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Box 1

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Hurricane Camille, 1969 - 2019

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents

This folder contains a record by J. Mark Jones, a Lexington musician (then high school teacher) who recorded a song about Hurricane Camille which was released in January 1970. Also included is a report about the flood written by a Washington and Lee class.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1969 - 2019

Newspaper article, "Fury of a Flood", November 4-5, 1985

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents

Roanoke Times & World News, November 11, 1985, Section C, pages 1-12.

Dates: Event: November 4-5, 1985

"Unpredictable By Nature", 1985

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Article by Gayle Cohen, published in CURIO, Summer 1992.



Dates: Event: 1985

Rockbridge Historical Society files on floods and Hurricane Camille

 Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-4
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0049
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1950-09 - 2019-08