Maps

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

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

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

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

Henry Donald Campbell Map Collection

Collection — Oversize Drawer 40: [Barcode: 0000005783]

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0619

Dates: Majority of material found within 1857 - 1900

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

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

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

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

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