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Rockbridge Historical Society

 Organization

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

African-American Heritage Exhibit materials

 Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0001
Scope and Contents

This collection contains research materials gathered during 2001 for an African American heritage exhibit put on by Rockbridge Historical Society. It also contains a booklet from 125th anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Lexington, Va.

Dates: Inclusive 1992-2001 approximate

African Americans

 File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents Folder includes four items: "A Community's Stories" article from The News Gazzette concerning an exhibit by the Rockbridge Historical Society; a list of 'Old Lexington Colored People,' from the early 1900's from Leslie Lyle Campbell's notes; information on a group of slaves from Caroline County (a page copied from Colonial Caroline: a History of Caroline County, Virginia); and a letter to Special Collections concerning information on the holdings of records concerning black history in...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1609 - 2016

Brady Survey, 1947-11-18

 File — RHS Collection #0078, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

This file consists of materials related to surveying done in the town of Lexington by Douglas E. Brady.

Dates: Other: 1947-11-18

Campbell House, 1994-07-04

 File — Box 1, Folder: 25
Scope and Contents

This file consists of two copies of terms of agreement and contract for repair on the Campbell house located at 101 E. Washington Street, as well as a letter from Allie Waddell Hedges to the Rockbridge Historical Society concerning the same house.

Dates: 1994-07-04

Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0409
Scope and Contents This collection contains thirty-four digital files given to Washington and Lee University by Edwin L. Dooley, Jr. Thirty-two contain 2-D renderings of Lexington's Main Street in 1867, which he created for the 2013 Rockbridge Historical Society exhibit. Some of these files contain the renderings themselves while others are photographs of the exhibit panels, which are composed of a rendering accompanied by a historic or modern photograph of the same geographic location and some informational...
Dates: 2013; Other: Years of the subjects of the digital files; Lexington Main Street in 1867 and the 1860 and 1870 census for the Town of Lexington.

Fire, 1914

 File — RHS Collection #0078, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents

This file includes materials related to the fire that damaged Lexington in the early 20th century. Includes photographs, a newspaper article, and handwritten notes from Rockbridge Historical Society.

Dates: 1914

Rockbridge Historical Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0009
Scope and Contents This collection consists of various records, such as meeting minutes, papers, and other printed materials, such as newspaper clippings. It contains several copies of a pamphlet of bicentennial historic dates that occured within Rockbridge County and the city of Lexington as compiled by Rockbridge Historical Society president Charles W. Turner. It also contains a typescript from 1956, entitled The River Crossing at Jordan's Point by Martha Ann Spencer, that was submitted to the society's...
Dates: Inclusive 1939-1978 Approximate

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  • Subject: Virginia -- Lexington X

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Archival Object 4
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African Americans 2
Building -- Details -- Drawings 1
Census 1
Church history 1
Fire 1