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Abbott, John Agnor, Andrew Alexander, Archibald Alexander, John Alexander, Louise Houston Alexander, William Alexander, Archer Anderson, Ellen Anderson, Joseph Anderson, William A. Anderson, Armentrout, and Jacob Arnold.","Includes financial deed from 1890, authorized capital bond from Buena Vista Cassimere Mills from 1891, bond from People's National Bank in Lynchburg from 1891, and a hand written bond noting terms of loans from 1893.","This folder includes a biographical essay by Mrs. Henry Drennan Agnew (no date) and a scrapbook, also assembled by Mrs. Henry Agnew, which includes newspaper clippings about Jean Agnew (1934-1935).","This folder contains a photo of Archibald Alexander's house, dated 1845.","This folder includes a 1918 publication on Archer Anderson and his time spent as a director of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia.","This folder contains three gelatin silver photo copies that depict a \"patriotic celebration\" held on behalf of William A. Anderson from 1917. The original photo was developed by J.T. Miller at 28 Main St. Lexington, Virginia.","Includes folders on George A. Baker, Barclay, Mr. and Mrs. Hassie Barry, Thomas H. Benton, Daniel Blain, Mrs. Lewis H. Blair, BlakeyJohn Bower, Dr. Elliott T. Brady, John Mercer Brooke, Brooks Family, Manley Brown, Mary Moore Brown, Sally White Bruce, Thomas Bruce, Samuel Burks, and Burns family","This folder includes two photo negatives that depict George and Mary Baker. The developed portraits are included as well.","This folder includes a bound copy of typed interview transcripts between Hassie Barry and Eleanor Connor on behalf of Lime Kiln Arts from November 12th, 1994. Transcribed by Rockbridge Reports.","Includes folders on Campbell/Houston family, Edmund D. Campbell, Harry D. Campbell, John Lyle Campbell, John Poage Campbell, Leslie Lyle Campbell, Robert F. Campbell, Robert K. Campbell, W. A. Campbell, William S. Campbell, Horace Caruthers, John A. Champe, Chapin family, Chittum, John Coalter, Christopher Columbus, Robert Page Cooke, Mary Beard Copper, Rev. John Craig, Jane Todd Crawford, James S. A. Crawford, Crozet family, Ernest Cummings, and Cunningham family.","This folder includes a manuscript copy of John Lyle Campbell's work \"Silurian Formation in Western Virginia,\"  published in the American Journal of Science and ARts, Vol. XVIII, 1879.","This folder includes a scrapbook made from a First Presbyterian Church (Asheville, N.C.) program pamphlet and newspaper clippings about Robert Campbell. The pamphlet is from a 1943 memorial of Campbell.","This folder contains a scrapbook with a variety of personal writings, journal entries, and correspondence to and from William Anderson Campbell. Letters date back to 1882. Newspaper obituaries are included following personal writing and ephemera.","This folder contains two photos of William S. Campbell as a child and as a young man. No dates available.","Two copies of a pamphlet called 'The Story of Finding the Coffin in which Gen. Robert E. Lee was afterward Buried'","This folder contains 4 photographs that display a 1492 English translation of Christopher Colombus' Log Book on his initial journey to the Americas.","This folder contains a number of publications and complete magazines reflecting on Jane Crawford's abdominal surgery performed by Ephraim McDowell, such as the Kentucky Medical Journal (1979) and Danville Magazine (1972). Furthermore, there is an illustrated print depicting the medical scene (based on a lithograph from 1880).","Includes folders on Samuel Dale, Benjamin Darst, Pierre Daura, Davidson, Charles Andrew Davidson, Greenlee Davidson, James Dorman Davidson, James M. Davidson, Jefferson Davis, Sam Davis, Benjamin Franklin Day, Marquis De Chastellus, Sally Bruce Dickinson, James Dabney Dix, Charles Squier Dod, Calvin M. Dold, Drake, and Dunlap.","This folder contains a woodblock print of a Pierre Daura Christmas card, depicting the birth of Jesus Christ. No dates available.","This folder includes a number of copies of a poem written by Greenlee Davidson's father commemorating his relationship with his mother following his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3rd, 1863.","This folder includes a number of copies of a poem written by Greenlee Davidson's father commemorating his relationship with his mother following his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3rd, 1863.","This folder contains a pamphlet from the Proclamation of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Jefferson Davis on June 3rd, 1908, officially dubbed a Confederate memorial day by the Hollywood Memorial association and endorsed by former Virginia Govenor, Claude A. Swanson. Pamphlet includes a photo of Davis.","This folder includes a pamphlet on Sam Davis written by Dr. H. M. Hamill entitled \"The Story of an Old Fashion Boy,\" from 1908.","This folder contains a biographical death record in the immediate days following James Dabney Dix's passing by his brother. No dates available.","This folder contains 19th century ink blotters advertising insurance companies for which Dold was the Lexington agent as well as a biographical sketch of Dold.","George William Effinger, Charles M. Figgat, Richard Fletcher, Augusta B. Fothergill, William Frazier, Jacob Fuller, Francis pendleton Gaines, James E. A. Gibbs, Gilbert McClung Gillespie, Gilmer Family, Ellen Glasgow, Nancy Gravatt, Michael Harmon, Robert Goodloe Harper, Haynes family, David Hays, John Hays, Hays family, Maude Henderson, Hickory Hill, Finley Willson Houston, K. H. Houston, Samuel Houston, Samuel Houston Jr., Rev. Samuel Houston, Thomas D. Houston, Houston Family, James Lewis Howe, Charles Hughes, margaret Jones Hull, Milton Wylie Humphreys, Richard C. Irby, and George Irwin.","This folder contains a teaching certificate for the Rockbridge County public free schools dated August 31, 1873 and a certificate of lifetime membership in the American Colonization Society dated August 25, 1846.  The membership certificate is signed by the Society's president, Henry Clay, and secretary, William McLain.","This folder contains a pamphlet from the inauguration of Francis Pendleton Gaines as President of Washington and Lee University. Dated October 25th, 1930.","This folder contains 6 silver gellatin photographs and one photo negative depicting James Gibbs and his residence. No dates available.","Includes part of newspaper article, \"Ellen Glasgow's Biographer Visits Old Buena Vista Home,\" with photo of author Miss Phyllis Hanson of Norfolk in Green Forest room, holding her manuscript.","This folder contains a published speech given by Harper at the celebration of the recent triumphs of the cause of mankind in Germany dated January 20, 1814.","This folder contains an October 1944 receipt for the sale of \"Hickory Hill,\" a home in Rockbridge County.","This folder contains a bound scrapbook with a variety of stickers and newspaper clipppings. No dates available.","This folder contains a pamphlet written by Sam Houston, dated March 3rd, 1825, which proffers his perspective on 19th century Tennessee state politics.","This folder contains a detailed biography of Houston and a documents collection. No publication date available.","This folder contains personal correspondence between George Irwin and his mother, dated December 10th, 1917.","This box contains folders on George Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Chauncy Jerome, Abner Nash Johnson, Mary Eddie Scott Jones, John Jordan, Charles Irwin Junkin, and William F. Junkin.","This folder contains personal correspondence between George Jackson and Mrs. Moore regarding real estate. Dated August 17th, 1907.","This folder contains a copy of \"The Southern Churchman\" from 1944 with a biographical piece on Jackson. Also holds an undated poem from an anoynmous author. Furthermore, there is a silver gellatin photo of a personal correspondence between Jackson and a fellow Confederate General.","This folder contains multiple photo negatives and a developed silver gellatin photograph of a Thomas Jefferson letter related to the Natural Bridge, dated July 1st, 1809. A facsimilie of the letter is also included.","This folder includes a number of photos that portray personal correspondence to and from Johnston, dated between 1798 to 1805. Furthermore the folder has a prize awarded to Anna Johnston in chemistry from the Lexington Female Academy.","This folder contains a copy of the magazine \"The Iron Worker,\" dated August 1957, with a biographical piece on John Jordan.  Also included is a photocopy of a November 7, 1873 Lexington Gazette article, giving the particulars of the blowing up of the Jordan Furnace in Amherst County, on October 28, 1873.  Two men were killed, Henry Watkins and a black man, by the name of Tom Watson.  An excerpt of this newspaper article, from the Virginia Cavalcade, Summer 1973, is also included in this folder.","Aldine Kieffer, Ann E. Kirkpatrick, James F. Knick, Eva Jordan Krebs, Leech Family, John Legeune, Leguene address, John Letcher, John Letcher Jr., Andrew Lewis, John Lewis, Margaret Lewis, Dr. Alfred Leyburn, John Doak Lilley,","This folder contains two books of sheet music - \"The New Harmonia Sacra: A Compilation of Church Music\" by Joseph Funk's Sons published by Glen Publishing Company Printers in 1826, as well as \"The Star of Bethlehem\" edited by J.H. Hail and J.H. Ruebush published 1889.","This folder includes tax forms for the Leech family dated 1889 and 1890, one of which deals with Thomas Leech's military status as a tax exemption.","This folder includes two business cards with John Letcher's signature. No dates available.","This folder includes one photo negative and one developed silver gellatin photograph of John Lewis' home, Fort Lewis, as it stood in 1925 outside of Staunton, Virginia.","Contains undated photo negatives and developed photos of John Blair Lyle's tombstone.","This folder contains a letter between J.H. Letcher and Fitzhugh Lee with his signature. Dated May 25th, 1893.","Original typescript and manuscripts relating to reminiscences of G.W.C. Lee's time as President of Washington and Lee, and his time in Lexington.","This folder contains four separate portraits of General Robert Edward Lee. All are undated.","Program from the Unveiling of the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia. 2nd Edition. Dated 1890.","This folder includes a pamphlet entitled \"The True Story of General Order No. 9 - General Lee's Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia,\" published by Lee Museum Committee at WLU. Published 1928.","Four copies of \"Ceremonies connected with the Inauguration of the Mausoleum and the Unveiling of the Recumbent Figure of General Robert Edward Lee.\" Dated 1883.","This folder includes a copy og \"Shenandoah Valley Magazine\" from November 1980 that has a biographical piece on Lee's Lexington Home. Also includes Lee Memorial Fund magazine from 1921 and article, \"Where the Past Isn't Even Past,\" by Peter J. Boyer, on the battles dividing Lexington, Virginia, THE WEEKLY STANDARD, November 26, 2018.","This folder contains a copy of the newspaper \"Southern Collegian\" from October 15th, 1870 with the obituary of General Robert E. Lee.","This folder includes a copy of James Power Smith's paper on General Lee at Gettysburg, which was delivered in April 1905. Published by R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans from Richmond, VA.","Soft-bound copy of Southern Collegian, Volume XXXIX, Number 3, \"Lee Number\", Robert E. Lee Centennial.","\"Robert E. Lee: Churchman\", by Marshall W. Fishwick, Historiographer, Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.","This folder contains \"War and Work\" by Colonel William Couper - an address delivered before the Rockbridge County (VA.) Historical Society. Dated April 22nd, 1940.","This folder includes two sketched of furnishing inside the former home of Robert E. Lee. Undated.","George Marshall, Bonnie Martin, John Mathews, Mathew F. Maury, Donald McCraig, Ghost McChesney, Thomas Edward McCorkle, McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Hugh White McCrum, Charles McCulloch Jr., Hunter McDonald, Catherine Feland McDowell, Charles R. McDowell, Ephraim McDowell, McDowell Family, McElroy, William McElwee, Henry McLaughlen, Alexander G. McNutt, MacMillon.","Includes a bound copy of an interview with Bonnie Martin by Eleanor Connor for Lime Kiln Arts, published October 27th, 1994.","This folder includes a list of miscellaneous stocks written by McChesney. Written January 20th, 1953.","This folder includes a \"Kappa Alpha Journal\" from March 1935 about Thomas Edward McCorkle.","This folder includes a pamplhet written by T.S. Gillett, published by Weed Parsons and Company in 1855. The pamphlet describes the court case of Cyrus McCormick against William H. Seymour and Dayton S. Morgan.","This folder includes a brochure for McCormick Farm, as well as a Pamphlet for the McCormick Celebration, which took place on September 25th, 1931.","This folder includes a pamphlet entitled \"The 'Scotts-Irish' of the Valley of Virginia, and their Influence on Medical Progress in America\" by Dr. Hugh Trout, published by Paul B. Hoeber Inc. in 1938. There is also a copy of the Kentucky Medical Journal published in 1933. Furthermore there is a Ephriam McDowell biographical pamphlet.","This folder contains a pamphlet entitled \"Our Pioneer Heroine of Surgery - Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford\" by Mrs. Arthur Thomas McCormack in 1932.","This folder includes a bound copy of \"Restoration History of the Home of Dr. Ephraim McDowell - Father of Abdominal Surgery: Danville, Kentucky.\" Published in 2000.","This folder contains three separate silver gellatin photographs from 1957. One is a depiction of McDowell's statue. The other two depict McDowell's grave and location.","This folder includes a Capital stock for 10,000 dollars in the name of Michael Miley for Miley Colour Photograph Company. Dated 1902.","This folder contains a photocopied image made by Michael Miley entitled \"Miley Mosiac.\" No dates available.","This folder contains two bound scrapbooks of Virginia Licenses issued to Michael Miley as a daguerreotype artist. Dated from 1866 to 1918.","This folder includes a list of people who fronted money for the funeral expenses. No dates included.","This folder includes a pamphlet on Reverened William MacCutchen Morrison from June 7th, 1926.","Phil Nunn, Frank Padget, Henry Chester Parsons, Alexander Paxton, Elisha F. Paxton, James John Paxton, John A. Paxton, John H. Paxton, John and Phoebe Paxton, Thomas Paxton, William M. Paxton, Pendleton, Alexander Spotswood Pendleton, Edmund Pendleton, James Dudley Pendleton, William C. Pendleton, William J. Pendleton, William Nelson Pendleton, Frances Penick, Mary Monroe Penick, S. G. Pettigrew, Physicians, William Franklin Pierson, William T. Poague, Miles Poindexter, Thomas Posey, Preston, Randolph Preston, Beatrice Price, Byron D. Pultz.","This folder includes the a photocopy of a portrait of Phil \"Old Dixie\" Nunn. No dates available.","This folder contains a portrait of Henry Chester Parsons dated 1945.","This folder contains personal correspondence, journal entries, and a jury summons with James John Paxton dated in the 1850s.","This folder includes a flyer for the interred body of Thomas Paxton, dated 1788.","This folder includes a photo of W.M. Paxton along with copies of two pieces of writing: \"The Covers\" and \"The Legend of Moaning Falls.\" Dated 1799.","This folder includes a Cross of Military Service for James Dudley Pendleton dated February 19th, 1890.","This folder contains an in memoriam for Reverend William Nelson Pendleton, the rector of Grace Memorial Church. Dated January 15th, 1883.","This folder contains a personal correspondence between Frances Penick and J.B. Earman. Dated November 11th, 1897.","This folder includes a number of biographical cards for local physicians in alphabetical order.","This folder includes two copies of a biographical report on Colonel William T. Poague, dated 1957.","James A. Quarles, Read, Andrew Reid, Samuel McDowell Reid, Richardson, Robinson, John Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pat Robertson, John Ruff, William Ruff, William Henry Ruffner, Schnare, S. M. Schoonmaker, Alfred Chandler Scott, Sellers Family, James Madison Senseney, Abner Terry Sheilds, John Camden Sheilds, Joseph Showalter, John Skinner, Sloan Family, Francis H. Smith, Henry Louis Smith, Beverly Stanard, John R. S. Sterrett, Styles, General Thomas Sumter, John O. Tardy, Lucian Thompson, George Tompkins, John Fulton Tompkins, Harry St. George Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, Dr. Charles Turner, Sidney Vale","This folder includes two reprints of Christmas sermons delivered by James Quarles. No dates available.","This folder contains Pat Robertson's report card from Lexington High School in 1943-1944.","This folder includes a biographical memoir of an \"Early 19th Century Citizen - John M. Ruff.\" Dated December 1987.","This folder contains a bound copy of a biographical report on William Henry Ruffner by Bessie Bare, dated April 10th, 1938. There is a photo included of Ruffner's country home.","This folder contains a bound copy of the magazine \"The Virginia Teacher,\" which includes a biographical story on William Ruffner. Dated October, 1924.","This folder includes a letter from September 10th, 1934 with Henry Louis Smith's signature.","This folder contains a photocopy of John Tardy's 1884 teaching certificate for Rockbridge County schools.","This folder contains three receipts from the Rockbridge County Court and the sheriff's office in the years 1859, 1862, and 1868.","This folder contains a large political cartoon from the Birmingham News-Age Herald with a caricature of Rockbridge born soldier, \"Big\" Sam Dale.","This folder includes photocopies of Henry St. George Tucker's nomination speech to the (August) 1888 Democratic National Convention.","This folder contains a pamphlet for the memorial service of Charles Turner, held at Washinton and Lee University and dated October 9th, 1999. The folder also includes a commemorative \"Five Star General\" ribbon, likely from the ceremony.","Harrington Waddell, James Waddell, James H. Waddell, Maude Waddell, Ned Waddell, Wade, Wallace, William A. 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One photo is dated 1964, and the other is undated.","This folder contains a bound biographical essay on \"Big Foot\" Wallace, written and compiled by Harrington Waddell in 1933.","This folder includes a copy of George McGhee's 1988 essay \"George Washington's Trusteeship over the Estate of the Rev. Dr. Charles Green, 1765-1772, which included the present area of Farmer's Delight Farm, Loudon County, Virginia.\"","This folder includes a December 1969 copy of the \"Jefferson County Historical Society Magazine,\" which a piece written on W.L. 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Campbell, Horace Caruthers, John A. Champe, Chapin family, Chittum, John Coalter, Christopher Columbus, Robert Page Cooke, Mary Beard Copper, Rev. John Craig, Jane Todd Crawford, James S. A. Crawford, Crozet family, Ernest Cummings, and Cunningham family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a manuscript copy of John Lyle Campbell's work \"Silurian Formation in Western Virginia,\"  published in the American Journal of Science and ARts, Vol. XVIII, 1879.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a scrapbook made from a First Presbyterian Church (Asheville, N.C.) program pamphlet and newspaper clippings about Robert Campbell. The pamphlet is from a 1943 memorial of Campbell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a scrapbook with a variety of personal writings, journal entries, and correspondence to and from William Anderson Campbell. Letters date back to 1882. 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No dates available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a number of copies of a poem written by Greenlee Davidson's father commemorating his relationship with his mother following his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3rd, 1863.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a number of copies of a poem written by Greenlee Davidson's father commemorating his relationship with his mother following his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3rd, 1863.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a pamphlet from the Proclamation of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Jefferson Davis on June 3rd, 1908, officially dubbed a Confederate memorial day by the Hollywood Memorial association and endorsed by former Virginia Govenor, Claude A. Swanson. Pamphlet includes a photo of Davis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a pamphlet on Sam Davis written by Dr. H. M. Hamill entitled \"The Story of an Old Fashion Boy,\" from 1908.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a biographical death record in the immediate days following James Dabney Dix's passing by his brother. No dates available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains 19th century ink blotters advertising insurance companies for which Dold was the Lexington agent as well as a biographical sketch of Dold.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge William Effinger, Charles M. Figgat, Richard Fletcher, Augusta B. Fothergill, William Frazier, Jacob Fuller, Francis pendleton Gaines, James E. A. Gibbs, Gilbert McClung Gillespie, Gilmer Family, Ellen Glasgow, Nancy Gravatt, Michael Harmon, Robert Goodloe Harper, Haynes family, David Hays, John Hays, Hays family, Maude Henderson, Hickory Hill, Finley Willson Houston, K. H. Houston, Samuel Houston, Samuel Houston Jr., Rev. Samuel Houston, Thomas D. Houston, Houston Family, James Lewis Howe, Charles Hughes, margaret Jones Hull, Milton Wylie Humphreys, Richard C. Irby, and George Irwin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a teaching certificate for the Rockbridge County public free schools dated August 31, 1873 and a certificate of lifetime membership in the American Colonization Society dated August 25, 1846.  The membership certificate is signed by the Society's president, Henry Clay, and secretary, William McLain.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a pamphlet from the inauguration of Francis Pendleton Gaines as President of Washington and Lee University. Dated October 25th, 1930.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains 6 silver gellatin photographs and one photo negative depicting James Gibbs and his residence. No dates available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes part of newspaper article, \"Ellen Glasgow's Biographer Visits Old Buena Vista Home,\" with photo of author Miss Phyllis Hanson of Norfolk in Green Forest room, holding her manuscript.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a published speech given by Harper at the celebration of the recent triumphs of the cause of mankind in Germany dated January 20, 1814.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains an October 1944 receipt for the sale of \"Hickory Hill,\" a home in Rockbridge County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a bound scrapbook with a variety of stickers and newspaper clipppings. No dates available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a pamphlet written by Sam Houston, dated March 3rd, 1825, which proffers his perspective on 19th century Tennessee state politics.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a detailed biography of Houston and a documents collection. No publication date available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains personal correspondence between George Irwin and his mother, dated December 10th, 1917.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis box contains folders on George Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Chauncy Jerome, Abner Nash Johnson, Mary Eddie Scott Jones, John Jordan, Charles Irwin Junkin, and William F. Junkin.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains personal correspondence between George Jackson and Mrs. Moore regarding real estate. Dated August 17th, 1907.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a copy of \"The Southern Churchman\" from 1944 with a biographical piece on Jackson. Also holds an undated poem from an anoynmous author. 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Two men were killed, Henry Watkins and a black man, by the name of Tom Watson.  An excerpt of this newspaper article, from the Virginia Cavalcade, Summer 1973, is also included in this folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAldine Kieffer, Ann E. Kirkpatrick, James F. Knick, Eva Jordan Krebs, Leech Family, John Legeune, Leguene address, John Letcher, John Letcher Jr., Andrew Lewis, John Lewis, Margaret Lewis, Dr. Alfred Leyburn, John Doak Lilley,\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains two books of sheet music - \"The New Harmonia Sacra: A Compilation of Church Music\" by Joseph Funk's Sons published by Glen Publishing Company Printers in 1826, as well as \"The Star of Bethlehem\" edited by J.H. Hail and J.H. 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Lee's time as President of Washington and Lee, and his time in Lexington.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains four separate portraits of General Robert Edward Lee. All are undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProgram from the Unveiling of the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia. 2nd Edition. Dated 1890.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a pamphlet entitled \"The True Story of General Order No. 9 - General Lee's Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia,\" published by Lee Museum Committee at WLU. Published 1928.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFour copies of \"Ceremonies connected with the Inauguration of the Mausoleum and the Unveiling of the Recumbent Figure of General Robert Edward Lee.\" Dated 1883.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a copy og \"Shenandoah Valley Magazine\" from November 1980 that has a biographical piece on Lee's Lexington Home. 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Fishwick, Historiographer, Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains \"War and Work\" by Colonel William Couper - an address delivered before the Rockbridge County (VA.) Historical Society. Dated April 22nd, 1940.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes two sketched of furnishing inside the former home of Robert E. Lee. Undated.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGeorge Marshall, Bonnie Martin, John Mathews, Mathew F. Maury, Donald McCraig, Ghost McChesney, Thomas Edward McCorkle, McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Hugh White McCrum, Charles McCulloch Jr., Hunter McDonald, Catherine Feland McDowell, Charles R. McDowell, Ephraim McDowell, McDowell Family, McElroy, William McElwee, Henry McLaughlen, Alexander G. McNutt, MacMillon.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes a bound copy of an interview with Bonnie Martin by Eleanor Connor for Lime Kiln Arts, published October 27th, 1994.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a list of miscellaneous stocks written by McChesney. Written January 20th, 1953.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a \"Kappa Alpha Journal\" from March 1935 about Thomas Edward McCorkle.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a pamplhet written by T.S. Gillett, published by Weed Parsons and Company in 1855. The pamphlet describes the court case of Cyrus McCormick against William H. Seymour and Dayton S. 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Furthermore there is a Ephriam McDowell biographical pamphlet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a pamphlet entitled \"Our Pioneer Heroine of Surgery - Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford\" by Mrs. Arthur Thomas McCormack in 1932.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a bound copy of \"Restoration History of the Home of Dr. Ephraim McDowell - Father of Abdominal Surgery: Danville, Kentucky.\" Published in 2000.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains three separate silver gellatin photographs from 1957. One is a depiction of McDowell's statue. The other two depict McDowell's grave and location.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a Capital stock for 10,000 dollars in the name of Michael Miley for Miley Colour Photograph Company. Dated 1902.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a photocopied image made by Michael Miley entitled \"Miley Mosiac.\" No dates available.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains two bound scrapbooks of Virginia Licenses issued to Michael Miley as a daguerreotype artist. Dated from 1866 to 1918.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a list of people who fronted money for the funeral expenses. No dates included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a pamphlet on Reverened William MacCutchen Morrison from June 7th, 1926.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhil Nunn, Frank Padget, Henry Chester Parsons, Alexander Paxton, Elisha F. Paxton, James John Paxton, John A. Paxton, John H. Paxton, John and Phoebe Paxton, Thomas Paxton, William M. Paxton, Pendleton, Alexander Spotswood Pendleton, Edmund Pendleton, James Dudley Pendleton, William C. Pendleton, William J. Pendleton, William Nelson Pendleton, Frances Penick, Mary Monroe Penick, S. G. 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Paxton along with copies of two pieces of writing: \"The Covers\" and \"The Legend of Moaning Falls.\" Dated 1799.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a Cross of Military Service for James Dudley Pendleton dated February 19th, 1890.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains an in memoriam for Reverend William Nelson Pendleton, the rector of Grace Memorial Church. Dated January 15th, 1883.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a personal correspondence between Frances Penick and J.B. Earman. Dated November 11th, 1897.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes a number of biographical cards for local physicians in alphabetical order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder includes two copies of a biographical report on Colonel William T. Poague, dated 1957.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames A. 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Abbott, John Agnor, Andrew Alexander, Archibald Alexander, John Alexander, Louise Houston Alexander, William Alexander, Archer Anderson, Ellen Anderson, Joseph Anderson, William A. Anderson, Armentrout, and Jacob Arnold.","Includes financial deed from 1890, authorized capital bond from Buena Vista Cassimere Mills from 1891, bond from People's National Bank in Lynchburg from 1891, and a hand written bond noting terms of loans from 1893.","This folder includes a biographical essay by Mrs. Henry Drennan Agnew (no date) and a scrapbook, also assembled by Mrs. Henry Agnew, which includes newspaper clippings about Jean Agnew (1934-1935).","This folder contains a photo of Archibald Alexander's house, dated 1845.","This folder includes a 1918 publication on Archer Anderson and his time spent as a director of Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond, Virginia.","This folder contains three gelatin silver photo copies that depict a \"patriotic celebration\" held on behalf of William A. Anderson from 1917. The original photo was developed by J.T. Miller at 28 Main St. Lexington, Virginia.","Includes folders on George A. Baker, Barclay, Mr. and Mrs. Hassie Barry, Thomas H. Benton, Daniel Blain, Mrs. Lewis H. Blair, BlakeyJohn Bower, Dr. Elliott T. Brady, John Mercer Brooke, Brooks Family, Manley Brown, Mary Moore Brown, Sally White Bruce, Thomas Bruce, Samuel Burks, and Burns family","This folder includes two photo negatives that depict George and Mary Baker. The developed portraits are included as well.","This folder includes a bound copy of typed interview transcripts between Hassie Barry and Eleanor Connor on behalf of Lime Kiln Arts from November 12th, 1994. Transcribed by Rockbridge Reports.","Includes folders on Campbell/Houston family, Edmund D. Campbell, Harry D. Campbell, John Lyle Campbell, John Poage Campbell, Leslie Lyle Campbell, Robert F. Campbell, Robert K. Campbell, W. A. Campbell, William S. Campbell, Horace Caruthers, John A. Champe, Chapin family, Chittum, John Coalter, Christopher Columbus, Robert Page Cooke, Mary Beard Copper, Rev. John Craig, Jane Todd Crawford, James S. A. Crawford, Crozet family, Ernest Cummings, and Cunningham family.","This folder includes a manuscript copy of John Lyle Campbell's work \"Silurian Formation in Western Virginia,\"  published in the American Journal of Science and ARts, Vol. XVIII, 1879.","This folder includes a scrapbook made from a First Presbyterian Church (Asheville, N.C.) program pamphlet and newspaper clippings about Robert Campbell. The pamphlet is from a 1943 memorial of Campbell.","This folder contains a scrapbook with a variety of personal writings, journal entries, and correspondence to and from William Anderson Campbell. Letters date back to 1882. Newspaper obituaries are included following personal writing and ephemera.","This folder contains two photos of William S. Campbell as a child and as a young man. No dates available.","Two copies of a pamphlet called 'The Story of Finding the Coffin in which Gen. Robert E. Lee was afterward Buried'","This folder contains 4 photographs that display a 1492 English translation of Christopher Colombus' Log Book on his initial journey to the Americas.","This folder contains a number of publications and complete magazines reflecting on Jane Crawford's abdominal surgery performed by Ephraim McDowell, such as the Kentucky Medical Journal (1979) and Danville Magazine (1972). Furthermore, there is an illustrated print depicting the medical scene (based on a lithograph from 1880).","Includes folders on Samuel Dale, Benjamin Darst, Pierre Daura, Davidson, Charles Andrew Davidson, Greenlee Davidson, James Dorman Davidson, James M. Davidson, Jefferson Davis, Sam Davis, Benjamin Franklin Day, Marquis De Chastellus, Sally Bruce Dickinson, James Dabney Dix, Charles Squier Dod, Calvin M. Dold, Drake, and Dunlap.","This folder contains a woodblock print of a Pierre Daura Christmas card, depicting the birth of Jesus Christ. No dates available.","This folder includes a number of copies of a poem written by Greenlee Davidson's father commemorating his relationship with his mother following his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3rd, 1863.","This folder includes a number of copies of a poem written by Greenlee Davidson's father commemorating his relationship with his mother following his death at the Battle of Chancellorsville on May 3rd, 1863.","This folder contains a pamphlet from the Proclamation of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Jefferson Davis on June 3rd, 1908, officially dubbed a Confederate memorial day by the Hollywood Memorial association and endorsed by former Virginia Govenor, Claude A. Swanson. Pamphlet includes a photo of Davis.","This folder includes a pamphlet on Sam Davis written by Dr. H. M. Hamill entitled \"The Story of an Old Fashion Boy,\" from 1908.","This folder contains a biographical death record in the immediate days following James Dabney Dix's passing by his brother. No dates available.","This folder contains 19th century ink blotters advertising insurance companies for which Dold was the Lexington agent as well as a biographical sketch of Dold.","George William Effinger, Charles M. Figgat, Richard Fletcher, Augusta B. Fothergill, William Frazier, Jacob Fuller, Francis pendleton Gaines, James E. A. Gibbs, Gilbert McClung Gillespie, Gilmer Family, Ellen Glasgow, Nancy Gravatt, Michael Harmon, Robert Goodloe Harper, Haynes family, David Hays, John Hays, Hays family, Maude Henderson, Hickory Hill, Finley Willson Houston, K. H. Houston, Samuel Houston, Samuel Houston Jr., Rev. Samuel Houston, Thomas D. Houston, Houston Family, James Lewis Howe, Charles Hughes, margaret Jones Hull, Milton Wylie Humphreys, Richard C. Irby, and George Irwin.","This folder contains a teaching certificate for the Rockbridge County public free schools dated August 31, 1873 and a certificate of lifetime membership in the American Colonization Society dated August 25, 1846.  The membership certificate is signed by the Society's president, Henry Clay, and secretary, William McLain.","This folder contains a pamphlet from the inauguration of Francis Pendleton Gaines as President of Washington and Lee University. Dated October 25th, 1930.","This folder contains 6 silver gellatin photographs and one photo negative depicting James Gibbs and his residence. No dates available.","Includes part of newspaper article, \"Ellen Glasgow's Biographer Visits Old Buena Vista Home,\" with photo of author Miss Phyllis Hanson of Norfolk in Green Forest room, holding her manuscript.","This folder contains a published speech given by Harper at the celebration of the recent triumphs of the cause of mankind in Germany dated January 20, 1814.","This folder contains an October 1944 receipt for the sale of \"Hickory Hill,\" a home in Rockbridge County.","This folder contains a bound scrapbook with a variety of stickers and newspaper clipppings. No dates available.","This folder contains a pamphlet written by Sam Houston, dated March 3rd, 1825, which proffers his perspective on 19th century Tennessee state politics.","This folder contains a detailed biography of Houston and a documents collection. No publication date available.","This folder contains personal correspondence between George Irwin and his mother, dated December 10th, 1917.","This box contains folders on George Jackson, Thomas Stonewall Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, Chauncy Jerome, Abner Nash Johnson, Mary Eddie Scott Jones, John Jordan, Charles Irwin Junkin, and William F. Junkin.","This folder contains personal correspondence between George Jackson and Mrs. Moore regarding real estate. Dated August 17th, 1907.","This folder contains a copy of \"The Southern Churchman\" from 1944 with a biographical piece on Jackson. Also holds an undated poem from an anoynmous author. Furthermore, there is a silver gellatin photo of a personal correspondence between Jackson and a fellow Confederate General.","This folder contains multiple photo negatives and a developed silver gellatin photograph of a Thomas Jefferson letter related to the Natural Bridge, dated July 1st, 1809. A facsimilie of the letter is also included.","This folder includes a number of photos that portray personal correspondence to and from Johnston, dated between 1798 to 1805. Furthermore the folder has a prize awarded to Anna Johnston in chemistry from the Lexington Female Academy.","This folder contains a copy of the magazine \"The Iron Worker,\" dated August 1957, with a biographical piece on John Jordan.  Also included is a photocopy of a November 7, 1873 Lexington Gazette article, giving the particulars of the blowing up of the Jordan Furnace in Amherst County, on October 28, 1873.  Two men were killed, Henry Watkins and a black man, by the name of Tom Watson.  An excerpt of this newspaper article, from the Virginia Cavalcade, Summer 1973, is also included in this folder.","Aldine Kieffer, Ann E. Kirkpatrick, James F. Knick, Eva Jordan Krebs, Leech Family, John Legeune, Leguene address, John Letcher, John Letcher Jr., Andrew Lewis, John Lewis, Margaret Lewis, Dr. Alfred Leyburn, John Doak Lilley,","This folder contains two books of sheet music - \"The New Harmonia Sacra: A Compilation of Church Music\" by Joseph Funk's Sons published by Glen Publishing Company Printers in 1826, as well as \"The Star of Bethlehem\" edited by J.H. Hail and J.H. Ruebush published 1889.","This folder includes tax forms for the Leech family dated 1889 and 1890, one of which deals with Thomas Leech's military status as a tax exemption.","This folder includes two business cards with John Letcher's signature. No dates available.","This folder includes one photo negative and one developed silver gellatin photograph of John Lewis' home, Fort Lewis, as it stood in 1925 outside of Staunton, Virginia.","Contains undated photo negatives and developed photos of John Blair Lyle's tombstone.","This folder contains a letter between J.H. Letcher and Fitzhugh Lee with his signature. Dated May 25th, 1893.","Original typescript and manuscripts relating to reminiscences of G.W.C. Lee's time as President of Washington and Lee, and his time in Lexington.","This folder contains four separate portraits of General Robert Edward Lee. All are undated.","Program from the Unveiling of the Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia. 2nd Edition. Dated 1890.","This folder includes a pamphlet entitled \"The True Story of General Order No. 9 - General Lee's Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia,\" published by Lee Museum Committee at WLU. Published 1928.","Four copies of \"Ceremonies connected with the Inauguration of the Mausoleum and the Unveiling of the Recumbent Figure of General Robert Edward Lee.\" Dated 1883.","This folder includes a copy og \"Shenandoah Valley Magazine\" from November 1980 that has a biographical piece on Lee's Lexington Home. Also includes Lee Memorial Fund magazine from 1921 and article, \"Where the Past Isn't Even Past,\" by Peter J. Boyer, on the battles dividing Lexington, Virginia, THE WEEKLY STANDARD, November 26, 2018.","This folder contains a copy of the newspaper \"Southern Collegian\" from October 15th, 1870 with the obituary of General Robert E. Lee.","This folder includes a copy of James Power Smith's paper on General Lee at Gettysburg, which was delivered in April 1905. Published by R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans from Richmond, VA.","Soft-bound copy of Southern Collegian, Volume XXXIX, Number 3, \"Lee Number\", Robert E. Lee Centennial.","\"Robert E. Lee: Churchman\", by Marshall W. Fishwick, Historiographer, Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.","This folder contains \"War and Work\" by Colonel William Couper - an address delivered before the Rockbridge County (VA.) Historical Society. Dated April 22nd, 1940.","This folder includes two sketched of furnishing inside the former home of Robert E. Lee. Undated.","George Marshall, Bonnie Martin, John Mathews, Mathew F. Maury, Donald McCraig, Ghost McChesney, Thomas Edward McCorkle, McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Hugh White McCrum, Charles McCulloch Jr., Hunter McDonald, Catherine Feland McDowell, Charles R. McDowell, Ephraim McDowell, McDowell Family, McElroy, William McElwee, Henry McLaughlen, Alexander G. McNutt, MacMillon.","Includes a bound copy of an interview with Bonnie Martin by Eleanor Connor for Lime Kiln Arts, published October 27th, 1994.","This folder includes a list of miscellaneous stocks written by McChesney. Written January 20th, 1953.","This folder includes a \"Kappa Alpha Journal\" from March 1935 about Thomas Edward McCorkle.","This folder includes a pamplhet written by T.S. Gillett, published by Weed Parsons and Company in 1855. The pamphlet describes the court case of Cyrus McCormick against William H. Seymour and Dayton S. Morgan.","This folder includes a brochure for McCormick Farm, as well as a Pamphlet for the McCormick Celebration, which took place on September 25th, 1931.","This folder includes a pamphlet entitled \"The 'Scotts-Irish' of the Valley of Virginia, and their Influence on Medical Progress in America\" by Dr. Hugh Trout, published by Paul B. Hoeber Inc. in 1938. There is also a copy of the Kentucky Medical Journal published in 1933. Furthermore there is a Ephriam McDowell biographical pamphlet.","This folder contains a pamphlet entitled \"Our Pioneer Heroine of Surgery - Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford\" by Mrs. Arthur Thomas McCormack in 1932.","This folder includes a bound copy of \"Restoration History of the Home of Dr. Ephraim McDowell - Father of Abdominal Surgery: Danville, Kentucky.\" Published in 2000.","This folder contains three separate silver gellatin photographs from 1957. One is a depiction of McDowell's statue. The other two depict McDowell's grave and location.","This folder includes a Capital stock for 10,000 dollars in the name of Michael Miley for Miley Colour Photograph Company. Dated 1902.","This folder contains a photocopied image made by Michael Miley entitled \"Miley Mosiac.\" No dates available.","This folder contains two bound scrapbooks of Virginia Licenses issued to Michael Miley as a daguerreotype artist. Dated from 1866 to 1918.","This folder includes a list of people who fronted money for the funeral expenses. No dates included.","This folder includes a pamphlet on Reverened William MacCutchen Morrison from June 7th, 1926.","Phil Nunn, Frank Padget, Henry Chester Parsons, Alexander Paxton, Elisha F. Paxton, James John Paxton, John A. Paxton, John H. Paxton, John and Phoebe Paxton, Thomas Paxton, William M. Paxton, Pendleton, Alexander Spotswood Pendleton, Edmund Pendleton, James Dudley Pendleton, William C. Pendleton, William J. Pendleton, William Nelson Pendleton, Frances Penick, Mary Monroe Penick, S. G. Pettigrew, Physicians, William Franklin Pierson, William T. Poague, Miles Poindexter, Thomas Posey, Preston, Randolph Preston, Beatrice Price, Byron D. Pultz.","This folder includes the a photocopy of a portrait of Phil \"Old Dixie\" Nunn. No dates available.","This folder contains a portrait of Henry Chester Parsons dated 1945.","This folder contains personal correspondence, journal entries, and a jury summons with James John Paxton dated in the 1850s.","This folder includes a flyer for the interred body of Thomas Paxton, dated 1788.","This folder includes a photo of W.M. Paxton along with copies of two pieces of writing: \"The Covers\" and \"The Legend of Moaning Falls.\" Dated 1799.","This folder includes a Cross of Military Service for James Dudley Pendleton dated February 19th, 1890.","This folder contains an in memoriam for Reverend William Nelson Pendleton, the rector of Grace Memorial Church. Dated January 15th, 1883.","This folder contains a personal correspondence between Frances Penick and J.B. Earman. Dated November 11th, 1897.","This folder includes a number of biographical cards for local physicians in alphabetical order.","This folder includes two copies of a biographical report on Colonel William T. Poague, dated 1957.","James A. Quarles, Read, Andrew Reid, Samuel McDowell Reid, Richardson, Robinson, John Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Pat Robertson, John Ruff, William Ruff, William Henry Ruffner, Schnare, S. M. Schoonmaker, Alfred Chandler Scott, Sellers Family, James Madison Senseney, Abner Terry Sheilds, John Camden Sheilds, Joseph Showalter, John Skinner, Sloan Family, Francis H. Smith, Henry Louis Smith, Beverly Stanard, John R. S. Sterrett, Styles, General Thomas Sumter, John O. Tardy, Lucian Thompson, George Tompkins, John Fulton Tompkins, Harry St. George Tucker, Henry St. George Tucker, Dr. Charles Turner, Sidney Vale","This folder includes two reprints of Christmas sermons delivered by James Quarles. No dates available.","This folder contains Pat Robertson's report card from Lexington High School in 1943-1944.","This folder includes a biographical memoir of an \"Early 19th Century Citizen - John M. Ruff.\" Dated December 1987.","This folder contains a bound copy of a biographical report on William Henry Ruffner by Bessie Bare, dated April 10th, 1938. There is a photo included of Ruffner's country home.","This folder contains a bound copy of the magazine \"The Virginia Teacher,\" which includes a biographical story on William Ruffner. Dated October, 1924.","This folder includes a letter from September 10th, 1934 with Henry Louis Smith's signature.","This folder contains a photocopy of John Tardy's 1884 teaching certificate for Rockbridge County schools.","This folder contains three receipts from the Rockbridge County Court and the sheriff's office in the years 1859, 1862, and 1868.","This folder contains a large political cartoon from the Birmingham News-Age Herald with a caricature of Rockbridge born soldier, \"Big\" Sam Dale.","This folder includes photocopies of Henry St. George Tucker's nomination speech to the (August) 1888 Democratic National Convention.","This folder contains a pamphlet for the memorial service of Charles Turner, held at Washinton and Lee University and dated October 9th, 1999. The folder also includes a commemorative \"Five Star General\" ribbon, likely from the ceremony.","Harrington Waddell, James Waddell, James H. Waddell, Maude Waddell, Ned Waddell, Wade, Wallace, William A. 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(Leslie Lyle)","Houston, Sam, 1793 - 1863","Alexander, John, Major","Tucker, St. George, I","Paxton, Elizabeth Alexander","Ruffner, William Henry","Graham, Archibald","Tucker, Henry St. George, I","Benton, Thomas Hart","Tucker, John Randolph","Dunlap, Madison","Hanna, Matthew","Grigsby, Reuben","Dance, William Spencer, 1788-1858","Houston, Margaret Moffette Lea","English","box 1","folder 1-50"],"title_filing_ssi":"General through Houston House","title_ssm":["General through Houston House"],"title_tesim":["General through Houston House"],"normalized_title_ssm":["General through Houston House"],"component_level_isim":[1],"repository_ssim":["Washington and Lee University, Leyburn Library"],"collection_ssim":["Rockbridge Historical Society files on Houses"],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"child_component_count_isi":45,"level_ssm":["Series"],"level_ssim":["Series"],"sort_isi":1,"parent_access_restrict_tesm":["This collection is open for research use."],"parent_access_terms_tesm":["The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. 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L. (Leslie Lyle)","Houston, Sam, 1793 - 1863","Alexander, John, Major","Tucker, St. George, I","Paxton, Elizabeth Alexander","Ruffner, William Henry","Graham, Archibald","Tucker, Henry St. George, I","Benton, Thomas Hart","Tucker, John Randolph","Dunlap, Madison","Hanna, Matthew","Grigsby, Reuben","Dance, William Spencer, 1788-1858","Houston, Margaret Moffette Lea"],"corpname_ssim":["Virginia Military Institute","Liberty Hall Academy (Lexington, Va.)","Washington and Lee University","Washington and Lee University. Reeves Center","Washington and Lee University. Chapel","Washington and Lee University. Lee House. 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(Leslie Lyle)","Houston, Sam, 1793 - 1863","Borden, Benjamin, Sr.","Alexander, John, Major","Tompkins, Edmund Pendleton","Tucker, St. George, I","Paxton, Elizabeth Alexander","Alexander, John, Major","Ruffner, William Henry","Graham, Archibald","Tucker, Henry St. George, I","Benton, Thomas Hart","Tucker, John Randolph","Tucker, Henry St. George, I","Dunlap, Madison","Simpson, Pamela Hemenway","Hanna, Matthew","Grigsby, Reuben","Dance, William Spencer, 1788-1858","Houston, Sam, 1793 - 1863","Houston, Margaret Moffette Lea","Houston, Sam, 1793 - 1863"],"language_ssim":["English"],"containers_ssim":["box 1","folder 1-50"],"_nest_path_":"/components#0","timestamp":"2026-05-20T21:04:55.013Z","collection":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"numFoundExact":true,"docs":[{"id":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_1043","ead_ssi":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_1043","_root_":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_1043","_nest_parent_":"vilxw_repositories_5_resources_1043","ead_source_url_ssi":"data/oai/WLU/repositories_5_resources_1043.xml","title_ssm":["Rockbridge Historical Society files on Houses"],"title_tesim":["Rockbridge Historical Society files on Houses"],"unitdate_ssm":["1800-1995"],"unitdate_bulk_ssim":["1800-1995"],"level_ssm":["collection"],"level_ssim":["Collection"],"unitid_ssm":["RHS.Coll.0059","/repositories/5/resources/1043"],"text":["RHS.Coll.0059","/repositories/5/resources/1043","Rockbridge Historical Society files on Houses","Virginia -- Lexington","Virginia -- Rockbridge County","Photography","Housing","Buildings","Historic buildings","Historic buildings -- Conservation","Historic buildings -- Preservation","This collection is open for research use.","See also Washington and Lee Misc. collection, Houses: Alexander, William and Student Papers.","For more materials related to Blandome, see the Walker-Wood Collection (WLU-Coll-0294).","This collection consists of essays, reports, financial documentation, and other historic records documenting the presence, arcitecture, development, or evolution of local houses in and around Rockbridge County and Lexington, Virginia.","This file consists of general files from Lexington City offices and the Historic American Buildings survey inventory detailing origins of numerous historic houses. Includes Clifton House, unnamed Natural Bridge House, Halfway House, King and Anne's Manor (formerly Roseland and the White House), Lebanon Prebsyterian Church, unnamed Alone Mill house, Mackey's Tavern, Neriah Bapist Church, Pendleton-Coles House, the Red House, Rockbridge Alum Springs, Sleepy Hollow (Old Withrow Place, and later Patterson place), Stone Cottage, Tuckaway, Virginia Manor (originally Fleming-Greenlee Plantation), Walkerlands, Whistle Creek, and White Hall.","This file consists of two copies of introductory notes to the Rockbridge Heritage House tour for the years 1969 and 1970. The convered houses in the notes have historical backgrounds. The following houses appear in the notes: Alexander-Withrow House, VMI Superintendent's Quarters, Stono, Clifton, Maple Hill, Timber Ridge Church, Horatio Thompson House, The Red House, Mulberry Grove, New Providence Presbyterian Church, Briarwood, Bellevue, Maxwelton, Level Loop, Windy Glen, Cedar Grove, Reeves Collection, Washington Hall, Lee Chapel, President's House, University Place, Blandome, Beaumont, the Manse, Marlbrook, Hickory Hill, Stonewall Jackson Cemetary (now Oak Grove), Red Mill (also known as Barclay's Tavern), Stone Castle, Herring Hall (formerly know as Clover Hall), and Fancy Hill.","This file consists of materials related to the Historic Lexington Foundation, including the information on the property acquistion of the Jacob M. Ruff House, a pamphlet on the Historic Lexington Foundation and its work on the Alexander-Withrow house (corner of Main and Washington St), an invitation to the Historic Lexington Foundation's Parking Lot Party behind the Central Hotel, and remarks from the first annual Historic Lexington Foundation Dinner.","This file consists of a Rockbridge County News article on historic houses and land donations given to the county, as well as a typescript essay entitled \"Historic and Romantic Balcony Downs,\" which recounts early Rockbridge County conflict with Native Americans.","This file consists of a newspaper article entitled \"Preservation of Old Buildings Is Commended\" by Ellen G. Anderson. The contents of the article are related to various Lexington and Rockbridge County Sites that had historic preservation efforts.","This file consists of three newspaper articles, two of which are from Rockbridge County News, which all provide general histories of a variety of historic homes in the Lexington and Rockbridge Area. The file also includes a typescript essay on old homes in and near Lexington, as well as a housing bond and appraisal letter from Gauranty Bond and Mortgage Company in Richmond, Virginia.","This file consists of unlabeled photo negatives of historic Lexington Houses, likely taken by a representative or member of the Rockbridge Hisorical Society. No dates.","This file consists of a typescript essay entitled \"Two Forgotten College Houses.\"","This file consists of the handwritten draft of \"The Forgotten College Houses.\"","This file consists of a typescript one page essay about the history and origins of the Alexander-Withrow house. No date or listed author.","This file consists of an article from the City, County State News of the Times entitled \"Historic Foundation Buys Old Building in Lexington.\"","This file consists of a letter from Katherine Eichelberger to Mary Monroe, and includes a brief mention of the cottage.","This file consists of an article entitled \"The 'Bacon House' History is Given,\" which describes the origin and family history of the residents of the Bacon House. No date, no author.","This file consists of a typescript coopy of a letter with the title \"The Bacon Home - Extracts from a Letter of Jennie Bacon Lacy.\" The letter includes familial information and a history of the house from the perspective of a family member.","This file consists of a brochure for Balcony Falls, which provides pricing for nights and stays, directions, basic historic background, and a map.","This file consists of an essay about Balcony Downs, detailing its history and also includes a critical evaluation of its architectural style. No date, no author.","This file consists of a research report relating to the Barclay House in Lexington. Information in the report was gathered during an archaelogical investigation at the Barclay House.","This file consists of a book about Belfield, detailing its origins and architectural features. Includes a floor plan, images of the interior of the house, and a map of where it is located on a map.","This file consists of a typescript note on \"Belfont,\" including information on the historic orgins and architectural style of the home.","This file contains an insurance policy for the amount of forty five hundred dollars for a house owned by Judith Bulter between the gates of V.M.I. and Washington and Lee. The insurance company is Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance company, based out of New York City in the United States branch.","This file consists of a typescript essay on Blandome, detailing its ownership history, including how it became the property of prominent Black family in Lexington, the Walkers and Woods. Includes two photos of Blandome.","This file consists of a historic and architectural analysis of the Brady House at Buffalo Forge. The manuscript includes information on the construction of the forge, as well as first hand stories from the Brady's relayed to the author of the manuscript. Also includes photographs of key architectural features and sketches of forge design. Includes sketched floorplan. Written by Toon Tellegen.","This file consists of two copies of terms of agreement and contract for repair on the Campbell house located at 101 E. Washington Street, as well as a letter from Allie Waddell Hedges to the Rockbridge Historical Society concerning the same house.","This file consists of one undated printed image of a building with the caption \"the castle.\"","This file consists of a newspaper article on the Church Hill house.","This file consists of a manuscript copy of \"Clifton: Maury River House,\" written for the Ignorance Club in Lexington, Virginia by Elizabeth Harralson. The manuscript focuses on William Alexander, although it's historical analysis ranges back to Benjamin Borden. Includes historical and architectural descriptions and analysis of the title house.","This file consists of handwritten notes, a typescript essay, and photos which depict or concern the Clifton home. There are four photos which show the exterior of the building. The typescript essay details the architecture and features of the building.","This file consists of a typescript paper on the ownership of the Clifton House on the corner of McDowell and Jefferson streets. Also includes a handwritten note on the Clifton house and its relationship to the Alexander family.","This file consists of handwritten notes by Dr. E.P. Tompkins on the history of \"Clifton at East Lexington.\" Includes information on the origin of the name, the history of ownership, and notes directly on the Alexander family. Includes some genealogical information about the Alexander family, including a list of children and descendants.","This file consists of a typescript essay on the history of visitors, architecture, and ownership of Col Alto, a Roanoke Times article on a lawn party held at Col Alto, a letter from Mrs. Gordon G. Heiner, Jr. to Don Bruce McClelland related to a murder near Col Alto, and a printed copy of a Hampton Inn's historical description of the building.","This file consists of a Mead Associates real estate services document noting the special features, lot and dimensions, building area, condition, annual taxes, price, potential uses, and zoning of the Davidson-Tucker House.","This file consists of a letter to W.T. SHilder from Mrs. G.E. Wade concerning sketches and sketched floor plans on the Daugherty House, as well as a copy of the sketched floor plans, and Aetna Insurance Company policy papers for the house.","This file consists of a paper/presentation materials written by Nanlou Sauder presented to the Ignorance Club on the topic of \"Madison Dunlap, David Lowman, and Miller's Mill\" (3162 West Midland Trail @ Kerrs Creek).","This file consists of a bound manuscript of Mark Smulson's essay \"Fancy Hill: A Study of Pre-Bellum Rockbridge County, Virginia Home.\" Includes sketches and photographs of the house. Topics cover the history of the house, architectural features, Fancy Hill Academy, and ownership of the property. Places the house in conversation with other greater American architectural trends. Includes sketch of floor plan.","This file consists of a copy of ledgers, account books, and general collection papers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's \"Frederick's Hall Plantation Ledgers and other volumes #1422\" from the Southern Historical Society in Wilson Library. From their finding aid - \"There is a letter copybook, 1757-1775, of Major John Snelson, probably a descendant of Elizabeth Snelson (fl. 1727-1728). Snelson wrote chiefly to Edward Harford, Jr., of England about tobacco shipments and imported merchandise. The relationship between this volume and the others is also unclear. Colonial-era merchants represented in ledgers include Colonel John Chisolm (d. 1766), A. Gordon (fl. 1750-1751), and William Montgomery (fl. 1751), all of Hanover County. Activities documented in these ledgers include tobacco sales and mining and mineral export, the daily work of merchants, and importing operations. Activities documented in the antebellum ledgers from Frederick's Hall include lumber production, manufacture and sale of shoes, tobacco production and trade, and merchandizing. There is also some information on wages for slaves and free laborers. Sheet music for an 1854 polka is also included.\"","This folder contains drafts of the first chapter of Pam Simpson's book, entitled \"Architecture of Rockbridge County,\" as well as notes, blueprints and pictures of the buildings discussed in the book.","This folder contains a copy of a Lexington Gazette article from 1931 concerning Matthew Hanna, his daughters, and the house in which they lived, then owned by \"Mrs. Gibbs.\" It also details a 1796 fire which destroyed much of Lexington and was partially extinguished by Hanna's daughters. It goes on to discuss the marriage of Hanna's eldest daughter to Rev. Daniel Blain, and the marriage of another daughter to Rev. Samuel B. Wilson.","This folder contains Herring Hall Inn and Restaurant pamphlets, which include a small map showing the location of Herring Hall and contact information.","This folder contains a map of Rockbridge County showing the location of the Grigsby homes; a 1936 article entitled \"Seven Hills of Rockbridge,\" detailing information on Rose Hill, Fancy Hill, Liberty Hill, Cherry Hill, Fruit Hill, Clover Hill, and Hickory Hill, seven old homes in the Natural Bridge area; a letter to Mr. Knick, then owner of Fancy Hill home, from Mrs. J. R. McNutt, containing information about Fancy Hill and the Grigsby family; photographs of Hickory Hill, Cherry Hill, and Fancy Hill; and various notes on the Grigsby family homes.","This folder contains a tablet template which includes information about the Homestead house, built around 1818, and its builder, William Spencer Dance, and his wife, Mary Page Branch.","This folder contains two archaeological land survey reports done for an anthropology class (college unknown) written in 1984 by students David Gomer and Kevin Patrick Marrie. Gomer's report is missing pages and Marrie's report is addressed to a Dr. McDaniel.","This folder contains two newspaper articles about the Mrs. Sam Houston House, a Greek Revival house in Independence, TX, into which Margaret Houston and her eight children moved after her husband's death.","This folder contains notes on the birthplace of Sam Houston, including notes from Captain H.E. Thompson, whose family then owned the land.","This folder contains a tablet template which includes information about the Houston House, built before 1830 and inhabited by Livingston Waddell and Hale Houston.","This folder contains an architectural and historical survey of the Hull Farm (also known as Laughlin Farm), including photographs and blueprints, written by James A. Russ in 1961.","This folder contains a letter from Nannie Jordan and a resolution concerning the restoration of the Jordan House adopted by the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University.","This folder contains newspaper articles about the Jordan House and its preservation, as well as two copies of a paper entitled, \"The Preservation of the Jordan House: A Suggestion,\" written in 1939 by Leslie Lyle Campbell.","This folder contains an insurance application for the Kinney House.","This folder contains notes on Liberty Hill, Thomas Welch, Jr. and Eliza Grigsby, as well as photocopied images of Liberty Hill and a map.","This folder contains an analysis of the Lindsay Home, including photographs. The analysis discusses the home's owners, including John Paul Cook, as well as the structure of the house.","This folder contains a report on the Ludwick-Swope farm, including a brief history of Rockbridge County, maps and photographs of the area, blueprints, a discussion of early farming practices, and excerpts from a will book and deed book.","This folder contains a report on the Lunsford House, including a history of the building and land, structural information, and blueprints and photographs of the house.","This folder contains a newspaper article about the McCampbell Inn, owned by the Merediths (along with the Alexander-Withrow House). The article discusses the restoration of the McCampbell Inn as well as detailing information about Beth Braford Thompson, the innkeeper.","This folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class entitled, \"The McChesney House.\" The paper discusses John McChesney, his family and slaves, more specifically a slave named Maria, and her experiences and connection to strange occurrences in the area. It also discusses the Civil War and its effects on the McChesney family as well as structural information about and photographs of the house.","This folder contains a sketch of the inscription over the kitchen door at Marlbrook, built by David Greenlee.","This folder contains a newspaper article concerning the Matheny House and its removal from Main Street.","This folder contains a newspaper article about the history of Middleton \"Mansion House.\"","This folder contains personal recollections from Ellen Anderson concerning Mount Joy, including the history of the property and its owners.","This folder contains a history of Mount Pleasant, located in Buffalo Forge, including information about the land.","This folder contains part of an article from Harper's New Monthly Magazine titled, \"Mount Vernon as It Is.\" This article discusses George Washington and his home in depth.","This folder contains a pamphlet about Mulberry Hill, detailing historical information and the portraits in each room, as well as a picture of Mulberry Hill.","This folder contains seven pieces of paper, along with a typed version, discussing different buildings in Natural Bridge: Red Mill, High Bridge Church, Stone Castle, Sunny Knoll, Rural Valley, Oak Forest, and Indian Block-House.","This folder contains notes on and photographs of the Paxton Place. The notes discuss the various owners of the land and house, including R. Tate Alexander and various Paxton family members, physical attributes of the land such as soil type, and a walkthrough of the floorplan.","This folder contains a report on Pine Hill Farm, built around 1825, which discusses the owners, Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Perkins, Plank Road, nearby taverns, and other inhabitants as well as the builder Nathaniel Rowlinson. There is also a walkthrough of the floorplan and photographs of the house.","This folder contains a report on Plunkett House, including owners of the house such as James Jordan, J.C. Boode, and Mrs. Minne Reed Brown; the physical location of the house and its surroundings; photographs of the house and a floorplan.","This folder contains a booklet entitled, \"Point of Honor: Its Past and Its Potential\" by S. Allen Chambers, Jr. The booklet discusses the history of ownership, including the Lynch family, Dr. George Cabell and his son William Lewis Cabell, Col. Maurice Langhorne, Judge William Daniel, and James R. Gilliam; the architectural significance of the house, and the reasoning behind and suggestions for its preservation.","This folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class entitled, \"The Historical Survey of Poplar Forest,\" which is in Bedford County, written by E.M. Barber. Poplar Forest was a home used by Thomas Jefferson as a retreat from Monticello; he inherited it from his wife, along with 135 slaves, which she had inherited from her father. The paper also talks about renovations made by Jefferson, as well as structural notes, photographs, and a floorplan.","This folder contains a report on Red House, a home near Fairfield on the west side of Route 11. The report covers the history of the house and its inhabitants, including the McDowells, the Treavys, the Laymans and the Alexanders; information about the physical house, landscaping, and the McDowell Burying Ground, farm, and orchard; and photographs of the house and surrounding land. Also contained is a newspaper (Lexington Gazette) article about Red House and the McDowells.","This folder contains two copies of a newspaper article about Riverside, home of the Shields family. The article discusses the history of the house and the Shields family.","This folder contains notes on Rock Castle, which include structural information as well as information about the owners and inhabitants, including Mrs. Herbert Van Der Veer and Samuel Campbell.","This folder contains a newspaper article about the history of Savernake, owned by the Dickinson family.","This folder contains two copies of a report on the Senseny House in Lexington, written by Pat Dennis. This house was first built (by John Leyburn, John Parry, Josh Jordan, Andrew Wallace, William Letcher, Reuben Ross, Joseph Blair, Samuel Darst, John Caruthers, and John Ruff) as a schoolhouse. The report then discusses the various owners and uses of the building, including a school for black children bought by Nathan C. Brackett and a house bought by James Madison Senseny and eventually willed to Ellen M. Cupp and H. Greenley Senseny and later was rented by Washington and Lee University students. Finally, structural information is given about the house.","This folder contains a report on Silverwood, a home built by General E. Frank Paxton in 1857 and later sold to Judge John White Brockenbrough and wife Mary Caldwell. The report discusses other owners, including Judge James Kerr Edmondson and wife Emily, and Mary K. Monroe Robinson and husband Edward (descended from the Lyles and Grahams); a physical description of the house and its renovations; and historical information about the owners and their children.","This folder contains a bound report (written in 1942) on Silverwood, a home built by General E. Frank Paxton in 1857 and later sold to Judge John White Brockenbrough and wife Mary Caldwell. The report discusses other owners, including Judge James Kerr Edmondson and wife Emily, and Mary K. Monroe Robinson and husband Edward (descended from the Lyles and Grahams); a physical description of the house and its renovations; and historical information about the owners and their children.","This folder contains an article on the Sloan and Campbell houses, which discuss the builder Alexander T. Sloan and the buildings themselves. Also included is a report on the history of the Sloan House, including floorplans.","This folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class, written by Dick Lovegrove in 1953, about Spring Meadows, the home of Colonel and Mrs. G.A. Derbyshire. The paper discusses structural information about the house as well as information about the owners and sellers.","This folder contains a newspaper article and notes about Stone Castle, inhabited by the Johnstones.","This folder contains a report on the Stone Castle Farm and its owners.","This folder contains a newspaper article, notes, and photographs of Stono, originally known as Jordan's Point and built by Colonel John Jordan. The article and notes discuss owners, including John L. Campbell, Mrs. Anne R. Howell, and William J. Driver. It also discusses the Virginia Military Institute, near which Stono stands.","This folder contains a report and field notes on Sunnyside and its various owners, including Richard Woods and John Greenlee, and photographs and blueprints of the house and land.","This folder contains two copies of a newspaper article about Teaford Inn, located in Kerr's Creek. The articles discusses the history of the Inn and the Teaford family.","This folder contains a report on Thorn Hill and its inhabitants, including General John Bowyer and Mrs. John White Brockenbrough, photographs, blueprints, and floorplans. Also included photocopies of newspaper articles and a declaration for assurance for Thorn Hill.","This folder contains a report and various notes on Thorn Hill and its inhabitants, including General John Bowyer, a trustee of Washington College.","This folder contains an insurance form for the Tomlinson House.","This folder contains photographs of and a report about Tuckaway, a house built by John Stockdale in 1777. The report discusses structural information about the house as well as floorplans.","This folder contains a report about the Valley of Virginia, which lies between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Alleghenies. The report discusses the architecture in the area and nearby towns.","This folder contains notes on the Waddell House and Livingston Waddell.","This folder contains a report entitled, \"History of Old Walkerlands Farm\" by Mary Moore Mason. It discusses the owners, including Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edward Mason, James Moore, and James A. Walker; and structural information about the farm.","The contents of this file have been moved to folder 34 of the same collection (Misc. RHS-Coll-0077: Houses, Folder 34: Dougherty, Febraury 5th, 2020 by SMG).","The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law. The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used should be fully credited with the source. Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.","Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives","Virginia Military Institute","Liberty Hall Academy (Lexington, Va.)","Washington and Lee University","Washington and Lee University. 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Includes Clifton House, unnamed Natural Bridge House, Halfway House, King and Anne's Manor (formerly Roseland and the White House), Lebanon Prebsyterian Church, unnamed Alone Mill house, Mackey's Tavern, Neriah Bapist Church, Pendleton-Coles House, the Red House, Rockbridge Alum Springs, Sleepy Hollow (Old Withrow Place, and later Patterson place), Stone Cottage, Tuckaway, Virginia Manor (originally Fleming-Greenlee Plantation), Walkerlands, Whistle Creek, and White Hall.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of two copies of introductory notes to the Rockbridge Heritage House tour for the years 1969 and 1970. The convered houses in the notes have historical backgrounds. The following houses appear in the notes: Alexander-Withrow House, VMI Superintendent's Quarters, Stono, Clifton, Maple Hill, Timber Ridge Church, Horatio Thompson House, The Red House, Mulberry Grove, New Providence Presbyterian Church, Briarwood, Bellevue, Maxwelton, Level Loop, Windy Glen, Cedar Grove, Reeves Collection, Washington Hall, Lee Chapel, President's House, University Place, Blandome, Beaumont, the Manse, Marlbrook, Hickory Hill, Stonewall Jackson Cemetary (now Oak Grove), Red Mill (also known as Barclay's Tavern), Stone Castle, Herring Hall (formerly know as Clover Hall), and Fancy Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of materials related to the Historic Lexington Foundation, including the information on the property acquistion of the Jacob M. Ruff House, a pamphlet on the Historic Lexington Foundation and its work on the Alexander-Withrow house (corner of Main and Washington St), an invitation to the Historic Lexington Foundation's Parking Lot Party behind the Central Hotel, and remarks from the first annual Historic Lexington Foundation Dinner.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a Rockbridge County News article on historic houses and land donations given to the county, as well as a typescript essay entitled \"Historic and Romantic Balcony Downs,\" which recounts early Rockbridge County conflict with Native Americans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a newspaper article entitled \"Preservation of Old Buildings Is Commended\" by Ellen G. Anderson. The contents of the article are related to various Lexington and Rockbridge County Sites that had historic preservation efforts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of three newspaper articles, two of which are from Rockbridge County News, which all provide general histories of a variety of historic homes in the Lexington and Rockbridge Area. The file also includes a typescript essay on old homes in and near Lexington, as well as a housing bond and appraisal letter from Gauranty Bond and Mortgage Company in Richmond, Virginia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of unlabeled photo negatives of historic Lexington Houses, likely taken by a representative or member of the Rockbridge Hisorical Society. No dates.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a typescript essay entitled \"Two Forgotten College Houses.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of the handwritten draft of \"The Forgotten College Houses.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a typescript one page essay about the history and origins of the Alexander-Withrow house. No date or listed author.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of an article from the City, County State News of the Times entitled \"Historic Foundation Buys Old Building in Lexington.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a letter from Katherine Eichelberger to Mary Monroe, and includes a brief mention of the cottage.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of an article entitled \"The 'Bacon House' History is Given,\" which describes the origin and family history of the residents of the Bacon House. No date, no author.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a typescript coopy of a letter with the title \"The Bacon Home - Extracts from a Letter of Jennie Bacon Lacy.\" The letter includes familial information and a history of the house from the perspective of a family member.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a brochure for Balcony Falls, which provides pricing for nights and stays, directions, basic historic background, and a map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of an essay about Balcony Downs, detailing its history and also includes a critical evaluation of its architectural style. No date, no author.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a research report relating to the Barclay House in Lexington. Information in the report was gathered during an archaelogical investigation at the Barclay House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a book about Belfield, detailing its origins and architectural features. Includes a floor plan, images of the interior of the house, and a map of where it is located on a map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a typescript note on \"Belfont,\" including information on the historic orgins and architectural style of the home.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file contains an insurance policy for the amount of forty five hundred dollars for a house owned by Judith Bulter between the gates of V.M.I. and Washington and Lee. The insurance company is Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance company, based out of New York City in the United States branch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a typescript essay on Blandome, detailing its ownership history, including how it became the property of prominent Black family in Lexington, the Walkers and Woods. Includes two photos of Blandome.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a historic and architectural analysis of the Brady House at Buffalo Forge. The manuscript includes information on the construction of the forge, as well as first hand stories from the Brady's relayed to the author of the manuscript. Also includes photographs of key architectural features and sketches of forge design. Includes sketched floorplan. Written by Toon Tellegen.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of two copies of terms of agreement and contract for repair on the Campbell house located at 101 E. Washington Street, as well as a letter from Allie Waddell Hedges to the Rockbridge Historical Society concerning the same house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of one undated printed image of a building with the caption \"the castle.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a newspaper article on the Church Hill house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a manuscript copy of \"Clifton: Maury River House,\" written for the Ignorance Club in Lexington, Virginia by Elizabeth Harralson. The manuscript focuses on William Alexander, although it's historical analysis ranges back to Benjamin Borden. Includes historical and architectural descriptions and analysis of the title house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of handwritten notes, a typescript essay, and photos which depict or concern the Clifton home. There are four photos which show the exterior of the building. The typescript essay details the architecture and features of the building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a typescript paper on the ownership of the Clifton House on the corner of McDowell and Jefferson streets. Also includes a handwritten note on the Clifton house and its relationship to the Alexander family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of handwritten notes by Dr. E.P. Tompkins on the history of \"Clifton at East Lexington.\" Includes information on the origin of the name, the history of ownership, and notes directly on the Alexander family. Includes some genealogical information about the Alexander family, including a list of children and descendants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a typescript essay on the history of visitors, architecture, and ownership of Col Alto, a Roanoke Times article on a lawn party held at Col Alto, a letter from Mrs. Gordon G. Heiner, Jr. to Don Bruce McClelland related to a murder near Col Alto, and a printed copy of a Hampton Inn's historical description of the building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a Mead Associates real estate services document noting the special features, lot and dimensions, building area, condition, annual taxes, price, potential uses, and zoning of the Davidson-Tucker House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a letter to W.T. SHilder from Mrs. G.E. Wade concerning sketches and sketched floor plans on the Daugherty House, as well as a copy of the sketched floor plans, and Aetna Insurance Company policy papers for the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a paper/presentation materials written by Nanlou Sauder presented to the Ignorance Club on the topic of \"Madison Dunlap, David Lowman, and Miller's Mill\" (3162 West Midland Trail @ Kerrs Creek).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a bound manuscript of Mark Smulson's essay \"Fancy Hill: A Study of Pre-Bellum Rockbridge County, Virginia Home.\" Includes sketches and photographs of the house. Topics cover the history of the house, architectural features, Fancy Hill Academy, and ownership of the property. Places the house in conversation with other greater American architectural trends. Includes sketch of floor plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis file consists of a copy of ledgers, account books, and general collection papers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's \"Frederick's Hall Plantation Ledgers and other volumes #1422\" from the Southern Historical Society in Wilson Library. From their finding aid - \"There is a letter copybook, 1757-1775, of Major John Snelson, probably a descendant of Elizabeth Snelson (fl. 1727-1728). Snelson wrote chiefly to Edward Harford, Jr., of England about tobacco shipments and imported merchandise. The relationship between this volume and the others is also unclear. Colonial-era merchants represented in ledgers include Colonel John Chisolm (d. 1766), A. Gordon (fl. 1750-1751), and William Montgomery (fl. 1751), all of Hanover County. Activities documented in these ledgers include tobacco sales and mining and mineral export, the daily work of merchants, and importing operations. Activities documented in the antebellum ledgers from Frederick's Hall include lumber production, manufacture and sale of shoes, tobacco production and trade, and merchandizing. There is also some information on wages for slaves and free laborers. Sheet music for an 1854 polka is also included.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains drafts of the first chapter of Pam Simpson's book, entitled \"Architecture of Rockbridge County,\" as well as notes, blueprints and pictures of the buildings discussed in the book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a copy of a Lexington Gazette article from 1931 concerning Matthew Hanna, his daughters, and the house in which they lived, then owned by \"Mrs. Gibbs.\" It also details a 1796 fire which destroyed much of Lexington and was partially extinguished by Hanna's daughters. It goes on to discuss the marriage of Hanna's eldest daughter to Rev. Daniel Blain, and the marriage of another daughter to Rev. Samuel B. Wilson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains Herring Hall Inn and Restaurant pamphlets, which include a small map showing the location of Herring Hall and contact information.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a map of Rockbridge County showing the location of the Grigsby homes; a 1936 article entitled \"Seven Hills of Rockbridge,\" detailing information on Rose Hill, Fancy Hill, Liberty Hill, Cherry Hill, Fruit Hill, Clover Hill, and Hickory Hill, seven old homes in the Natural Bridge area; a letter to Mr. Knick, then owner of Fancy Hill home, from Mrs. J. R. McNutt, containing information about Fancy Hill and the Grigsby family; photographs of Hickory Hill, Cherry Hill, and Fancy Hill; and various notes on the Grigsby family homes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a tablet template which includes information about the Homestead house, built around 1818, and its builder, William Spencer Dance, and his wife, Mary Page Branch.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains two archaeological land survey reports done for an anthropology class (college unknown) written in 1984 by students David Gomer and Kevin Patrick Marrie. Gomer's report is missing pages and Marrie's report is addressed to a Dr. McDaniel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains two newspaper articles about the Mrs. Sam Houston House, a Greek Revival house in Independence, TX, into which Margaret Houston and her eight children moved after her husband's death.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains notes on the birthplace of Sam Houston, including notes from Captain H.E. Thompson, whose family then owned the land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a tablet template which includes information about the Houston House, built before 1830 and inhabited by Livingston Waddell and Hale Houston.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains an architectural and historical survey of the Hull Farm (also known as Laughlin Farm), including photographs and blueprints, written by James A. Russ in 1961.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a letter from Nannie Jordan and a resolution concerning the restoration of the Jordan House adopted by the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains newspaper articles about the Jordan House and its preservation, as well as two copies of a paper entitled, \"The Preservation of the Jordan House: A Suggestion,\" written in 1939 by Leslie Lyle Campbell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains an insurance application for the Kinney House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains notes on Liberty Hill, Thomas Welch, Jr. and Eliza Grigsby, as well as photocopied images of Liberty Hill and a map.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains an analysis of the Lindsay Home, including photographs. The analysis discusses the home's owners, including John Paul Cook, as well as the structure of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report on the Ludwick-Swope farm, including a brief history of Rockbridge County, maps and photographs of the area, blueprints, a discussion of early farming practices, and excerpts from a will book and deed book.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report on the Lunsford House, including a history of the building and land, structural information, and blueprints and photographs of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a newspaper article about the McCampbell Inn, owned by the Merediths (along with the Alexander-Withrow House). The article discusses the restoration of the McCampbell Inn as well as detailing information about Beth Braford Thompson, the innkeeper.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class entitled, \"The McChesney House.\" The paper discusses John McChesney, his family and slaves, more specifically a slave named Maria, and her experiences and connection to strange occurrences in the area. It also discusses the Civil War and its effects on the McChesney family as well as structural information about and photographs of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a sketch of the inscription over the kitchen door at Marlbrook, built by David Greenlee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a newspaper article concerning the Matheny House and its removal from Main Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a newspaper article about the history of Middleton \"Mansion House.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains personal recollections from Ellen Anderson concerning Mount Joy, including the history of the property and its owners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a history of Mount Pleasant, located in Buffalo Forge, including information about the land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains part of an article from Harper's New Monthly Magazine titled, \"Mount Vernon as It Is.\" This article discusses George Washington and his home in depth.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a pamphlet about Mulberry Hill, detailing historical information and the portraits in each room, as well as a picture of Mulberry Hill.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains seven pieces of paper, along with a typed version, discussing different buildings in Natural Bridge: Red Mill, High Bridge Church, Stone Castle, Sunny Knoll, Rural Valley, Oak Forest, and Indian Block-House.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains notes on and photographs of the Paxton Place. The notes discuss the various owners of the land and house, including R. Tate Alexander and various Paxton family members, physical attributes of the land such as soil type, and a walkthrough of the floorplan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report on Pine Hill Farm, built around 1825, which discusses the owners, Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Perkins, Plank Road, nearby taverns, and other inhabitants as well as the builder Nathaniel Rowlinson. There is also a walkthrough of the floorplan and photographs of the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report on Plunkett House, including owners of the house such as James Jordan, J.C. Boode, and Mrs. Minne Reed Brown; the physical location of the house and its surroundings; photographs of the house and a floorplan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a booklet entitled, \"Point of Honor: Its Past and Its Potential\" by S. Allen Chambers, Jr. The booklet discusses the history of ownership, including the Lynch family, Dr. George Cabell and his son William Lewis Cabell, Col. Maurice Langhorne, Judge William Daniel, and James R. Gilliam; the architectural significance of the house, and the reasoning behind and suggestions for its preservation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class entitled, \"The Historical Survey of Poplar Forest,\" which is in Bedford County, written by E.M. Barber. Poplar Forest was a home used by Thomas Jefferson as a retreat from Monticello; he inherited it from his wife, along with 135 slaves, which she had inherited from her father. The paper also talks about renovations made by Jefferson, as well as structural notes, photographs, and a floorplan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report on Red House, a home near Fairfield on the west side of Route 11. The report covers the history of the house and its inhabitants, including the McDowells, the Treavys, the Laymans and the Alexanders; information about the physical house, landscaping, and the McDowell Burying Ground, farm, and orchard; and photographs of the house and surrounding land. Also contained is a newspaper (Lexington Gazette) article about Red House and the McDowells.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains two copies of a newspaper article about Riverside, home of the Shields family. The article discusses the history of the house and the Shields family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains notes on Rock Castle, which include structural information as well as information about the owners and inhabitants, including Mrs. Herbert Van Der Veer and Samuel Campbell.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a newspaper article about the history of Savernake, owned by the Dickinson family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains two copies of a report on the Senseny House in Lexington, written by Pat Dennis. This house was first built (by John Leyburn, John Parry, Josh Jordan, Andrew Wallace, William Letcher, Reuben Ross, Joseph Blair, Samuel Darst, John Caruthers, and John Ruff) as a schoolhouse. The report then discusses the various owners and uses of the building, including a school for black children bought by Nathan C. Brackett and a house bought by James Madison Senseny and eventually willed to Ellen M. Cupp and H. Greenley Senseny and later was rented by Washington and Lee University students. Finally, structural information is given about the house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report on Silverwood, a home built by General E. Frank Paxton in 1857 and later sold to Judge John White Brockenbrough and wife Mary Caldwell. The report discusses other owners, including Judge James Kerr Edmondson and wife Emily, and Mary K. Monroe Robinson and husband Edward (descended from the Lyles and Grahams); a physical description of the house and its renovations; and historical information about the owners and their children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a bound report (written in 1942) on Silverwood, a home built by General E. Frank Paxton in 1857 and later sold to Judge John White Brockenbrough and wife Mary Caldwell. The report discusses other owners, including Judge James Kerr Edmondson and wife Emily, and Mary K. Monroe Robinson and husband Edward (descended from the Lyles and Grahams); a physical description of the house and its renovations; and historical information about the owners and their children.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains an article on the Sloan and Campbell houses, which discuss the builder Alexander T. Sloan and the buildings themselves. Also included is a report on the history of the Sloan House, including floorplans.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class, written by Dick Lovegrove in 1953, about Spring Meadows, the home of Colonel and Mrs. G.A. Derbyshire. The paper discusses structural information about the house as well as information about the owners and sellers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a newspaper article and notes about Stone Castle, inhabited by the Johnstones.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report on the Stone Castle Farm and its owners.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a newspaper article, notes, and photographs of Stono, originally known as Jordan's Point and built by Colonel John Jordan. The article and notes discuss owners, including John L. Campbell, Mrs. Anne R. Howell, and William J. Driver. It also discusses the Virginia Military Institute, near which Stono stands.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report and field notes on Sunnyside and its various owners, including Richard Woods and John Greenlee, and photographs and blueprints of the house and land.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains two copies of a newspaper article about Teaford Inn, located in Kerr's Creek. The articles discusses the history of the Inn and the Teaford family.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThis folder contains a report on Thorn Hill and its inhabitants, including General John Bowyer and Mrs. John White Brockenbrough, photographs, blueprints, and floorplans. 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Includes Clifton House, unnamed Natural Bridge House, Halfway House, King and Anne's Manor (formerly Roseland and the White House), Lebanon Prebsyterian Church, unnamed Alone Mill house, Mackey's Tavern, Neriah Bapist Church, Pendleton-Coles House, the Red House, Rockbridge Alum Springs, Sleepy Hollow (Old Withrow Place, and later Patterson place), Stone Cottage, Tuckaway, Virginia Manor (originally Fleming-Greenlee Plantation), Walkerlands, Whistle Creek, and White Hall.","This file consists of two copies of introductory notes to the Rockbridge Heritage House tour for the years 1969 and 1970. The convered houses in the notes have historical backgrounds. The following houses appear in the notes: Alexander-Withrow House, VMI Superintendent's Quarters, Stono, Clifton, Maple Hill, Timber Ridge Church, Horatio Thompson House, The Red House, Mulberry Grove, New Providence Presbyterian Church, Briarwood, Bellevue, Maxwelton, Level Loop, Windy Glen, Cedar Grove, Reeves Collection, Washington Hall, Lee Chapel, President's House, University Place, Blandome, Beaumont, the Manse, Marlbrook, Hickory Hill, Stonewall Jackson Cemetary (now Oak Grove), Red Mill (also known as Barclay's Tavern), Stone Castle, Herring Hall (formerly know as Clover Hall), and Fancy Hill.","This file consists of materials related to the Historic Lexington Foundation, including the information on the property acquistion of the Jacob M. Ruff House, a pamphlet on the Historic Lexington Foundation and its work on the Alexander-Withrow house (corner of Main and Washington St), an invitation to the Historic Lexington Foundation's Parking Lot Party behind the Central Hotel, and remarks from the first annual Historic Lexington Foundation Dinner.","This file consists of a Rockbridge County News article on historic houses and land donations given to the county, as well as a typescript essay entitled \"Historic and Romantic Balcony Downs,\" which recounts early Rockbridge County conflict with Native Americans.","This file consists of a newspaper article entitled \"Preservation of Old Buildings Is Commended\" by Ellen G. Anderson. The contents of the article are related to various Lexington and Rockbridge County Sites that had historic preservation efforts.","This file consists of three newspaper articles, two of which are from Rockbridge County News, which all provide general histories of a variety of historic homes in the Lexington and Rockbridge Area. The file also includes a typescript essay on old homes in and near Lexington, as well as a housing bond and appraisal letter from Gauranty Bond and Mortgage Company in Richmond, Virginia.","This file consists of unlabeled photo negatives of historic Lexington Houses, likely taken by a representative or member of the Rockbridge Hisorical Society. No dates.","This file consists of a typescript essay entitled \"Two Forgotten College Houses.\"","This file consists of the handwritten draft of \"The Forgotten College Houses.\"","This file consists of a typescript one page essay about the history and origins of the Alexander-Withrow house. No date or listed author.","This file consists of an article from the City, County State News of the Times entitled \"Historic Foundation Buys Old Building in Lexington.\"","This file consists of a letter from Katherine Eichelberger to Mary Monroe, and includes a brief mention of the cottage.","This file consists of an article entitled \"The 'Bacon House' History is Given,\" which describes the origin and family history of the residents of the Bacon House. No date, no author.","This file consists of a typescript coopy of a letter with the title \"The Bacon Home - Extracts from a Letter of Jennie Bacon Lacy.\" The letter includes familial information and a history of the house from the perspective of a family member.","This file consists of a brochure for Balcony Falls, which provides pricing for nights and stays, directions, basic historic background, and a map.","This file consists of an essay about Balcony Downs, detailing its history and also includes a critical evaluation of its architectural style. No date, no author.","This file consists of a research report relating to the Barclay House in Lexington. Information in the report was gathered during an archaelogical investigation at the Barclay House.","This file consists of a book about Belfield, detailing its origins and architectural features. Includes a floor plan, images of the interior of the house, and a map of where it is located on a map.","This file consists of a typescript note on \"Belfont,\" including information on the historic orgins and architectural style of the home.","This file contains an insurance policy for the amount of forty five hundred dollars for a house owned by Judith Bulter between the gates of V.M.I. and Washington and Lee. The insurance company is Liverpool and London and Globe Insurance company, based out of New York City in the United States branch.","This file consists of a typescript essay on Blandome, detailing its ownership history, including how it became the property of prominent Black family in Lexington, the Walkers and Woods. Includes two photos of Blandome.","This file consists of a historic and architectural analysis of the Brady House at Buffalo Forge. The manuscript includes information on the construction of the forge, as well as first hand stories from the Brady's relayed to the author of the manuscript. Also includes photographs of key architectural features and sketches of forge design. Includes sketched floorplan. Written by Toon Tellegen.","This file consists of two copies of terms of agreement and contract for repair on the Campbell house located at 101 E. Washington Street, as well as a letter from Allie Waddell Hedges to the Rockbridge Historical Society concerning the same house.","This file consists of one undated printed image of a building with the caption \"the castle.\"","This file consists of a newspaper article on the Church Hill house.","This file consists of a manuscript copy of \"Clifton: Maury River House,\" written for the Ignorance Club in Lexington, Virginia by Elizabeth Harralson. The manuscript focuses on William Alexander, although it's historical analysis ranges back to Benjamin Borden. Includes historical and architectural descriptions and analysis of the title house.","This file consists of handwritten notes, a typescript essay, and photos which depict or concern the Clifton home. There are four photos which show the exterior of the building. The typescript essay details the architecture and features of the building.","This file consists of a typescript paper on the ownership of the Clifton House on the corner of McDowell and Jefferson streets. Also includes a handwritten note on the Clifton house and its relationship to the Alexander family.","This file consists of handwritten notes by Dr. E.P. Tompkins on the history of \"Clifton at East Lexington.\" Includes information on the origin of the name, the history of ownership, and notes directly on the Alexander family. Includes some genealogical information about the Alexander family, including a list of children and descendants.","This file consists of a typescript essay on the history of visitors, architecture, and ownership of Col Alto, a Roanoke Times article on a lawn party held at Col Alto, a letter from Mrs. Gordon G. Heiner, Jr. to Don Bruce McClelland related to a murder near Col Alto, and a printed copy of a Hampton Inn's historical description of the building.","This file consists of a Mead Associates real estate services document noting the special features, lot and dimensions, building area, condition, annual taxes, price, potential uses, and zoning of the Davidson-Tucker House.","This file consists of a letter to W.T. SHilder from Mrs. G.E. Wade concerning sketches and sketched floor plans on the Daugherty House, as well as a copy of the sketched floor plans, and Aetna Insurance Company policy papers for the house.","This file consists of a paper/presentation materials written by Nanlou Sauder presented to the Ignorance Club on the topic of \"Madison Dunlap, David Lowman, and Miller's Mill\" (3162 West Midland Trail @ Kerrs Creek).","This file consists of a bound manuscript of Mark Smulson's essay \"Fancy Hill: A Study of Pre-Bellum Rockbridge County, Virginia Home.\" Includes sketches and photographs of the house. Topics cover the history of the house, architectural features, Fancy Hill Academy, and ownership of the property. Places the house in conversation with other greater American architectural trends. Includes sketch of floor plan.","This file consists of a copy of ledgers, account books, and general collection papers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's \"Frederick's Hall Plantation Ledgers and other volumes #1422\" from the Southern Historical Society in Wilson Library. From their finding aid - \"There is a letter copybook, 1757-1775, of Major John Snelson, probably a descendant of Elizabeth Snelson (fl. 1727-1728). Snelson wrote chiefly to Edward Harford, Jr., of England about tobacco shipments and imported merchandise. The relationship between this volume and the others is also unclear. Colonial-era merchants represented in ledgers include Colonel John Chisolm (d. 1766), A. Gordon (fl. 1750-1751), and William Montgomery (fl. 1751), all of Hanover County. Activities documented in these ledgers include tobacco sales and mining and mineral export, the daily work of merchants, and importing operations. Activities documented in the antebellum ledgers from Frederick's Hall include lumber production, manufacture and sale of shoes, tobacco production and trade, and merchandizing. There is also some information on wages for slaves and free laborers. Sheet music for an 1854 polka is also included.\"","This folder contains drafts of the first chapter of Pam Simpson's book, entitled \"Architecture of Rockbridge County,\" as well as notes, blueprints and pictures of the buildings discussed in the book.","This folder contains a copy of a Lexington Gazette article from 1931 concerning Matthew Hanna, his daughters, and the house in which they lived, then owned by \"Mrs. Gibbs.\" It also details a 1796 fire which destroyed much of Lexington and was partially extinguished by Hanna's daughters. It goes on to discuss the marriage of Hanna's eldest daughter to Rev. Daniel Blain, and the marriage of another daughter to Rev. Samuel B. Wilson.","This folder contains Herring Hall Inn and Restaurant pamphlets, which include a small map showing the location of Herring Hall and contact information.","This folder contains a map of Rockbridge County showing the location of the Grigsby homes; a 1936 article entitled \"Seven Hills of Rockbridge,\" detailing information on Rose Hill, Fancy Hill, Liberty Hill, Cherry Hill, Fruit Hill, Clover Hill, and Hickory Hill, seven old homes in the Natural Bridge area; a letter to Mr. Knick, then owner of Fancy Hill home, from Mrs. J. R. McNutt, containing information about Fancy Hill and the Grigsby family; photographs of Hickory Hill, Cherry Hill, and Fancy Hill; and various notes on the Grigsby family homes.","This folder contains a tablet template which includes information about the Homestead house, built around 1818, and its builder, William Spencer Dance, and his wife, Mary Page Branch.","This folder contains two archaeological land survey reports done for an anthropology class (college unknown) written in 1984 by students David Gomer and Kevin Patrick Marrie. Gomer's report is missing pages and Marrie's report is addressed to a Dr. McDaniel.","This folder contains two newspaper articles about the Mrs. Sam Houston House, a Greek Revival house in Independence, TX, into which Margaret Houston and her eight children moved after her husband's death.","This folder contains notes on the birthplace of Sam Houston, including notes from Captain H.E. Thompson, whose family then owned the land.","This folder contains a tablet template which includes information about the Houston House, built before 1830 and inhabited by Livingston Waddell and Hale Houston.","This folder contains an architectural and historical survey of the Hull Farm (also known as Laughlin Farm), including photographs and blueprints, written by James A. Russ in 1961.","This folder contains a letter from Nannie Jordan and a resolution concerning the restoration of the Jordan House adopted by the Board of Trustees of Washington and Lee University.","This folder contains newspaper articles about the Jordan House and its preservation, as well as two copies of a paper entitled, \"The Preservation of the Jordan House: A Suggestion,\" written in 1939 by Leslie Lyle Campbell.","This folder contains an insurance application for the Kinney House.","This folder contains notes on Liberty Hill, Thomas Welch, Jr. and Eliza Grigsby, as well as photocopied images of Liberty Hill and a map.","This folder contains an analysis of the Lindsay Home, including photographs. The analysis discusses the home's owners, including John Paul Cook, as well as the structure of the house.","This folder contains a report on the Ludwick-Swope farm, including a brief history of Rockbridge County, maps and photographs of the area, blueprints, a discussion of early farming practices, and excerpts from a will book and deed book.","This folder contains a report on the Lunsford House, including a history of the building and land, structural information, and blueprints and photographs of the house.","This folder contains a newspaper article about the McCampbell Inn, owned by the Merediths (along with the Alexander-Withrow House). The article discusses the restoration of the McCampbell Inn as well as detailing information about Beth Braford Thompson, the innkeeper.","This folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class entitled, \"The McChesney House.\" The paper discusses John McChesney, his family and slaves, more specifically a slave named Maria, and her experiences and connection to strange occurrences in the area. It also discusses the Civil War and its effects on the McChesney family as well as structural information about and photographs of the house.","This folder contains a sketch of the inscription over the kitchen door at Marlbrook, built by David Greenlee.","This folder contains a newspaper article concerning the Matheny House and its removal from Main Street.","This folder contains a newspaper article about the history of Middleton \"Mansion House.\"","This folder contains personal recollections from Ellen Anderson concerning Mount Joy, including the history of the property and its owners.","This folder contains a history of Mount Pleasant, located in Buffalo Forge, including information about the land.","This folder contains part of an article from Harper's New Monthly Magazine titled, \"Mount Vernon as It Is.\" This article discusses George Washington and his home in depth.","This folder contains a pamphlet about Mulberry Hill, detailing historical information and the portraits in each room, as well as a picture of Mulberry Hill.","This folder contains seven pieces of paper, along with a typed version, discussing different buildings in Natural Bridge: Red Mill, High Bridge Church, Stone Castle, Sunny Knoll, Rural Valley, Oak Forest, and Indian Block-House.","This folder contains notes on and photographs of the Paxton Place. The notes discuss the various owners of the land and house, including R. Tate Alexander and various Paxton family members, physical attributes of the land such as soil type, and a walkthrough of the floorplan.","This folder contains a report on Pine Hill Farm, built around 1825, which discusses the owners, Mr. and Mrs. L.D. Perkins, Plank Road, nearby taverns, and other inhabitants as well as the builder Nathaniel Rowlinson. There is also a walkthrough of the floorplan and photographs of the house.","This folder contains a report on Plunkett House, including owners of the house such as James Jordan, J.C. Boode, and Mrs. Minne Reed Brown; the physical location of the house and its surroundings; photographs of the house and a floorplan.","This folder contains a booklet entitled, \"Point of Honor: Its Past and Its Potential\" by S. Allen Chambers, Jr. The booklet discusses the history of ownership, including the Lynch family, Dr. George Cabell and his son William Lewis Cabell, Col. Maurice Langhorne, Judge William Daniel, and James R. Gilliam; the architectural significance of the house, and the reasoning behind and suggestions for its preservation.","This folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class entitled, \"The Historical Survey of Poplar Forest,\" which is in Bedford County, written by E.M. Barber. Poplar Forest was a home used by Thomas Jefferson as a retreat from Monticello; he inherited it from his wife, along with 135 slaves, which she had inherited from her father. The paper also talks about renovations made by Jefferson, as well as structural notes, photographs, and a floorplan.","This folder contains a report on Red House, a home near Fairfield on the west side of Route 11. The report covers the history of the house and its inhabitants, including the McDowells, the Treavys, the Laymans and the Alexanders; information about the physical house, landscaping, and the McDowell Burying Ground, farm, and orchard; and photographs of the house and surrounding land. Also contained is a newspaper (Lexington Gazette) article about Red House and the McDowells.","This folder contains two copies of a newspaper article about Riverside, home of the Shields family. The article discusses the history of the house and the Shields family.","This folder contains notes on Rock Castle, which include structural information as well as information about the owners and inhabitants, including Mrs. Herbert Van Der Veer and Samuel Campbell.","This folder contains a newspaper article about the history of Savernake, owned by the Dickinson family.","This folder contains two copies of a report on the Senseny House in Lexington, written by Pat Dennis. This house was first built (by John Leyburn, John Parry, Josh Jordan, Andrew Wallace, William Letcher, Reuben Ross, Joseph Blair, Samuel Darst, John Caruthers, and John Ruff) as a schoolhouse. The report then discusses the various owners and uses of the building, including a school for black children bought by Nathan C. Brackett and a house bought by James Madison Senseny and eventually willed to Ellen M. Cupp and H. Greenley Senseny and later was rented by Washington and Lee University students. Finally, structural information is given about the house.","This folder contains a report on Silverwood, a home built by General E. Frank Paxton in 1857 and later sold to Judge John White Brockenbrough and wife Mary Caldwell. The report discusses other owners, including Judge James Kerr Edmondson and wife Emily, and Mary K. Monroe Robinson and husband Edward (descended from the Lyles and Grahams); a physical description of the house and its renovations; and historical information about the owners and their children.","This folder contains a bound report (written in 1942) on Silverwood, a home built by General E. Frank Paxton in 1857 and later sold to Judge John White Brockenbrough and wife Mary Caldwell. The report discusses other owners, including Judge James Kerr Edmondson and wife Emily, and Mary K. Monroe Robinson and husband Edward (descended from the Lyles and Grahams); a physical description of the house and its renovations; and historical information about the owners and their children.","This folder contains an article on the Sloan and Campbell houses, which discuss the builder Alexander T. Sloan and the buildings themselves. Also included is a report on the history of the Sloan House, including floorplans.","This folder contains a paper written for a fine arts class, written by Dick Lovegrove in 1953, about Spring Meadows, the home of Colonel and Mrs. G.A. Derbyshire. The paper discusses structural information about the house as well as information about the owners and sellers.","This folder contains a newspaper article and notes about Stone Castle, inhabited by the Johnstones.","This folder contains a report on the Stone Castle Farm and its owners.","This folder contains a newspaper article, notes, and photographs of Stono, originally known as Jordan's Point and built by Colonel John Jordan. The article and notes discuss owners, including John L. Campbell, Mrs. Anne R. Howell, and William J. Driver. It also discusses the Virginia Military Institute, near which Stono stands.","This folder contains a report and field notes on Sunnyside and its various owners, including Richard Woods and John Greenlee, and photographs and blueprints of the house and land.","This folder contains two copies of a newspaper article about Teaford Inn, located in Kerr's Creek. The articles discusses the history of the Inn and the Teaford family.","This folder contains a report on Thorn Hill and its inhabitants, including General John Bowyer and Mrs. John White Brockenbrough, photographs, blueprints, and floorplans. Also included photocopies of newspaper articles and a declaration for assurance for Thorn Hill.","This folder contains a report and various notes on Thorn Hill and its inhabitants, including General John Bowyer, a trustee of Washington College.","This folder contains an insurance form for the Tomlinson House.","This folder contains photographs of and a report about Tuckaway, a house built by John Stockdale in 1777. The report discusses structural information about the house as well as floorplans.","This folder contains a report about the Valley of Virginia, which lies between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Alleghenies. The report discusses the architecture in the area and nearby towns.","This folder contains notes on the Waddell House and Livingston Waddell.","This folder contains a report entitled, \"History of Old Walkerlands Farm\" by Mary Moore Mason. It discusses the owners, including Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edward Mason, James Moore, and James A. 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