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Angus Duncan comes back to visit his nanny, Ellen Hooker, who was born into slavery. Duncan keeps a life-long bond with this woman who helped to raise him. Race relations are many layered and often complex.

Elijah Rollins (1895-1962) and his wife Violet Shelton (1900-1982) were both born along the Louisa County/Goochland County line above Gum Spring. Place names associated with these people include Rolling Path Rd, East Leake, and Hadensville. Elijah…

Easter Cluff was an enslaved woman sold by Samuel Clough in the mid-1850s. This letter, written in 1866 by her last owner before emancipation is addressed from Macon, Georgia, in the hopes of learning from anyone in Louisa County about Easter's…

This image is of an unknown driver taking his wagon to the Mineral railroad station in 1924. A Chesapeake & Ohio train can be seen getting unloaded in the background.

Early Iron Works
Nearly 300 years ago, this land on the South bank of the North Anna was owned by Charles Chiswell, an early 18th Century Williamsburg political insider and one of the lake region’s great entrepreneurs.

Chiswell was born in…

Drawing by Anna Jane T. (cannot read last name on lower right of drawing)

A drawing of Payne's Mill

This is a photo of a black-and-white drawing of Payne's Mill.

Note that similar photos of this drawing of Payne's Mill exist in LCHS archives under these identifiers:
054_2009_08_113
054_2009_08_093 (two photos have this…

Portrait of Dr. B.M. Francisco of Horseshoe Farm.

This is a transcription of the Fluvanna County Virginia personal property tax records for the year 1782. The text from the documents was transcribed as columnar data based on the GEDCOM data standard and is provided here both as an Microsoft Excel…

Letter to Mr. Hayden stating that the current board does not believe in the Rosenwald Fund

This image is of a flyer posted for a delinquent land sale in Louisa County found in the County Auditor's Reports in the Louisa County Historical Society Archives.

During the Great Depression, landowners were often unable to pay the property…

This document is a notification of an auction that is scheduled to be held at the front door of the Louisa Courthouse on the first Monday in January of 1936. The items in up for auction are tracts of land whose owners failed to pay the taxes on the…