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Parke Taylor, a renowned horticulturalist for her knowledge and cultivation of boxwood hedges, sent box clippings around the US, and to several different countries around the world. In the 1930s, Parke ran her boxwood business at Westend, in…

This courthouse was constructed about 1818 and is the one which was standing during the Civil War when Union troops came into Louisa County with the intent of destroying and disrupting Confederate support along the Central Virginia Railroad.

Anna T. Jeanes, born in 1822 in Quaker Pennsylvania, became the sole inheritor of her family fortune. Her Christian faith led her to establish The Friends Boarding House, a home for the ill and elderly. Two years before her death in 1907, Jeanes…

Built in 1860 by Edwin Lee Smith, a local dentist. The house was sold in 1913 to the Boxley family.
In 1918 architect D. Wiley Anderson remodeled the home for the Boxley family. The renovations included: the addition of a dining room, a kitchen,…

Louisa County Will Book 13 page 260 includes the considerable number of enslaved people in the estate of Captain William Michie.

Likely the five daughters of Henry Taylor II of Westmoreland County, who married Mary Minor Watson Taylor of Westend. They lived at Montrose for several years before moving out to Westend, where they raised nine children. The five daughters are…

History of Louisa County and how formed from Hanover. First published in June 1969

From left to right sit Lucy Carter, Mary Alice, and Fannie Tyree Kennedy. Along with a younger and older brother, the girls were the children of John Henry and Capitola Bowles Kennedy. At the young age of 22, Mary Alice died in an “accident,”…

This certificate was given to J. J. Porter to certify that he owned four shares of stock in the Louisa Telephone Company. He bought each share of this stock at ten dollars on April 17, 1899. This stock would have been sold in order to ensure capital…

This house was moved in 2013 to a new location at The Sargeant Museum in the Town of Louisa.

The Page mines were located on Long Island Creek. They werefirst eradicated in 1856 and an eight stamp mill was created to crush the ores of the veins running through the property. Although it is hard to find the origins of the property in county…

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…

This photo demonstrates the Pyrite Mines of the Sulphur Mines. A spur from the mail railroad line (constructed by the Virginia Central Railroad before the Civil War) ran to the mines in order to transport the large quantities of valuable ore they…

First published in Winter 1973-1974