Rare original 1880 Charles Town WEST VIRGINIA newspaper JEFFERSON COUNTY WV -  inv # 1K-408

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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the Virginia Free Press (Charles Town - Jefferson County - West Virginia ) dated in 1880.  This newspaper contains national and international news as well as LOCAL Charles Town, WV news and ads from 1880, 140 years ago and just 15 years after the end of the Civil War.

Charles Town, officially the City of Charles Town, is a city in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, and is also the county seat.

Jefferson County was formed in 1801 as Charles Washington had anticipated. The county court house stands on one of the lots he donated, as did the jail until 1919 when it was demolished to be replaced by the post office.

On October 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown and his followers raided the Federal arsenal at nearby Harpers Ferry, seven miles east of Charles Town. The insurrection was ultimately put down and John Brown was tried for treason in the town's Jefferson County court house. On December 2, 1859, he was hanged in Charles Town at the Gibson-Todd House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

During the first two years of the American Civil War, the front lines of the Union and Confederate armies in the area fluctuated and the town frequently changed hands during the military engagements in the surrounding areas with the town first occupied by Confederate troops, then Union troops, then back to Confederate until 1863 when Union troops occupied the town on a permanent basis for the remainder of the war.

In 1883, the Valley Telephone Company was incorporated in West Virginia and began installing telephone lines throughout Jefferson County. The company's main office was in Charles Town.

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