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Baer Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0155
Scope and Contents
This collection in comprised principally business and family correspondence and general papers of the Baer family of the Panther Gap vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va. with a concentration of papers relative to the family's land holdings such as maps, indentures, and wills. Other highlights are a group of twenty-one manuscript weaving drafts for making household textiles, a family Bible in German(l744), local militia fines, genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt)...
Dates:
1744 - 1929
E. D. Heppert Collection of research materials on Burning Spring/Ebbing Spring Church
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0427
Scope and Contents
This is a collection of research materials on Burning Spring/Ebbing Spring Church in Glade Springs, VA gathered by E. D. Heppert.
Dates:
Inclusive 1972-1973
Henry Donald Campbell Map Collection
Collection — Oversize: Drawer 40
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0619
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1857 - 1900
James Noah Hess Scrapbook
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0413
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a scrapbook, entitled 'My Memory Book, W.I.H.S.' and accompanying material from James Noah Hess, Washington and Lee University class of 1930. W.I.H.S stands for Washington Irving High School in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Dates:
Inclusive 1920-1940
Plat Map and Land Survey by William Paxton for James Willson
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0544
Scope and Contents
A survey and small map, dated 1818, of 115 acres of land in Rockbridge County, Virginia, which belonged to James Willson. The survey includes the names William Cunningham, Jonathan Poague, Rueben Grigsby, and Thomas McFarland, whose lands border the Willson property. The North Fork of the James River and Mill Creek are also mentioned in the survey.
Dates:
1818
Rockbridge Historical Society files on local companies
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-39
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0042
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1870 - 1970