The following items are available at the Ruth Enlow Library, 6 N. Second Street, Oakland, Md. 21550:

Federal Census Records 1810-1920 except 1890 which was destroyed

• For Allegany County, 1810-1870-Included Garrett County until 1872.
• For Garrett County, 1880-1920
• For West Virginia Counties of Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, Preston and Tucker.
• For Fayette and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania - 1850 Census only.
• Special Agricultural and Manufacturing Census - 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 - Allegany and Garrett County-great place to find out what your ancestors grew to feed their large families....Irish potatoes were a big crop in 1860.
• 1890 Special census for Civil War Union veterans and their widows.

Newspaper Files

• Republican Newspaper files, 1877-1993.
• Mountain Democrat Newspaper, 1887, 1888, 1898, 1900, 1901

Miscellaneous Records

• Mortality Schedules - 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880
• Mineral County WVA wills and births from 1866-1869
• Preston County WVA births - 1868 -1906, 1926 -1937 and deaths - 1868 - 1920
• Tucker County WVA - wills
• Other records from Hampshire, Hardy, Preston, and Tucker County West Virginia available in book form.

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