Virginia -- Lexington
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Alexander House - Two Forgotten College Houses, by L.L. Campbell
File — Box 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
This file consists of a typescript essay entitled "Two Forgotten College Houses."
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1800 - 1995
Elinor Junkin letter
Collection — Box 1, Folder: 1-2
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0641
Scope and Contents
Elinor Junkin, daughter of Washington College's president George Junkin and future first wife of Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson details to her first cousin Helen Dickey, of Oxford, Chester County, Pa., her family's move to and first weeks living in Lexington, Virginia, after her father's apppointment at the college. The letter mentions her siblings and shared family, describes the college and its former president Henry Ruffner, the journey from Pennsylvania to Lexington, and the...
Dates:
1848-12-14