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This handmade Valentine's Day card, addressed to Cousin Elizabeth, mixes rhyming poetry and a sense of humor.

Cousin Elizabeth

on the 14 day of February
it was our lots to be merry

lots was cast and tickets was drew
kind fortune said it…

Daniel Boone and Capt. Yancey

As a result of his service in the Virginia Militia, during the American Revolution and the earlier French and Indian War, Captain Charles Yancey, who bought Headquarters from Colonel Richard Anderson, was granted 1000…

The 1863 Confederate Engineers maps are available as full downloads from the Library of Congress.  The following links are overlays of these maps on modern imagery.  The historic maps have been geo-referenced using known locations of streams,…

The historic Shady Grove School was born out of a need to provide a facility for the education of black students in the Jackson District near Gum Spring. In the words of former State Supervisor of Negro Education(1925), W. D. Gresham,"the Shady Grove…

This mill was owned by various members of the Michie family prior to being deeded to John S. Buck in 1849. Ever since then the mill has been known as "Buck's Mill". On Harris Creek at old Price's Road, now 208.

The Old West Mill located in the Green Spring area on the South Anna River was destroyed by fire "a few years" prior to 1974.

Built in the later-1700s, known as "Baker's Mill" until purchased by Reuben Ruffner in January 1845. Mill was washed away by flood waters in 1928

The original Shelton's Mill was completed around 1820, but was destroyed by fire in 1859. A second Shelton's Mill was built in the same location completed in 1863. It operated continuously until 1960. The mill building still stands when this was…

A letter outlining the several land transfers of the property containing Whitlock's Mill (operated 1886-1914), previously called Hancock's Mill (? - 1886). The mill ceased operation sometime between 1921 and 1934.

Ida Jones and Ione Boyle

IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CATHOLIC (formerly St. Mary’s Church)

FOUNDED: Church built in 1876; It is one of the 4 continuously operating Catholic churches in the Diocese of Richmond.

LOCATION: Rt. 618, Fredericks Hall Rd.,…

Imogene Cash

On October 16, 1776, the four illegitimate children of Sarah Martin became apprentices to Mr. Sackville King, who operated an Ordinary known as Cuckoo Tavern. The Tavern became famous as the departure point for the Jack Jouett on his famous ride to…

Hostilities with the Indians again arose in the summer of 1763. Cornstalk, the Shawnee chief, raided English settlements in western Virginia while Pontiac besieged Detroit. July massacres at Tull’s Hill (Bedford County), Muddy Creek (Cumberland…

This document is a pamphlet directing Local Registrars and "Other Agents in Adminstration of the Law" on how to register indivduals on birth certificates. This pamphlet also contains a copy of the Racial Purity Act laws (for use at the discretion of…

This response letter, dated September 8, 1933, was sent to Mr. W.A.C. Pettit of Fredericks Hall. While the contents of Pettit’s original letter to the Commissioner of Insurance and Banking are unknown, the response letter provides several details…

This is a bond that was sold to R.L. Gordon Jr. which gives him twenty shares of capital stock in the Louisa Investment Company. It was sold to him on June 19,1891 at ten dollars a share. Notice the sketch of the old Louisa Court House in the center…

This 1940 Schedule of Farm Income and Expenses, known as Form 1040F by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), was utilized by farmers to calculate their income. The livestock, produce, and services listed – as well as their respective amounts –…

On an unusually warm June afternoon in 1781, John “Jack” Jouett was at Cuckoo Tavern, a short distance from his father’s plantation at Walnut Hill. The Jouetts had moved to Albemarle County, but it is likely Jack was at the Walnut Hill property…