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These records can provide clues to recreate Vital Records for people who were enslaved from 1742-1865 in Louisa County: births, deaths, marriages listing parents, estate inventories. At the top of each link's page is a single white bar with the…

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…

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.

A photo of Holladay Mill

Photo of Shelton's Mill Ruins

Photo of Shelton's Mill

Photo of Shelton's Mill

Photo of Shelton's Mill in 1991

Note: this is the same photo as 054_2011_07_085

A drawing of Payne's Mill

The attached files are based on the 1865-1870 Personal Property tax lists for Louisa County now at the Library of Virginia. At this time, only information on people of color has been extracted and presented here. The value of these lists to…

Slave Insurrection “A rumor, of a most alarming nature, has for some days past agitated the public mind in the neighboring counties”, stated a notice in the March 2, 1816 Richmond Enquirer. The disturbance was the trials then underway in Louisa…

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…

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…

Virginia Department of Historic Resources Cemeteries Page OnlineCemetery GeoForm onlineThe Excel worksheets available here are best viewed by downloading them and then accessing the information, as they have thousands of lines each. They are…

Russell Wright with his grandfather A'lelard Watkins
in a tobacco field near Bells Crossroads, Louisa County.

The Virginia Central Railroad was a vital link between the region just east of the Blue Ridge Mountains and Richmond. When vast mineral deposits were being mined in Mineral City in Louisa County, the railroad was vital for transporting shipments of…

In 1862 Union forces made raids into Louisa County and were camped nearby making it worth the risk for many slaves to runaway and take refuge behind Union lines.

The index and original images available here show the sizable number of slaves who…

Green Springs is the only district out of 4 total districts which appears in the microfilm records held at the Library of Virginia

Records are now at the Library of Virginia