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Building A Home (Contract)
This document is a sharecropping contract between Richard Kennon and Samuel Brown. The agreement specifies that Brown is to repair a house located on Kennon’s land. He must also cultivate the land around the house. Brown’s work must be complete…
Daily Life
For many African Americans, daily life after slavery was not much different than life in bondage. There was still a struggle for survival for many African American families. Most of the residents of Louisa County lived on farms and until Rural…
Delinquent Land Sale
This document is a notification of an auction that is scheduled to be held at the front door of the Louisa Courthouse on the first Monday in January of 1936. The items in up for auction are tracts of land whose owners failed to pay the taxes on the…
Do not believe in the Rosenwald Fund
Letter to Mr. Hayden stating that the current board does not believe in the Rosenwald Fund
Easter Clough or Cluff seeks information on her children
Easter Cluff was an enslaved woman sold by Samuel Clough in the mid-1850s. This letter, written in 1866 by her last owner before emancipation is addressed from Macon, Georgia, in the hopes of learning from anyone in Louisa County about Easter's…
First Baptist Church
The picture on the left is an image of the original building for the First Baptist Church on its present location one block west of the courthouse. This is not the building that the trustees purchased in 1866. The picture on the right is an image of…
Freedmen's Bureau Records 08210707
National Archives and Records Administration, M1913, Roll 103, Frame 707
May be of service in carrying out the designs of the government, in regard to Refugees and Freedmen, and report to this office in order that requisition may be made for the…
May be of service in carrying out the designs of the government, in regard to Refugees and Freedmen, and report to this office in order that requisition may be made for the…
Freedmen's Bureau Records 09360822
National Archives and Records Administration, M1913, Roll 103, Frame 822
Louisa C.H., Va.
February 12th, 1866
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Jas. Ashworth
Capt. & Asst. Supt.
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Asks instructions for finding our orphan…
Louisa C.H., Va.
February 12th, 1866
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Jas. Ashworth
Capt. & Asst. Supt.
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Asks instructions for finding our orphan…
Freedmen's Bureau Records 15470309
National Archives and Records Administration, M1913, Roll 104, Frame 309
Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Off. A.S.ct. C. Div. Orange and Louisa Cos. Va
Gordonsville May 8th, 1867
A.S. A. Com. Richmond Va
Bureau R.F. and…
Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Off. A.S.ct. C. Div. Orange and Louisa Cos. Va
Gordonsville May 8th, 1867
A.S. A. Com. Richmond Va
Bureau R.F. and…
