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This file consists of a newspaper article entitled "Preservation of Old Buildings Is Commended" by Ellen G. Anderson. The contents of the article are related to various Lexington and Rockbridge County Sites that had historic preservation efforts.

Scope and Contents From the Collection: Series 1 of this collection primarily covers the period from 1763 through Samuel McDowell Reid's death in 1869. There are also a few later items dealing chiefly with his estate. The bulk of the papers deals with business matters. Documents concern such matters as the James River and Kanawha Company, the North River Navigation Company, Washington College's relationship with the Society of the Cincinnati, slavery, and the financial dealings of John Robinson and the Hare family. Series 2 is...

Scope and Contents From the Series: James A. Quarles, Read, Andrew Reid, Samuel McDowell Reid, Richardson, Robinson, John Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pat Robertson, John Ruff, William Ruff, William Henry Ruffner, Schnare, S. M. Schoonmaker, Alfred Chandler Scott, Sellers Family, James Madison Senseney, Abner Terry Sheilds, John Camden Sheilds, Joseph Showalter, John Skinner, Sloan Family, Francis H. Smith, Henry Louis Smith, Beverly Stanard, John R. S. Sterrett, Styles, General Thomas Sumter, John O. Tardy, Lucian Thompson,...

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This box contains information about the Newcomb family, the Patton family, the Paxton family, the Pendleton family, the Poage family, the Quaintance family, the Randolph family, Andrew Reid, the Reblogel family, the Reynolds and McGuire families, the Roach family, the Salling family, John Saville, the Shafer family, the Shanks family, the Sheltman family, the Smith family, the Sterrett family, the Stuart family, and the Swope family.