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The Parrott School
This photograph, taken by Mrs. Virgie Bell, on February 7th 1910, is of the Parrott School in Greene County, its faculty and its students. The school was located on the north side of Amicus Road, opposite what is now the western entrance of the…
Letter Advertising Coop G.L.F. Egg Marketing Services
This letter, written by the president of the Grange League Federation in 1934, to egg producers in Virginia. Farmers and retailers turned to cooperatives like the G.L.F. during the Great Depression as a way to control supply and raise prices of farm…
History of Shelton's Mill
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…
Octagon Church
Among the various sects seeking to follow more pure apostolic ways in Louisa County were the Christadelphians. Also know as Thomasites, this group originally built the curiously shaped Octagon Church in lower Louisa County in 1858. The structure was…
Easter Clough or Cluff seeks information on her children
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…
Photo of Valentine's Mill
A 1935 photograph furnished to LCHS by two different donors. One note states:
"Valentine Mill located on Rte. 22 about 2 miles west of Trevilians. Photo taken in 1935 by Frances Benjamen Johnston, WPA photographer, furnished to Society by Ferol O.…
"Valentine Mill located on Rte. 22 about 2 miles west of Trevilians. Photo taken in 1935 by Frances Benjamen Johnston, WPA photographer, furnished to Society by Ferol O.…
Death Certificate of Burton Payne
Death Certificate of Burton Payne founder of African American community "Payne Town" includes notation "slave of AG Wills" died at age 105
Fluvanna Personal Property Tax 1782 Page 6
Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.
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Enumeration of males over 21 for taxation of personal property.