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This collection consists of a variety of legal documents related to citizens of Rockbrige County. Includes indentures, bonds, materials related to wills, legal agreements, and insurance policies amongst other documents.

Records circa 1820-1920 of a store in Shenandoah County, Virginia near Forestville run by the Moore and Kerlin families. This store consisted of a general merchandise store, a blacksmith shop, post office that ran 1841-1859, and a mill. Earlier ledgers suggest that the store was started by Adam Miller and later sold to the Moore family. The Moore and Kerlin families are connected through marriage. Records include store accounts of purchases and credits, receipts, broadsides, and publications related to voting and the Democratic party. The ledgers, in addition to store accounts, accounts of the blacksmith, and accounts of the lumber mill, have amusing doodles, evidence of someone practicing grammar, sentence diagramming, and penmanship, and various newspaper clippings and notes on such topics as soap making, snake bite and frostbite remedies and tips for successful farming. The publications include a pamphlet from the Democratic Committee of Shenandoah County referring to the race between Cleveland and Harrison, a notice of forfeiture from the W.B. Mutual Aid Society of Pennsylvania 1881, a summons from the state of Virginia, Le Grande's Arabian Catarrh Remedy Advertisement, Catalogue of Fruit 1860, Broadside for Bashaw horse race, Advertisement for Sheetz Brothers, Voter's Registration 1896, Castoria baby formula advertisement, Democratic Committee of Shenandoah County Minutes, Dupont Powder and Shells Advertisement, and an Arm and Hammer Soda Advertisement.

This collection consists of files containing newspaper articles, history essays and writing, and photographs concerning Native American land, battles with colonial settlers, prominent figures, and forts in Rockbridge County. Many materials describe the Shawnee Tribe and their presence and relationship with settlers in Kerrs Creek, Abbs' Valley, Balcony Falls, and Hayes Creek Mound. Some materials concern the death of Chief Cornstalk, also known as Hokoleskwa, and the Kerrs Creek Massacre.

This collection contains biographical and genealogical information on various people, primarily from in and around Rockbridge County.

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.

These photographs and negatives were collected by the Rockbridge Historical Society. They are of people, buildings, landscapes, and other subjects mostly concerning Lexington and Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Published lecture by retired professor John McKenzie Gunn, dated April 25, 1994; "Can Economics be Both Relevant and 'good'?"