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This house was moved in 2013 to a new location at The Sargeant Museum in the Town of Louisa.

This certificate was given to J. J. Porter to certify that he owned four shares of stock in the Louisa Telephone Company. He bought each share of this stock at ten dollars on April 17, 1899. This stock would have been sold in order to ensure capital…

From left to right sit Lucy Carter, Mary Alice, and Fannie Tyree Kennedy. Along with a younger and older brother, the girls were the children of John Henry and Capitola Bowles Kennedy. At the young age of 22, Mary Alice died in an “accident,”…

History of Louisa County and how formed from Hanover. First published in June 1969

Likely the five daughters of Henry Taylor II of Westmoreland County, who married Mary Minor Watson Taylor of Westend. They lived at Montrose for several years before moving out to Westend, where they raised nine children. The five daughters are…

Louisa County Will Book 13 page 260 includes the considerable number of enslaved people in the estate of Captain William Michie.

Built in 1860 by Edwin Lee Smith, a local dentist. The house was sold in 1913 to the Boxley family.
In 1918 architect D. Wiley Anderson remodeled the home for the Boxley family. The renovations included: the addition of a dining room, a kitchen,…

Anna T. Jeanes, born in 1822 in Quaker Pennsylvania, became the sole inheritor of her family fortune. Her Christian faith led her to establish The Friends Boarding House, a home for the ill and elderly. Two years before her death in 1907, Jeanes…

This courthouse was constructed about 1818 and is the one which was standing during the Civil War when Union troops came into Louisa County with the intent of destroying and disrupting Confederate support along the Central Virginia Railroad.

Parke Taylor, a renowned horticulturalist for her knowledge and cultivation of boxwood hedges, sent box clippings around the US, and to several different countries around the world. In the 1930s, Parke ran her boxwood business at Westend, in…

A list of the personal property taxes paid by citizens in different districts of Fluvanna County in 1782. Although these lists do not give a full list of all persons living in Fluvanna County, they do provide invaluable information on some of the…

Whether the Cosby's made their own beer for dispersion in the Tavern is not known; however, the following recipe was found among the family papers.
11 To Make 15 Galls of Beer
2 114 Galls. good molasses
112 Bushel wheat Brans, to be clean…

This image is of the Sulphur Mines commissary office. Here, the business side of the mines would have occurred. By the time this image was taken, the Sulphur Mines were likely already experiencing difficulties of competing in an increasingly…

This photograph shows the Sulphur Mines of Mineral. On the right side, a horse can be seen pulling a wagon while miners pick up lumber. Manual labor, similar to that seen in this image, was a common sight at the mines. The large scale of the mines is…

This is an image of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad coming into the Sulphur Mine. The railroad was the sole method of the mines transporting their ore and receiving supplies. One worry of the mines was that the threat of war could cause their raw…

In early 1942, sugar was rationed; each rationing book contained 28 stamps, each stamp good for one week's ration of sugar. It is estimated that 3/4 pound of sugar was considered aweek's ration. To prevent people from stocking up on sugar, the…