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The Woolfolk manufacturing plant in Louisa produced clothing and some of the first jobs for women in the area. Those who worked at the factory prized their jobs and their fellow workers. They created floats together for the local parades,…

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

(Pictured is the A. G. Richardson school for African-American students in Louisa County, Virginia.)

The 1954 the Supreme Court decision known as Brown v. Board of Education overturned the previous “separate but equal” ruling on which a decades…

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 comes from the Department of Historic Resources.   In the article attached, from 1915, the Richmond Evening Journal is writing to warn the citizens of what women could do with the right to vote.  It highlights where there are more colored…

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…

Julius Rosenwald (1862-1932) is credited with the establishment of the Rosenwald Foundation, an organization that worked to promote and improve African-American schools. The fund helped build over 5,300 schools across the South, including 381 r in…

Adam Toler, born in 1766, took detailed notes in a ledger book throughout his education. In a linen-covered notebook, there are comments regarding measurements in many different subjects, including time, the division of money and crops, simple…

Lucy Taylor, the only remaining unmarried daughter who inherited a life interest in Westend, is pictured here as an octogenarian in September of 1955. She is seated in the middle, fixing her headband. She ran Westend with the help of her sister,…

This photograph was likely taken in the fields of Westend Farm during WWI, when there would have been a need for farmers to supply food to the soldiers overseas.

Lucy and Nancy Taylor stayed on Westend and kept it going as a farm while two male…

Women in a carriage, likely Virginia Taylor (to be Mrs. W.B. Syndor) and a friend, up to visit their aunts Nancy and Lucy Taylor, who had a life interest in Westend. Virginia's father, Henry Taylor III, was a brother of the Nancy and Lucy and had…

Virginia (Taylor) Syndor, a niece of Lucy Taylor's, is shown here racing horses in her late 20s or early 30s. She writes of spending her childhood days at Westend Farm with her Aunt Lucy, who was like a "second mother" to her. She also remembers…

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…

Zelda Carter Fletcher Morton was born on June 6, 1874 on Sylvania in Green Springs. Her parents, Andrew and Sarah Carter, were married while enslaved and their marriage was recorded by the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1866 in the Cohabitation Lists.…

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…