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Hurricane Camille (1969)

 Subject
Subject Source: Fast

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Flood in Lexington/Rockbridge Co., Va. - Newspaper Accounts, 1969-08-19 - 1969-08-20

 File — Box 2: [Barcode: 0000004521], Folder: 18
Scope and Contents

This file consists of two accounts of a great flood in Lexington as a result of Hurricane Camille in 1969.

Dates: Event: 1969-08-19 - 1969-08-20

Photograph collection of the Buena Vista, VA flood of 1969

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0161
Scope and Contents

Thirty-seven color snapshots of scenes from the aftermath of flooding of Buena Vista, Virginia in August 1969. The rains that led to the extensive flooding within particular areas Central Virginia along the Blue Ridge Mountains were from the remnants of Hurricane Camille which had made landfall on the Mississippi coast days before.

Dates: 1969

Raymond J. Kirby Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0009
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1969

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