Title:: Mill Park Wine Company Letterbook 1885-1888

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Mill Park Wine Company Letterbook, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
3.00
Creator:
Mill Park Wine Company arrangement
Abstract:
The letterpress copybook of the Mill Park Wine Company of Haymarket, Virginia contains about 90 letters written by Christian A. Heineken and Franz Peters regarding business matters of the firm. The correspondence refers to ordering corks, labels, and other business affairs. The collection also includes two original wine labels.
Language:
The records are in: English
Preferred citation:

Mill Park Wine Company Letterbook, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

The letterpress copybook of the Mill Park Wine Company of Haymarket, Virginia contains about 90 letters written by Christian A. Heineken and Franz Peters regarding business matters of the firm. The correspondence refers to ordering corks, labels, and other business affairs. The collection also includes two original wine labels.

Biographical / historical:

Founded in 1869, the Mill Park Wine Company, of Haymarket, Va., was owned and operated by Christian Abraham Heineken where wine was made from the locally 'Batavia' grown grapes. Heineken was also a business partner of Franz Peters, who owned a 200-acre farm called 'Batavia' near Haymarket, Va.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center from Carmen D. Valentino, Rare Books, Philadelphia, PA on 08/29/2003.