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[Identification of item], Parke Rouse "The Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the South" Manuscript, WLU Coll 0018, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.
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Gift of Parke Rouse, Jr
This collection contains a typed manuscript copy of Parke Rouse's book "The Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the South" that was received by book editor Robert Stewart in 1972. The copy includes Stewart's editorial notes.
Parke Shepherd Rouse, Jr. was born in 1915 in Smithfield, Virginia. He was a journalist, writer, and historian. He died in Williamsburg, Virginia on March 6, 1997.