagged #1 and #2 separated to A&amp;M 92 because they deal more particularly with John W. M. Appleton.</p>  </separatedmaterial>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81055346" source="lcsh">Charleston (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname source="ingest">Mill Creek.</geogname>
    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81018751" source="lcsh">Monroe County (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <geogname source="local_LC">Salt Sulphur Springs (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject authfilenumber=" http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85000413" source="lcsh">Account books</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040989" source="lcsh">Education</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Farms and farming.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85053768" source="lcsh">General stores</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85062487" source="lcsh">Hotels</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85085422" source="lcsh">Mills and mill-work</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Oriental Powder Mills.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Schools. SEE ALSO Academies</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85137027" source="lcsh">Transportation</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Salt Sulphur Springs Company</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Salt Sulphur Springs Hotel</corpname>
    <persname source="ingest">Ballard, E.D.</persname>
    <persname source="ingest">Appleton, John W. M., 1832-1913</persname>
    <corpname source="ingest">Mill Creek School</corpname>
    <corpname source="ingest">Oriental Powder Mills  (Charleston, W. Va.)</corpname>
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