PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi03447::A Guide to the Fairfax Hall (Waynesboro, Va.) records, 1918-1965)//EN" "vi03447.xml" A Guide to the Fairfax Hall (Waynesboro, Va.) records, 1918-1965 Fairfax Hall (Waynesboro, Va.) records, 1918-1965 42529 Trenton Hizer Library of Virginia © 2014 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record by Trenton Hizer, 17 September 2014 Description is in English A Guide to the Fairfax Hall (Waynesboro, Va.) records, 1918-1965 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 42529

Library of Virginia 2014 Trenton Hizer Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Fairfax Hall (Waynesboro, Va.) records, 1918-1965 42529 2.4 cu. ft. and 9 boxes and 2 volumes English Fairfax Hall (Waynesboro, Va.) Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Fairfax Hall records, 1918-1965. Accession 42529. Business records collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Diane Jones Langston of Moseley, Virginia.

Historical Information

John Noble Maxwell (1888-1932) opened Fairfax Hall as a girls' school in Waynesboro, Virginia, in 1920. On his death in 1932, his widow, Octavia Goode Maxwell (1892-1974) ran the school until 1936. That year, Fairfax Hall was sold to W. B. Gates. It operated as a school until closed in 1975.

Scope and Content

Papers, 1918-1965, of Fairfax Hall, a girls' school located in Waynesboro, Virginia, containing account books, accounts, administrator and executor papers, catalogs, certificates, correspondence, financial records, invoices, ledgers, registers, scrapbooks, stock certificates, tax records, yearbooks, and other papers detailing the history and operations of Fairfax Hall from 1920 to 1936; as well as concerning the private life and professional career of Octavia Goode Maxwell (1892-1974).

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Series I: Fairfax Hall records, 1920-1936 Series II: Octavia Goode Maxwell papers, 1918-1965 Contents List Series I: Fairfax Hall records, 1920-1936. 1-6 Extent: 6 boxes and 2 volumes.

Fairfax Hall records, 1920-1936, contain account books, catalogs, correspondence, financial records, ledgers, registers, stock certificates, yearbooks, and other papers detailing the history and operations of Fairfax Hall, a girls' school operated by John Noble Maxwell (1888-1932) and Octavia Goode Maxwell (1892-1974). Yearbooks, 1921-1936, highlight the school and student life and activities; catalogs, 1920-1932, detail the operations of the school and classes offered; correspondence, 1928, 1932-1936, mainly concerns the school's difficulties during the Great Depression; and financial records, stock certificates, registers, account books, and ledgers, 1926-1936, concern the financial operations of the school.

Fair Facts, 1921 1 Fair Facts, 1923 1 Fair Facts, 1924 1 Fair Facts, 1925 2 Fair Facts, 1926 2 Fair Facts, 1927 2 Fair Facts, 1928 3 Fair Facts, 1929 3 Fair Facts, 1932 3 Fair Facts, 1933 4 Fair Facts, 1934 4 Fair Facts, 1935 4 Fair Facts, 1936 4 Fairfax Hall catalog, 1920-1921 5 Fairfax Hall catalog, 1926-1927 5 Fairfax Hall catalog, 1927-1928 5 Fairfax Hall catalog, 1928-1929 5 Fairfax Hall catalog, 1929-1930 5 Fairfax Hall catalog, 1931-1932 5 Correspondence with faculty and staff (Margaret Bransford, Hattie E. Brown, Thomas L. Chrisman, Fannie Sue Coleman, Alice Forsell, Myra Matthews, Ebba Noer, Amy Plummer, Mary E. Thomas, Carrie Bell Vaughan), 1928, 1932-1936 6 1 Financial papers, 1926-1934 6 2 Stock certificate book 6 Account book, 1926-1936 6 Acount ledger (trial balance, account journal, check register, cash disbursements), 1931-1936 Transfer journal and check register, 1924, 1929-1932 Series II: Octavia Goode Maxwell papers, 1918-1965. 7-9 Extent: 3 boxes and 1 folder.

Octavia Goode Maxwell papers, 1918-1965, contain accounts, administrator and executor papers, correspondence, financial records, invoices, scrapbooks, tax records, yearbooks, and other papers concerning Octavia G. Maxwell's personal life and her life as a teacher and educator. Papers include personal and income tax forms, 1920-1937, for John Noble Maxwell and Octavia Goodloe Maxwell; administrator and executor papers for estates of Laura Virginia Maxwell (-1928) and John Noble Maxwell; John Nobel Maxwell's personal correspondence, 1923-1932, including his purchase of a dog; correspondence, 1932-1938, and account book, 1952-1953, regarding Octavia Maxwell's personal finances; yearbooks, 1921, 1952-1953, for the Staunton Military Academy (Staunton, Virginia) and North River High School (Augusta County, Virginia); certificate, 1939, for completion of a course in typing and shorthand from the Dunsmore Business College; and a scrapbook, 1918-1965, containing obituaries, wedding announcements, other clippings, cards, poems, and other papers. Papers were originally housed in a scrapbook, but were not adhered to the page. For preservation purposes, the papers were removed from the scrapbook and placed in folders. The folders are in the order that the clippings and papers were originally stored in the scrapbook.

John Noble Maxwell correspondence concerning the purchase of a dog, 1928-1932 7 1 John Noble Maxwell correspondence, 1923-1931 7 2 Laura Virginia Gibson Maxwell estate papers, John Noble Maxwell administrator, 1928-1930 7 3 John Noble Maxwell estate papers, Octavia Goode Maxwell executrix, 1932-1937 7 4 Personal account book, 1932-1938 7 5 Financial correspondence, 1952-1953 7 6 John Noble Maxwell income tax records, 1920-1932 7 78 John Noble Maxwell personal property tax records, 1928-1932 7 8 Octavia Goode Maxwell income tax records, 1932-1936 7 9 Octavia Goode Maxwell personal property tax records, 1930-1937 7 10 Scrapbook, 1918-1965 8 Staunton Military Academy yearbook--Blue and Gold, 1921 9 North River High School yearbook--The Splash, 1952 9 North River High School yearbook--The Splash, 1953 9 Certificate from the Dunsmore Business College, 26 July 1939. Located in oversize box 105