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Native People in Louisa County

Although Native People were present in Central Virginia for more than 12,000 years, Louisa County was sparsely inhabited when the first English men were establishing themselves at Jamestown. There may have been no…

Braxton Joe
Brown Stephen
Shelton Jacob Blacksmith
Jackson Solomon
Shepherd Jim
Brown Joe
Brown Nelson
Tinsley Overton
Tinsley John
Tinsley Wyatt
Tinsley William
Lewis Lansey
Jackson Moses
Hill Jacob
Hill…

Copied from his original manuscript and slightly abridged by his son, Lauman Ben Johnson. Retyped from photocopy of typed manuscript of son, Lauman Ben Johnson, on March 7, 1990.

Mrs. Lavinia Lou Butler, wife of Lewis H. Butler, pictured here with her daughters Susan Jane and Barbara Ann.

Kate Towsey Butler wife of John Hugh Butler

Mrs. Josephene C. Adams, wife of Colonel W. H. Adams, manager of Arminius Mines, Mineral, VA

Photo of Mrs. G. E. Kiblinger and Children William Henry and Sarah Elizabeth

This is a photograph of Eugenia Mallory, wife of Alva Mallory, and her seven children. There are no records that Eugenia ever registered to vote.

Mrs. Elizabeth Moore, wife of Hugh Alexander Moore

Maggie Mae Lavinia Butler Kiblinger and George Edgar Kiblinger in their front yard on their farm, RTE 522 N, Mineral, VA.

Helen Hoy Greeley was an early and significant voice for the women’s suffrage movement. Born in Albany, New York in 1878, she received her law degree and began to practice in 1903. Se became deeply involved in the Women's Suffrage Movement. In…

This stock certificate certified that P.P. Porter owned ten shares of stock in the Mineral City Mining, Manufacturing and Land Company. He bought each of these shares at a price of one hundred dollars. Stocks such as this one ensured capital for the…

In this image, Dr. Issac Van Duerson Adams visits the mines on bicycles. From period photographs, it appears that bicycles were a primary means of communication around the mines. Numerous images show visitors, both men and women, bicycling around the…

This image is of miners at the Arminus Mines posing together. A clergyman is present in the middle and it is evident how many children grew up around and worked in the mines. Frequently, the miners weren’t steady long-term employees. They worked…

This photograph portrays a group of miners posing on a break from their work in the mines. It demonstrates that many of the miners were in their early teens, but did the hard labor expected of men.

This form reveals a little bit about the political and economic setting in the Mineral District of Louisa in 1934. J.A. Kent was the Treasurer of Louisa County; he was to receive these tax forms back from the citizens within the Mineral District. …

This is a flier for a night of entertainment at Odd Fellow's Hall in Mineral. There was to be a band playing and the play "Childhood," consisting of two acts of charades. Admission was charged at twenty five cents for adults and fifteen cents for…

This image is of a shifter engine pulling into the Mineral City Depot in 1896. The railroad was the primary means of transportation of goods during this time period. Through the Mineral Depot, shipments of goods would be brought to the county's…

These items, part of the Harris family collection, were given to individuals during World War II with the onset of mileage and gasoline rationing. The United States Office of Price Administration (OPA), through local War Price and Rationing Boards,…