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Scope and Contents This file consists of two copies of introductory notes to the Rockbridge Heritage House tour for the years 1969 and 1970. The convered houses in the notes have historical backgrounds. The following houses appear in the notes: Alexander-Withrow House, VMI Superintendent's Quarters, Stono, Clifton, Maple Hill, Timber Ridge Church, Horatio Thompson House, The Red House, Mulberry Grove, New Providence Presbyterian Church, Briarwood, Bellevue, Maxwelton, Level Loop, Windy Glen, Cedar Grove,...

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This box contains folders on George Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Chauncy Jerome, Abner Nash Johnson, Mary Eddie Scott Jones, John Jordan, Charles Irwin Junkin, and William F. Junkin.

Scope and Contents This folder contains a copy of the magazine "The Iron Worker," dated August 1957, with a biographical piece on John Jordan. Also included is a photocopy of a November 7, 1873 Lexington Gazette article, giving the particulars of the blowing up of the Jordan Furnace in Amherst County, on October 28, 1873. Two men were killed, Henry Watkins and a black man, by the name of Tom Watson. An excerpt of this newspaper article, from the Virginia Cavalcade, Summer 1973, is also included in this...

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File includes a copy of a magazine titled "The Iron Worker" as well as handwritten and typewritten copies of "A Sketch of Colonel John Jordan (1777-1854). Also includes a paper, "John Jordan, Virginia Builder," by Marshall Fishwick, and a photocopy of Summer 1973 Virginia Cavalcade article, "John Jordan: Builder and Entrepreneur," by L. Moody Simms, Jr.

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This box contains folders on George Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Chauncy Jerome, Abner Nash Johnson, Mary Eddie Scott Jones, John Jordan, Charles Irwin Junkin, and William F. Junkin.

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This box contains folders on George Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Chauncy Jerome, Abner Nash Johnson, Mary Eddie Scott Jones, John Jordan, Charles Irwin Junkin, and William F. Junkin.

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This box contains folders on George Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Chauncy Jerome, Abner Nash Johnson, Mary Eddie Scott Jones, John Jordan, Charles Irwin Junkin, and William F. Junkin.

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This file consists of newspaper clippings, Graham's Laissez, a correspondence with the editor of Choral Publications, and a photograph of Graham.

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This folder contains a report on Plunkett House, including owners of the house such as James Jordan, J.C. Boode, and Mrs. Minne Reed Brown; the physical location of the house and its surroundings; photographs of the house and a floorplan.

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This folder contains a newspaper article, notes, and photographs of Stono, originally known as Jordan’s Point and built by Colonel John Jordan. The article and notes discuss owners, including John L. Campbell, Mrs. Anne R. Howell, and William J. Driver. It also discusses the Virginia Military Institute, near which Stono stands.