Virginia -- Bath County
Subject
Subject Source: Fast
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Four Images (originals and copies) of McCown Springs, near Williamsville, Bath County, Va.
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0077
Scope and Contents
Images are contemporary copies of scrapbook photographs that likely dated between 1920 and 1950. One image shows a wooden gazebo. The other shows a hotel-like dwelling with a covered porch. McCown Springs was also known as All Healing Springs. Original source of photographs is unknown. Copies were made by Special Collections staff. Also included are two original photos.
Dates:
between 1920 and 1950
Land Grants
Collection — 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
Mary Anna Randolph Custis Lee Related Photographs
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0145
Content Description
Four photographs related to Mary Randolph Custis Lee. This group compiled by Washington and Lee includes two images of an early portrait of Mrs. Lee, a modern photograph of Mrs. Lee's soaking chair that was designed for her at the Warm Springs in Bath County, Va., and a modern photograph of a child's doll that was likely in the Lee family. The images of the Lee portrait are 20th century photographic prints of glass plate negatives of the portraits made by Michael Miley of Lexington, Va. in...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1885 - 1995