West Virginia and Regional History Center
Allegheny Highlands Project Records
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture
Baker, Barton S.
A&M 5279
Archival Resource Key
/repositories/2/resources/6965
44.50 Linear Feet
44 ft. 6 in. (23 record cartons, 15 in. each); (10 oversize record cartons, 17 in. each); (3 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 document case, 2.5 in.); (1 flat storage box, 1.5 in.)
1970-1982
West Virginia and Regional History Center / West Virginia University / 1549 University Avenue / P.O. Box 6069 / Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 / Phone: 304-293-3536 / URL: https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu/
English
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Conditions Governing Access
This collection includes social security numbers in boxes 1, 9, and 19; and personnel files in box 1. The collection also includes individual data pertaining to specific farms and farmers, which should only be reported in aggregate or as deidentified information. Due to both of these factors, this collection is restricted for 75 years after the date of record creation. Users may complete the Agreement for the Use of Restricted Materials to request access to any part of this collection prior to the expiration of the restriction.
The collection is stored off-site. Researchers should contact the West Virginia & Regional History Center prior to visiting to ensure materials are available.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Transfer from the WVU College of Agriculture and Forestry by Baker, Barton S., 2020-2021.
Biographical / Historical
The Allegheny Highlands Project (AHP) was a 10-year research project (1970-1980) conducted by the West Virginia University College of Agriculture with funding from the Rockefeller Foundation, which was particularly interested in community development through the AHP. The AHP was an effort to test the implementation of innovative technologies for the production and marketing of sheep and beef cattle in a mountainous area where agriculture had declined, the West Virginia Highlands. Comprehensive production, inventory, and financial data was collected on 85 farms representing nine West Virginia counties from 1971 through 1979. The data collected in a computer system called ELFAC helped farmers determine their tax status, credit rating, and generally to facilitate farm management decisions through the analysis of costs for labor, feed, machinery, capital turnover, and production.
A multidisciplinary team of specialists in agronomy, animal science, farm management, and veterinary medicine worked together to provide producers with a package of recommendations to increase production and/or profitability. The AHP had three Project Directors: Robert Maxwell, 1970-1975; Frank Woodson, 1975-1977; and Barton Baker, 1978-1979. An extensive overview and independent assessment of the Project can be found in Lee Balliet's report
<part>Stimulating Livestock Production in the Allegheny Highlands: An Economic, Social, and Attitudinal Evaluation of a University Pilot Program</part>, 1977. A draft copy is in Box 5 of this collection.-Text taken from papers by Barton S. Baker and Robert H. Maxwell and a report by Lee Balliet
Preferred Citation
[Description of item], [Box/folder number], Allegheny Highlands Project Records, A&M 5279, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Related Materials
A&M 1208 West Virginia Elfac Farm Record Program, Records
Scope and Contents
The Allegheny Highlands Project Records consist of the administrative files of the Allegheny Highlands Project (AHP), September 1970-July 1980, as well as records of farming activities of farm cooperators enrolled in the program. Administrative records for the operation of the AHP include planning documents, policies and correspondence, budgets and other financial documents, progress reports, vendor records, promotional materials including information sheets, and job applications and other personnel-related papers including WVU faculty reviews.
The records for individual farms include data sheets and computer printouts for each participant as well as aggregate data processed by a computer system called ELFAC. Data sheets submitted monthly and annually, financial records, and ELFAC printouts for each cooperator farm comprise the majority of the records in this collection. ELFAC printouts include tax data, detailed operating statements, cash summaries, and financial summaries by month (circa 1971-1975). The individual farm records also include soil and forage testing results with farm maps (circa 1971-1979). Counties represented by farmers include Randolph, Upshur, Lewis, Grant, Pocahontas, Tucker, Barbour, Harrison, and Pendleton.
Audiovisual materials include a promotional film and an audio recording of radio segments. Photographs show livestock, farms, administrators and participants, and field days.
The collection also includes some organizational records, including minutes, for Mountaineers for Rural Progress, 1971-1981.
Conditions Governing Use
The donor of this collection has transferred rights to the intellectual property they created to the Center. For more information regarding permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the West Virginia and Regional History Center.
Computer systems -- West Virginia
Farms and farming.
Agriculture -- West Virginia
Allegheny Highlands Project
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture
West Virginia University. College of Agriculture
West Virginia. ELFAC Farm Record Program
Baker, Barton S.
Mountaineers for Rural Progress
Personnel Files by Name of Staff and Faculty, Position Applications, PoliciesArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025851971-19801Budget and Assignment Structure, Funding Sources, Division Office Files, ELFAC Data and AdministrationArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025861974-19812AHP Cooperators Files, Alphabetical by Farm Name; Memorandum of Agreement, Other Business PapersArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025871970-19823Foundational Correspondence, Flyers, Newsletters, USDA Reports, Clippings, Overhead TransparenciesArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025881971-19754Progress Reports Made to Rockefeller Foundation, Proposals for Renewed Funding, AHP BookletsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025891970-19815Budget Items--Vendors, Expenses, Some Personnel (Includes 2 ledger books)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025901971-19816ELFAC Data Sheets by County and Farm NameArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/20259119797ELFAC Data Sheets Roughly by CountyArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025921970-19808Renewal Proposal, Lease Agreements, Assignment Structure, Other Administrative DocumentsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025931973-19799Completed Monthly Data Forms for ELFAC Records by Cooperators [Farmers] (Forms Include Data for Purchases, Vendors, Amount, and Dates)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/202594197710Completed Monthly Data Forms for ELFAC Records by Cooperators [Farmers] (Forms Include Data for Purchases, Vendors, Amount, and Dates)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/202595197811Completed Monthly Data Forms for ELFAC Records by Cooperators [Farmers] (Forms Include Data for Purchases, Vendors, Amount, and Dates)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/202596197612Completed Monthly Data Forms for ELFAC Records by Cooperators [Farmers] (Forms Include Data for Purchases, Vendors, Amount, and When)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/202597197513Completed Monthly Data Forms for ELFAC Records by Cooperators [Farmers] (Forms Include Data for Purchases, Vendors, Amount, and Dates)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2025981972, 197414Completed Monthly Data Forms for ELFAC Records by Cooperators [Farmers] (Forms Include Data for Purchases, Vendors, Amount, and Dates)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/202599197315Completed Monthly Data Forms for ELFAC Records by Cooperators [Farmers] (Forms Include Data for Purchases, Vendors, Amount, and Dates)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/202600197116Completed Monthly Data Forms for ELFAC Records by Cooperators [Farmers] (Forms Include Data for Purchases, Vendors, Amount, and Dates)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/202601197217Vendors' Invoices, Statements, Receipts for Items and Services, A-QArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026021972-198118Vendors' Invoices, Statements, Receipts for Items and Services, S-Z; Payroll for Farm LaborersArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026031970-198019Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026041970-197920Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026051970-197921Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026061970-197922Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026071970-197923Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026081970-197924Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026091970-197925Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026101970-197926Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026111970-197927Farm Records for Depreciation for TaxesArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026121970-197928Records Printed from the ELFAC Computer System for Each Cooperator/Farmer (Records Include Expenditures for Taxes, Operations, Etc., and Other Financial Summaries)Archival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026131970-197929Miscellaneous MaterialArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026141970-197430Scope and ContentsIncludes newspaper clippings, printed material, banquet information, a large folded map, photographic material, and audiovisual material.
Photographic material includes approximately 40 photographs (circa 1970s), some with written descriptions on the back, of livestock, men, men and women in lab coats, and farms. Also includes negatives and proofs. Also includes slides of Field Day 1973 September 30 (over 40 in 2 containers) and a second copy of Field Day (17 slides).
Audiovisual material includes a 6.35mm reel-to-reel tape, "Six on Sheep," six 5-minute public affairs programs; and a 5-minute silent color film (1973?) about a trip to Iowa involvng work with cattle and sheep.
Agreements, Reports, Annual Data Sheets by FarmArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026151974-197731Newsletters, Correspondence with Cooperators, Mountaineers for Rural Progress RecordsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026161971-198132Printed Ledgers from the West Virginia University Foundation for the Allegheny Highlands Project FundingArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026171976-197833Depreciation Records and Other Financial DataArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026181973-197934Soil Tests Managed by Barton Baker for Each Farm, including Maps and Lab ReportsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026191971-197835Soil Tests Managed by Barton Baker for Each Farm, including Maps and Lab ReportsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026201971-198136Soil and Forage Tests Managed by Barton Baker for Each Farm, including Maps and Lab ReportsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2026211973-197837Cancelled Checks and Check StubsArchival Resource Key/repositories/2/archival_objects/2033071972-198038Scope and ContentsThis bank account was owned by Robert Maxwell since at the time the University and the State of West Virginia could not reimburse for many purchases needed for the operation and efficiency of the Allegheny Highlands Project. Maxwell was reimbursed for personal funds expended for the Project.