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This photograph is an eastward view of the Town of Louisa. Taken in 1922, the change from horse and buggies to cars is evident in this photo. Parked outside a store which sports a sign for the Authorized Federal Tire Agency and a gas pump is a horse…

Three unidentified women standing with a child

Thomas Johnson was born in Louisa County and attended Seminary in Lynchburg after the Civil War. He returned to Louisa and pastored several African-American churches throughout the remainded of the 1800s.

This is the original record from the fee book of Thomas Jefferson settling the estate of Dabney Carr. Dabney Carr was not only a close friend of Carr, but his brother-in-law. Carr and Jefferson attended Reverend James Maury Classical School on the…

These two images show members of the state WCTU, including Mrs. R. E. Trice, Sr., in the close-up. Women who felt that alcohol was destroying their families and their society formed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It was a prestigious…

The image attached shows the start of the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. The year is unknown. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. The women’s suffrage movement spread nationwide, though some areas faced harsher conditions and…

In 1904, at the age of 43 and with her husband and seven children, Christian Guild left her homeland of Scotland to immigrate to the United States. When she reached Dabneys, Louisa County, Virginia, she became actively involved in an attempt to start…

This photo demonstrates the Pyrite Mines of the Sulphur Mines. A spur from the mail railroad line (constructed by the Virginia Central Railroad before the Civil War) ran to the mines in order to transport the large quantities of valuable ore they…

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.