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Lexington-Rockbridge County Calendar
This collection consists of 1977, 1978, and 1981 calendars of Lexington-Rockbridge County produced by the Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
Lexington, Virginia
Maps
This collection consists of historic maps of Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge County.
Mary Trimble Legal Document
This legal document details the repayment of Trimble's debt to Trace Decker of Rockbridge County. Trimble did not write the document herself but instead signed the document with a mark.
McCormick-Goodhart Collection
This collection contains historic photographs and documents primarily related to Rockbridge County, Virginia and vicinity.
McCown Family Papers
This collection consists primarily of business papers of the family including sale lists, indentures, land surveys, deeds, wills, promissory notes, and numerous receipts. It also includes 71 photographs from the collection of Samuel W. McCown, Jr. (WLU 1919).
Also incuded is a verse in remembrance of visit to Black Wall Cave, January 30, 1914, by H. M. Vest, which makes reference to several Rockbridge County, Virginia boys.
Militia
This collection includes information on Captain John McDowell's company and Captain John McKittrick's company.
Millboro and Kerr's Creek Turnpike Company records
This collection consists of an 1836 letter to Stockholders from the company's president, Alexander T. Barclay, and a report signed John C. Bowyer, dated 1838 December 5, to the Board of Public Works. Both of these documents are signed by the authors.
Native Americans
This collection consists of files containing newspaper articles, history essays and writing, and photographs concerning Native American land, battles with colonial settlers, prominent figures, and forts in Rockbridge County. Many materials describe the Shawnee Tribe and their presence and relationship with settlers in Kerrs Creek, Abbs' Valley, Balcony Falls, and Hayes Creek Mound. Some materials concern the death of Chief Cornstalk, also known as Hokoleskwa, and the Kerrs Creek Massacre.
Photograph of a Wall of Beatty's Mill
This collection consists of a color photograph of a large sign painted on an exterior wall of Beatty's Mill in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The sign reads 'J. W. Beatty flour, feed, meal' and 'Ballard's Famous Insurance Feeds and Obelisk Flour.'
Photographs of Andrew Elder House
This collection consists of a photograph of the Andrew Elder House and a copy of the photograph. The Andrew Elder House was later owned by the Armentrout Family and is near Lake Robertson in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Photographs of Rice Hotinger Home
This collection consists of two photographs of Rice Hotinger's home in Kerr's Creek, Virginia. One image includes vintage cars and chickens.
Photographs of the Highland Belle School near Lexington, Va
One original photograph, as well two copies of a different photographs of the Highland Belle School in Lexington, VA circa 1938. The children pictured are identified on the back of each image. Surnames of students include Swink, Smith, Shoemaker, McCown, Black, Muterspaw, Johnson, Horne, Davis, Hostetter, Campbell, Doran, Johnston, Linburg, and Ayers
Poague Family Agricultural Account Book and Slave Register
Raymond J. Kirby Scrapbooks
Scrapbooks contains approximately 150 photographs and newspaper clippings (all annotated by Kirby) on the Camille Flood of August 1969 (photographs include Nelson County and Buena Vista, Virginia) and approximately 170 photographs of the construction of the Route 11 corridor bypass around the City of Lexington, Virginia.
Reid Family Papers
Rice Hotinger Ledger and Will
This accounting ledger contains records of the Hotingers' Mountain View Farm in Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Richard Jennings Gaines Correspondence
This letter is written to William H. Dennis describing the girls and outings in Rockbridge County and the attraction of the study of astronomy.
Robert V. Ignico Papers
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.
Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger
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.
Rockbridge County Bicentennial Commission Records
This collection consists of financial records of the organization.
Rockbridge County Circuit Court Ephemera Collection
Rockbridge County, County Court memorandum book
This memorandum book contains entries in various hands of fines paid and damages assessed in court cases, including slander, property damage, and liability suits.
Rockbridge County Fair Collection
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.
Rockbridge County Militia, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment Records
This collection consists of rosters of the Rockbridge County Militia, 1st Battalion, 8th Regiment.