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Jim Surkamp, County Commissioner
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VIDEO HISTORIES :

Public Information over 200 Jefferson County Videos available at YouTube

in random order . . .
YEAR
TITLE
SELECTION
COMMENTS
 
1995
Don't Mean Nothin
text    audio
The script and its origins with
individual audio links to:

   - Interview and Introduction
   - Arriving in Nam
   - Hanging Together
   - Turning Point
   - Duke's Farewell
   - What Would Herb Do
   - November Evenings
   - As I Am
1941
Charles Town Firemen
Part 1
Citizen's Fire Company responds to a call from their Washington Street Station
1900
Danske Dandridge
Rosebrake
Her love for her garden around 1900 and her home, Rosebrake, just outside Shepherdstown on Route 480, had over a hundred varieties of roses. Her poems, garden articles and historical writings can be found by going to: http://justjefferson.com/23danske.htm http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/dandridge/index2.htm
1862
Antietam Wounded in Shepherdstown
Shepherdstown residents cared for the wounded from the Battle of Antietam three miles away in September, 1862. Photos and script are the text of the memoirs of Nettie Lee and Mary Bedinger Mitchell. Narrators are Margie Didden, Barbara Wheeler and Jim Surkamp
1986
Shepherdstown Summer
(1) begins with shot from space a view of German Street looking west from Princess around 1890, McMurran Hall, the Thomas Shepherd Mill operating, and the last day of Dick Schlack's gas station business.
1986
Shepherdstown Summer
(3) Harper's Ferry, Critten Hallow String Band, The Seldom Scene, ballet, a circus trapeze at Morgans Grove, white water rafting, and soccer game at Morgan's Grove
1986
Shepherdstown Summer

(4) Nick Blanton making & playing one of his hammered dulcimers cutting to Shepherdstown Day Care, a Town -College day at Shepherd with Ken Bethany as clown

1987
Shepherdstown Summer
Maryland Symphony at Anteitam, July 4th, Rumsey celebration at Entler, inside The Doll's House, Bjorn Bergman, and John Lowe on trolley
1941
Charles Town Film
The women's club, Grover Goode shop and employees, Zion Episcopal Church, Mayor of town, Town police
1941
Charles Town Film
The Spirit of Jefferson employees, old woman with parking meter, Newberry's employees,
1941
Charles Town Film
German Beer Company, Lions Club members, John Brown markers, school kids, Whites' groceries' employees
1941
Charles Town Film
Boy Scouts and Linden Bush and employees of the Halltown Paperboard Company
1941
Charles Town Film
Harpers Ferry John Brown fort, the rivers, the church, McDonald insurance company, three gas stations in Charles Town and their employees
1941
Charles Town Film
All younger school kids and their teachers
1941
Charles Town Film
People from Penney's store, the American Legion and teachers and students at Wright Denny
1941
Charles Town Film
Essotane and Slim Wageley, Happy Retreat, Harewood, St. Georges Chapel, Methodist Church recessional
1941
Charles Town Film
Members of the Kiwanis Club at lunch. Jonas Funkhouserer, a school teacher, is incorrectly confused with R.J. Funkhouser, the horse-breeder and entrepreneur
1941
Charles Town Film
Post Office staff, Town Mayor, Red Cross women, employees of People's Supply at work
1941
Charles Town Film
A lot of the racetrack, people at the Presbyterian Church and employees of Community Oil
1941
Charles Town Names Film
This segment of the hour long film includes fireman responding to a call and woman at the Perfection Garment Company
1941
Charles Town Film
A drive thru the downtown, from an airplane over the town, the racetrack and Harpers Ferry, Perfection Garment Company, and firemen - incorrectly refers to Ranson
1941
Charles Town Film
This hour long film contains lots of people of the town with their names added. The film is an hour long and is included here in segments parts 1 thru 13
1965
Charles Town's
Page Jackson School
Photos and last names of the last graduating class
1940
Charles Town's
Page Jackson School

Preachers and Teachers - Remembering The Page-Jackson Era - interview at the Holiday Inn and Page Jackson Reunion, July, 2001.

1859
Charles Town and Martin Delany
More on this remarkable man from Charles Town at:
http://www.justjefferson.com/13Delany.htm
http://www.justjefferson.com/14Blake.htm Major web site with his writings and timeline at: http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm
1812
Charles Town and Martin Delany
More on this remarkable man from Charles Town at:
http://www.justjefferson.com/13Delany.htm
http://www.justjefferson.com/14Blake.htm Major web site with his writings and timeline at: http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm
1990
Charles Town Racing
The last segment on Charles Town racing up to the early 1990s.
1970
Charles Town Racing
Horse-racing thru the 1970s
1940
Charles Town Racing
Horse racing in Charles town up to the early 1990s covers the time thru the 1940s thru 1959, when Shenandoah Downs was built.
1930
Charles Town Racing
This is part one of the history of horse racing in Charles town, West Virginia. It tells about racing in the 18th century in Charles Town, the horse show grounds in the early 19th century, A.J. Boyle founding the track in the 1930s.
1906
Charles Town's Cave
People have been talking about the underground lake and cave in Charles Town and Ranson for over a hundred years.
1920
Charles Town's Courthouse
This describes how the courthouse was rebuilt after the Civil War and how it was the center of activity thru into the 1920s.
1864
Charles Town's Courthouse
This segment picks up around 1864 with the drawings of James E. Taylor and tells of the reconstruction of the courthouse's walls and roof.
1922
Charles Town's Courthouse
This fifteen-minute video tells the story of the only courthouse in America to have had two treason trials. The first was of John Brown and his raiders; the second was of the leaders of the Blair Mountain coal mining rebellion in 1922. Singing Ardyth Gilbertson
1959
Charles Town
Views of baseball, people at Shenandoah Downs, the County Fair, horses, Washington Street
1941
Charles Town Names
From the Charles Town film made in 1941, these still images are of women who worked at the Perfection Garment Company with their names, where possible.
1921
Out of Darkness - Miners' Rebellion
United Mine Workers - in West Virginia This great 100-minute film by Barbara Kopple is available on VHS or DVD from http://www.umwa.org.

COMPILED BY
Jim Surkamp

6.26.2009

 

 

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