Preston County Historical Society

Annual membership is $7.00 and includes our newsletter,
Now ... and long ago, which is published twice yearly.

You can join our society, or purchase our publications by writing to:
Catherine Burke
Post Office Box 307
Rowlesburg, WV 26425

The Four Goff Brothers of Western Virginia, 2003
Masthof Press, 401 pages, hardbound, every name index
by the Phillip Goff & Roy L. Lockhart

Building on 40 years of research by Lockhart, the authors set out to uncover and examine every contemporary reference to these four pioneering brothers. The nearly 1400 documents found from 1766 to 1833 pertaining to the Goff brothers include some never-before-published items. Included are 260 grandchildren born between 1792 and 1861. There are extensive footnote references.

This book is available for $30.00 plus $3.50 for shipping and handling.
West Virginia residents must add $1.80 for sales tax.
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Preston County, WV History, 1979
514 pages, hardbound, enamel paper
by the Preston County Historical Society

Hundreds of Preston County Family Histories, Genealogies, & Biographies.
Hundreds of Preston County Photos.

Third Printing, 2001 by Walsworth Publishing.
This book is available for $65.00 plus $4.50 for shipping and handling.
West Virginia residents must add $3.90 for sales tax.

Pioneers of Preston
The Histories of Pioneer Family Groups of Preston County, WV, 2001,
56 pages, softbound, compiled by Janice Cale Sisler

49 articles originally published in the Preston County Journal 1907-08 as a forerunner to the 1913 Preston County History by Oren F. Morton. Each article featured one family. Families included: Albright, Armstrong, Ashburn, Ashby, Barb, Beatty, Beavers, Beerbower, Bell, Benson, Bishoff, Blaney, Boger, Bolyard, Bower, Boylan, Braham, Brandon, Britton, Brown, Bryte, Cale, Carrico, Carroll, Chidester, Clark, Cobun, Connor, Crawford, Cress, Cupp, Cuppett, DeBerry, Elliott, Elsey, Ervin, Evans, Everly, Falkenstine, Field, Frankhouser, Fries, Gandy, Graham, Gribble, Matlick, Spurgeon, & Trembly. Permission to reprint these articles was given by the current owners of the Preston County Journal with the proceeds to benefit the Preston County Historical Society.

This book is available for $10.00 plus $1.50 for shipping and handling.
West Virginia residents must add $0.60 for sales tax.

Preston County WV (then VA) Records 1853-1860
Extracted from microfilm by Roy L. Lockhart

Births 1853-1859
Marriages 1853-1860 (1859 missing)
Deaths 1853-1859

This book is available for $20.00 plus $2.00 for shipping and handling.
West Virginia residents must add $1.20 for sales tax.

Preston County - Images of America, 1998,
by Charles A. Thomas, and published by Arcadia.

An extraordinary collection of vintage images gathered from the History House Archives of the Preston County Historical Society. They cover the period from 1890 to the mid-1900s and portray the pioneer era, the early commercial and industrial ventures, turn-of-the-century schools and mills, and the trains and railroaders that made the area prosper in the late 1800s.

This book is available for $20.00 plus $2.00 for shipping and handling.
West Virginia residents must add $1.20 for sales tax.

This page was last updated on 1 June 2004.

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