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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], James R. Moreland Papers, A&M 0870, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Business and personal papers of a Morgantown attorney and antiquarian. The boxed materials consist of legal papers, abstracts of titles and other items relating to Moreland's law practice; business and personal correspondence, records of Morgantown and Monongalia County corporations, including the Morgantown Hotel Company, Union Investment Company, Bank of Masontown, and the LaMar Coal Company.

The bound volumes include a receipt book for shares in the Monongalia County Farmer's Company of Virginia, 1815-1818; Deckers Creek Sand Company; a ledger (1877-1901) of Huston & Demain, contractors and builders, Morgantown; and letter books and business records of various law firms with which Moreland was associated.

Collection also contains correspondence, property survey maps, and legal papers concerning West Virginia's acquisition of Coopers Rocks land.

Related Material

870, 1146

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Account books
• Bank of Masontown
• Banks - Bank of Masontown.
• Banks and banking
• Builders and contractors.
• Coopers Rock Foundation
• Coopers Rock State Forest (W. Va.)
• Deckers Creek Sand Company
• Deckers Creek Sand Company.
• Gas industry
• Hotels
• Huston and Demain
• LaMar Coal Company
• Lawyers - letters and papers.
• Maps.
• Mills and mill-work
• Monongalia County (W. Va.)
• Monongalia Farmer's Company of Virginia.
• Morgantown (W. Va.)
• Morgantown Hotel Company
• Union Investment Company