Essay, "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957"
Content Description
This collection is comprised of an eight page typescript essay titled "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957" by Estelle V. Anderson. The essay was written in 1973 and details African American schools, churches, and families of the Buffalo District of southwest Rockbridge County, Va., one of six former magisterial districts which included such communities and locales as Collierstown, Bolivar Mills or Murat, North and South Buffalo, Black's Creek, and Kyger's Hill. The essay includes lists of family names and biographical sketches of a number of the African American community members. Churches mentioned are Cedar Hill Baptist Church, a church on Black’s Creek, the former Collierstown Baptist Church, Oxford and Collierstown Presbyterian Churches. A number of former African American schools are also described.
Dates
- Essay
- Other: Majority of material found within Time frame of coverage of essay
Creator
- Anderson, Estelle V. (Author, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials entirely in English.
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This collection is available for research use.
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Extent
1 Files
- African American Baptists
- African American Sunday schools
- African Americans -- Segregation
- Alexander family
- Anderson family
- Beal , Leroy (Contributor)
- Beal family
- Beal, Lee
- Beal, Lily (Contributor)
- Boss family
- Caruthers family
- Cedar Hill Church (Rockbridge, Va.)
- Checkwood family
- Cook family
- Crutchfield family
- Davis family
- Evans family
- Garry family
- Jackson family
- Johnson family
- Lee family
- McCown, Mary Montgomery (Contributor)
- McCutcheon, Ophelia Beal (Contributor)
- Merchant family
- Moore (Alice Morrison) (Contributor)
- Morrison family
- Morrison, Sam
- Parker family
- Schools
- Spencer family
- Virginia--Collierstown
- Washington Family
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- Language of description
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- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives Repository