PUBLIC "-//Library of Virginia//TEXT (US::Vi::vi06069::A Guide to the Greene County (Va.) Organization Records, 1838-1976)//EN" "vi06069.xml" A Guide to Greene County (Va.) Organization Records, 1838-1976 Greene County (Va.) Organization Records, 1838-1976 1147423 Eddie Woodward Library of Virginia © 2020 By The Library of Virginia. All Rights Reserved.

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Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, created by Eddie Woodward,28 May 2020 Description is in English 2020-05-28 Converted to schema conforming EAD by dtd2schema.vh.xsl. Greene County (Va.) Organization Records 1838-1976 A Collection in the Library of Virginia 1147423 Eddie Woodward

Library of Virginia 2020 LVA staff Library of Virginia Descriptive Summary The Library of Virginia Greene County (Va.) Organization Records, 1838-1976 1147423. Library of Virginia 1 box English Greene County (Va.) Circuit Court. Administrative Information Access Restrictions

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Preferred Citation

Greene County (Va.) Organization Records, 1838-1976. Local government records collection, Greene County Organization Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Acquisition Information

These items came to the Library of Virginia in a transfer from Greene County.

Historical Information

Greene County was named for Nathanael Greene, commanding general of the Continental army in the South during part of the Revolutionary War. It was formed from Orange County in 1838. The county seat is Stanardsville.

Deed Book 1, 1838–1841, was lost during the Civil War when it was removed from the courthouse. Some court records, primarily volumes, suffered water damage as a result of a courthouse fire on October 24, 1979.

 Scope and Content

Greene County (Va.) Organization Records, 1838-1976, typically consist of appointments of trustees, minutes, and miscellaneous records of religious organizations, fraternal organizations, independent associations, and cooperatives.

Adjunct Descriptive Data Related Material

Additional Greene County records can be found on microfilm at the Library of Virginia. Consult "A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm" found on the Library of Virginia's web site.

Greene County is one of Virginia's Lost Records Localities. Additional Greene County Records may be found in the Virginia Lost Records Localities Collection at the Library of Virginia. Search the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection.

For more information and a listing of lost records localities see Lost Records research note.

 Index Terms Corporate Names: Greene County (Va.) Circuit Court. Subjects: Public records--Virginia--Greene County. Organization records--Virginia--Greene County. Geographical Names: Greene County (Va.)--History. Genre and Form Terms: Local government records--Virginia--Greene County.