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"A Card to the People of Rockbridge County," broadside

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0312

Scope and Contents

Candidate James B. Dorman appeals to Rockbridge County's voters for support as candidate for the Virginia Commonwealth's Attorney General . He outlines his platform and explains his voting record on key issues during his previous political appointments.

Dates: 1879

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

Alexander Sterrett Paxton Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0372

Scope and Contents This collection consiste of Alexander Sterrett Paxton's journals in six volumes (484 p.)during the American Civil War. They cover his service as a member of the 4th Virginia Infantry of the Stonewall Brigade, including his role as a Commissary Sergeant of the regiment. Journal entries explore the war experiences of a Confederate foot soldier and include: his insights into motives for war; observations and descriptions of ranking officers, fellow soldiers, friends and family; detailed...

Dates: Inclusive 1858-1959; Majority of material found within Bulk 1861-1865

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

Anderson Family papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0001

Scope and Contents This collection contains items of the Anderson and Alexander families including correspondence dealing with legal business, family matters, and Lexington, Virginia affairs. Consists largely of the family correspondence of William Alexander Anderson, Francis T. Anderson, and Mary Anne Alexander Anderson; includes letters to and from Virginia Governor John Letcher, and two letters from Mildred Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee. Other correspondents include William A. Glasgow, George Hutcheson...

Dates: 1755-1958

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

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities records

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0025

Scope and Contents This collection contains records of the association, such as meeting minutes, budget information, membership records, constitution and bylaws, as well as information about preservation easements and county mills, the organization's promotional materials, newsletter, publications, photographs, and a survey, by questionaire, of the portraits painted before 1914 that are owned and located in Rockbridge County and Lexington, Virginia. The survey was conducted under the auspices of the APVA....

Dates: 1971-2003

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

Barbara Cary Johnston Willard Scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0325

Scope and Contents

The scrapbook is a genealogical compendium of the Welsh family of Rockbridge County, Virginia and their descendants and includes many family photographs and documents.

Dates: Inclusive 1800-2006

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

Barbara Crawford Research for Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0411

Dates: Other: Date Not Yet Determined

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

Benjamin Borden Land Grant

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0107

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one document, the original land grant to Benjamin Borden of a tract of land for settlement in what would become Rockbridge County.

Dates: 1739-11-06

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

Construction Proposal and Engineer's Report for the North River Navigation Company

Collection

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0034

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...

Dates: 1852; 1850 - 1857

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

Coray S. Brown family photograph collection

Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 1-15

Identifier: WLU-PP-0167

Scope and Contents The Coray S. Brown family photograph collection ranges in date from 1875 to about 1960. The collection includes studio portraits and outdoor imagery of the Brown family, friends and acquaintances, groups and outdoor scenery from in and around the Lexington, Collierstown, Murat, North Buffalo, and Oxford Presbyterian Church communities in Rockbridge County. One of the highlights of the collection is Coray S. Brown's photo album which includes images from his time as a student at Washington...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1910 - 1960

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

David Carlisle Humphreys land survey field books

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0321

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of ten notebooks of Humphrey's surveys of Lexington, Buena Vista, and surrounding areas in Virginia, including surveys for the Lexington Development Company.

Dates: 1891

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

Davidson Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0540

Scope and Contents This collection contains personal and business correspondence, an assortment of holiday and greeting cards (1930s-1940s), account books, family photographs, a range of printed matter, including travel guides and ephemera from the family of R. E. (Robert Edmund) and his wife Gunhild A. Davidson of the Bell’s Valley and Goshen communities of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Correspondence, primarily 1917-1949, includes letters from R. E. Davidson to Gunhild Vang (Davidson) during their...

Dates: 1870 - 1975

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

Edmondson and Arnold Family Land Grants

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0620

Content Description Two Rockbridge County, Va. land grants on parchment. The first was administered to David Edmondson on June 20, 1787 and the second William Arnold, on July 25, 1787. Edmondson's (Edmonston) document describes the property as being on the South Mountain on the Pedlar Gap road near or bordering Henry Nevil. Arnold's land, on the Forks of the James River, borders land of David Edmondson, James Templeton, William Holdman, and that of the McClung Family. Each document is signed by Virginia Lt....

Dates: 1787

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

Edward Miley Eustler scrapbook

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0430

Scope and Contents Edward M. Eustler's photographic scrapbook (1910-1911) documents Eustler's experience as a student at Washington and Lee University. Eustler, then of Greensboro, North Carolina, compiled his photographic scrapbook with approximately 350 photographs taken between 1910 and 1911. Subjects of the photographs include campus and dorm life, athletics, architecture, local landmarks and historic sights, fraternity and club initiations, the Lexington, Virginia downtown area, the Virginia Military...

Dates: 1910-1911

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

Emily Morrison Bondurant Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0267

Scope and Contents

This collection is a typescript of reminiscences by Emily Morrison Bondurant about her life in Brownsburg, Virginia and later in Buckingham County, Virginia and Auburn, Alabama following her 1859 marriage.

Dates: Inclusive 1916-1925

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

Glasgow Family Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0210

Scope and Contents

Consists largely of correspondence within the Glasgow/Paxton/Anderson family. Correspondence related to Rebekah A. Glasgow dates from 1846 to 1903, and correspondence within the Paxton family dates from 1897 to 1900. Also includes limited correspondence from Ellen Glasgow.

Dates: Inclusive 1846-1945

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

Glasgow Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0057

Scope and Contents This collection contains items of the Glasgow family of Virginia, including correspondence and business papers of William Anderson Glasgow (1825-1910), of Fincastle, and his son, Francis Thomas Glasgow (1854-1927), both lawyers; and of Francis T. Glasgow (1829-1916), brother of William A. and his uncle, Joseph Reid Anderson (1813-1892), both of Richmond; legal briefs, contingent claims contracts, and vouchers, 1880-1885, of the firm of Glasgow and Glasgow, Fincastle, Va.; legal papers,...

Dates: Inclusive 1858-1926

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

Home Demonstration Clubs Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0317

Scope and Contents

This collection includes minutes, scrapbooks, histories, photographs, recipie booklets, and other items of twenty home demonstration clubs in the Rockbridge County, Virginia area.

Dates: Inclusive 1923-2006; Majority of material found within Bulk 1960-1989

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

Hotinger family photographs

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0131

Content Description Photograph collection of members of the Hotinger family of Rockbridge County, Va. This collection includes a photograph of Rice Hotinger and Susan Radar Hotinger celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary on October 18, 1949; Harvey and Katherine Hotinger; Gertrude Hotinger; as well as a group photo of the Hotinger family, where each individual in this group photograph is identified. The collection consists of originals and copies. Also incuded is a group photo of Mr. and Mrs. Grover...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1960

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

Hugh Adams Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0373

Scope and Contents The Hugh Adams Papers archive is comprised of approximately 75 documents concerning the emancipation of nineteen slaves of the Adams estate and their estate imposed emigration to Careysburg, Liberia. Adams was actively involved for many years with the American Colonization Society ( A.C.S.) which promoted and engaged in the emigration process of free or freed African-Americans to Liberia on the west African coast. Included in the archive is an original handwritten copy of the will of Hugh...

Dates: 1857-1860

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

Ironmasters

Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0060 - #0076

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0065

Scope and Contents

This file contains records related to the history of Ironworks in Rockbridge County. Includes typescript papers on Ironmasters, different iron works locations, extracts from law suits, newspaper clippings, biographical sketches, publication materials, and maps of Irish Creek.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1956-09-15

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

J. Woods Culton hunting license and celluloid button

Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0060 - #0076

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0061

Scope and Contents

A wallet sized paper huntin license and accompanying celluoid "resident license" button for hunting, fishing, and trapping in Rockbridge County, Virginia resident J. Culton Woods, of Brownsburg, Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: 1928 - 1929

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

James McDowell Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0045

Scope and Contents

This collection consists of three documents: a land survey, Oct. 27, 1795, of 624 acres on the Big Calf Pasture River in Rockbridge County, Virginia; deed of trust between William Moore and Andrew Reid, Jr. in favor of McDowell, Oct. 8, 1804; deed of 29 1/2 acres on South River from David, an emancipated slave, and McDowell, Dec. 23, 1816. Included in the Control folder is a Thesis by Mary Boyce Hicks, "James McDowell and the Virginia Slavery Debate of 1831-32," Athens, Georgia, 2010.

Dates: 1795 - 1816

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

John F. Swayne Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0292

Scope and Contents This collection consists of Swayne's personal papers from his time as a student at Washington College, including correspondence with E. C. Gordon and Mary F. Dickson, a subscription to the Southern Collegian, and two essays. One letter is a response from the clerk of the faculty to Swayne's notice of withdrawal from the college. One essay entitled 'A trip to House Mountain' was written in 1869; it details a trip made there in the summer of 1867. There is an...

Dates: Inclusive 1867-1935; Majority of material found in Bulk 1867-1869

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

Joseph Fauber Shaner Correspondence

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0201

Scope and Contents

The collection consists mainly of photocopies of American Civil War letters written to and from Joseph Shaner and his family. It also includes a portion of Shaner's 1862 diary, his service records, one photograph, obituaries, history, reminiscences, and genealogies (1754-1978) pertaining to the Shaner family and other Rockbridge County families.

Dates: 1861 - 1865

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

Land Grants

Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0060 - #0076

Identifier: RHS-Coll-0067

Scope and Contents This collection includes copies and originals of 18th and 19th century land grants for acreage in Rockbridge County, Augusta County, Bath County, and other areas in southwestern Virginia. Three folders relate to the Borden land grant, which established Rockbridge County. There is a fragment of an undated, handwritten copy of the Borden land grant. Other folders related to the Borden grant include historical analysis and recounting of the development of the grant by E.P. Tompkins. Some land...

Dates: Majority of material found within 1749 - 1985

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

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"A Card to the People of Rockbridge County," broadside

Alexander Sterrett Paxton Papers

Anderson Family papers

Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities records

Barbara Cary Johnston Willard Scrapbook

Barbara Crawford Research for Rockbridge County Artists and Artisans

Benjamin Borden Land Grant

Construction Proposal and Engineer's Report for the North River Navigation Company

Coray S. Brown family photograph collection

David Carlisle Humphreys land survey field books

Davidson Family Papers

Edmondson and Arnold Family Land Grants

Edward Miley Eustler scrapbook

Emily Morrison Bondurant Papers

Glasgow Family Correspondence

Glasgow Family Papers

Home Demonstration Clubs Papers

Hotinger family photographs

Hugh Adams Papers

Ironmasters

J. Woods Culton hunting license and celluloid button

James McDowell Papers

John F. Swayne Papers

Joseph Fauber Shaner Correspondence

Land Grants

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