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This collection consists of research files on local and regional churches, especially those found in Rockbridge and Augusta counties in Virginia. The files are arranged alphabetically by name of church and are comprised of both primary and secondary resources.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of a compilation of both primary and secondary resources on the American Civil War collected by the Rockbridge Historical Society. Tha majority of the collection is comprised of Rockbridge County and regional Virginia subjects. Included are research papers, clippings from newspapers and various publications, original imprints, war dated printed matter and manuscripts. Key subjects include General David Hunter's raid of the Shenandoah Valley and the Battle of New...

Scope and Contents This collection contains official records of the organization, such as annual reports, as well as various papers, including event invitations, mailed pamphlets, the organization's newsletter, and photocopies of newspaper articles. It also contains two envelopes of animal photographs, some of which are used in the mailed pamphlets. Also included is the July 27, 2022, News-Gazette obituary for Jane Cornett, who was the Executive Director of the SPCA for many years. A t-shirt, "I helped build...

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This collection contains the Ignorance Club's programs for years 1909-1910, 1934-1935, 1935-1936, 1936-1937, 1941-42, which contain officer lists, membership lists, lists of club rules, and schedules of the year's meetings and member presentations. It also includes what is believed to be the first paper written by a society member for presentation at a meeting, which was R. F. Anderson on March 13, 1908.

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This collection contains brochures, premium books, newspaper supplements, and other advertisements for Rockbridge County fairs and festivals.

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This collection records the life of John D. "Pete" Sterrett, Jr. and his wife, Lula McCorkle Moore, and their Rockbridge County and Wytheville, Virginia families. Included in this collection are personal correspondence, which includes WWII correspondence to wife Lula from John D. "Pete" Sterrett, Jr., photographs, genealogies, and papers relating to their social lives.

Scope and Contents This collection records the life of Tate Thomas Brady and his wife, Bonnie Fillingane and their family. Tate grew up at the Buffalo Forge estate in Rockbridge County, Virginia, greaduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Virginia, and worked for Virginia Power Company in various positions and locations in Virginia. Most of the collection includes personal and business correspondence and papers of his family, who lived at the Buffalo Forge estate. Some of...

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These two volume (290+) page account books contain: documents, business accounts and names of customers from six years of Ruff's Lexington, Virginia hat shop.

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Norvelle O'Neal Moses operated the Lee Highway Filling Station and served as a general manager of the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Lexington, Va. The collection consists of his business and personal papers.

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This collection contains research materials compiled by Charles W. Turner for his book Virginia's Green Revolution.

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This collection contains the papers of the Quisenberry family from 1922-1963 including ephemera collected during their travels, photographs, school papers, items about their religious faith, as well as Lexington, Rockbridge County, Rockingham, and Shenandoah County, VA.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of an early 1850s contractor's proposal for the construction of dams, guards, and locks - numbers one through four, on the North River (now Maury River) in Rockbridge County, Virginia. It is a printed form with hand written details including a projected project completion date of 1857. The proposal is signed by canal contractor Benjamin J. Jordan, Rockbridge County, Va. The second item is a four page report and cost estimate on the potential for constructing one of...

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This collection consists of research files on local and regional cemeteries, especially those found in Rockbridge and Augusta counties in Virginia. The files are arranged alphabetically by name of cemetery and are comprised of both primary and secondary resources.

Scope and Contents A three page typescript research paper by V.M.I. cadet Horace M. Dalton, on plant life identified at three historic iron furnace ruins in Rockbridge and Botetourt counties in Virgina. The furnaces subject to the research were Buena Vista Furnace near the confluence of the South River and the Maury River between Lexington and Buena Vista, Virginia; the Glenwood Furnace located in Arnold's Valley, Rockbridge Co.; and the Arcadia or Boyd's Furnace near Arcadia and along Jennings Creek in...

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A collection of original land deeds and indentures from the vicinity of Rockbridge County, Virginia collected by the Rockbridge Historical Society.

Scope and Contents This collection contains: a letter advertising a medication, on the other side of which is a note about the sale of the Galbraith Farm and a note about a trial; a letter from the Rockbridge Historical Society concerning a landmark next to the Stonewall Jackson Farm; a copy of an address delivered before the Rockbridge Historical Society by Colonel William Couper about the Virginia Military Institute; a memorande concerning a farm owned and operated by Major T.J. "Stonewall"...

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This file contains: a newspaper clipping about Lexington's fire department in 1829; a list of the first group of Lexington firefighters from 1797; and a souvenir booklet of the Forty-third Annual Convention and Tournament of the Virginia State Firemen's Association.

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This file contains two rate books discussing the tariff of rates in Lexington, Rockbridge Co. and one rate book for the Valley counties of Virginia.

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This collection contains: newspaper clippings about Hurricane Camille; a record of a song recorded by J. Mark Jones about the night of the hurricane; three copies of a report titled "Reaction of Flood Victims in Rockbridge County, Virginia" by a Washington and Lee class in Research Methods and Politics and Sociology; and a poster advertising the 50th anniversary commemoration of Hurricane Camille.

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This collection contains newspaper clippings and papers about forests in the Shenandoah Valley.