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Mining Stock Certificate
This stock certificate certified that P.P. Porter owned ten shares of stock in the Mineral City Mining, Manufacturing and Land Company. He bought each of these shares at a price of one hundred dollars. Stocks such as this one ensured capital for the…
Tags: Mining
Liquor License Bond
E.A. Whitlock and J.A. Whitlock were required to post a surety bond in the amount of $500 in order to have an establishment as a retail liquor dealer. Dozens of such establishments were established in and around Mineral City, including dozens of…
Tags: Mining
Slave Auction Advertisement
This is the advertisement and its receipt for a slave auction. Mr. Robert M. Kent states that he is auctioning off nineteen slaves, consisting of men, boys, girls, women and children. He states that at the same time, he will also auction off thirteen…
Tags: slavery
Mineral Play 1894
This is a flier for a night of entertainment at Odd Fellow's Hall in Mineral. There was to be a band playing and the play "Childhood," consisting of two acts of charades. Admission was charged at twenty five cents for adults and fifteen cents for…
Tags: Mining
John Mercer Langston
John Mercer Langston was born on December 14, 1829 to a freed slave, Lucy Langston, and a white man of “extreme old age," Ralph Quarles. At the time of Langston's birth, Virginia law specified that all children would be born into a “free or bond…