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Richard Jennings Gaines Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0081

Scope and Contents

This letter is written to William H. Dennis describing the girls and outings in Rockbridge County and the attraction of the study of astronomy.

Dates: 1819

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robert Alexander Legal Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0037

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a deed, dated August 13, 1747, for a tract of land near the town of Greenville, Augusta County, Virginia, conveyed to Robert Alexander from William Beverley and two legal papers connected with the deed. There is also an authorized English Bible, 1766, with Robert Alexander's signature. Genealogical information by George Diehl is housed in the control folder.

Dates: 1747 - 1766

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robert E. Lee Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0064

Scope and Contents This collection contains primary and secondary resources pertaining to Robert E. Lee and the Lee family. Included are correspondences from, to, and about Lee and various family members; memorabilia, pamphlets, photographs, reminiscences, miscellaneous personal papers, family history and genealogy. The collection includes materials acquired from the Lee family and items donated to and purchased and compiled by W&L University since Lee's tenure as president of Washington College from 1865...

Dates: Inclusive 1792-1935; Majority of material found within 1833 - 1870

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robert E. Lee to Louisa Washington letters

Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-7

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0669

Scope and Contents This collection consists primarily of six letters written from Robert E. Lee to Louisa Washington between September 1861 and December 1868. Louisa Washington was the eldest child of John Augustine Washington, III of Fauquier County, Va., the last Washington family descendant and private individual to own the Washington family estate Mount Vernon. A key subject of select letters is Colonel John A. Washington’s death on September 13, 1861 while serving on the staff of General Robert E. Lee as...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1861 - 1868

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robert Seager Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0346

Scope and Contents

This collection contains photocopies of typed copies of a diary (1840-1841) and correspondence of the Gardiner family of New York, with information about their business dealings, political associations, and their relation to the Tylers of Virginia. The photocopies contain Seager's annotations.

Dates: Inclusive 1840-1887; Majority of material found within Bulk 1840-1860

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Robert V. Ignico Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0410

Scope and Contents

This collection contains 'Bi-Centennial Issue of Lexington Gazzette Commemorating the Settlement of the Rockbridge Section of Virginia by the White Men, A Tribute To The Scotch-Irish Pioneers', several greeting cards from the school, a collection 19 early football photos, a copy of the Washington and Lee University Bulletin (Volume XLVII, Number 4), a portrait of Robert V. Ignico 1919 as a Brigadier General in the U.S. Air Force, and a scrapbook.

Dates: Inclusive 1919-1970

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Alum Springs Broadside

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0354

Scope and Contents

This broadside advertises the medicinal waters of Rockbridge Alum Springs, Virginia.

Dates: 1911-03-23

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0272

Scope and Contents

This register contains names of guests who visited the Rockbridge Baths, Virginia hotel between June 1871 and May 1882. Among them were many prominent faculty members of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, as well as guests from the city of Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1876-1882

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County Bicentennial Commission Records

Collection

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0024

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of financial records of the organization.

Dates: 1977 - 1978

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County Circuit Court Ephemera Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0179

Scope and Contents This collection consists of four broadsides offering land for sale at public auction as ordered by the Circuit Court of Rockbridge County from 1874-1885. Commissioners executing these sales were: J.G. Steele, W.P. Houston, S.H. Letcher, C.A. Davidson and W.P. Hanger. Litigants and defendants in the associated Circuit Court cases include: E.S. Tutwiler, John Mohler, Andrew Lindsay, A.T. Hanger, James Kennedy and A.J. McBride. The land parcels offered at auction are in Rockbridge County and...

Dates: Inclusive 1874-1885

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County, County Court memorandum book

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0461

Scope and Contents

This memorandum book contains entries in various hands of fines paid and damages assessed in court cases, including slander, property damage, and liability suits.

Dates: Inclusive 1801-1802

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County Fair Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0517

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a List of Premiums, Rules, and Regulations booklet for the first annual Rockbridge County Fair, which took place in Lexington, Virginia on September 20-23, 1921.

Dates: 1921

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County Militia, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment Records

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0128

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of rosters of the Rockbridge County Militia, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment.

Dates: 1841 - 1862

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0215

Scope and Contents

This collection contains miscellaneous papers from Rockbridge County, Virginia: receipt of payment to Mr. John T. Figgatt from the Sheriff of Rockbridge Co.; payment receipt dated January 15, 1851; letter dated Nov. 18, 1883; dental bill; list entitled 'Rules of this school'; and 2 small notebooks.

Dates: Inclusive 1856-1890

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County Records

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0067

Scope and Contents

This collection includes Rockbridge County records, including tax lists, ordinary licenses, muster rolls, lists of slaves, court cases, and election polls.

Dates: Inclusive 1778-1912

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge County, Virginia Physician's Notebook

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0114

Scope and Contents

This medical notebook of an unidentified physician in Rockbridge County, Virginia includes notes on treatments, accounts from 1825-1833, and descriptions of childbirth cases from 1824-1831. There is also a photocopy of the notebook.

Dates: Inclusive 1824-1833

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Historical Society Collection

Collection

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0009

Scope and Contents This collection consists of various records, such as meeting minutes, papers, and other printed materials, such as newspaper clippings. It contains several copies of a pamphlet of bicentennial historic dates that occured within Rockbridge County and the city of Lexington as compiled by Rockbridge Historical Society president Charles W. Turner. It also contains a typescript from 1956, entitled The River Crossing at Jordan's Point by Martha Ann Spencer, that was submitted to the society's...

Dates: Inclusive 1939-1978 Approximate

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Historical Society collection about Arnold's Valley, Virginia

Collection

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0007

Scope and Contents This collection includes an edited typescript titled "Notes on Arnold's Valley" by Washington and Lee University faculty member Miles Poindexter. Poindexter read this paper to the Rockbridge Historical Society (RHS) at their quarterly meeting on October 27, 1941. This is noted in Volume Two of the "Proceedings of the Rockbridge Historical Society." Also included in this collection are two drafts of a paper written for Lexington, Virginia's Ignorance Club on the history of the Arnold Family...

Dates: 1940-07-22

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Historical Society collection of deeds

Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-35

Identifier: WLU -Coll-0043

Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1748 - 1920

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Historical Society files on cemeteries

Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-15

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0039

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1900 - 2000

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Historical Society files on floods and Hurricane Camille

Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-3

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

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives