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In 1904, at the age of 43 and with her husband and seven children, Christian Guild left her homeland of Scotland to immigrate to the United States. When she reached Dabneys, Louisa County, Virginia, she became actively involved in an attempt to start…

The image attached shows the start of the suffrage parade in Washington, D.C. The year is unknown. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. The women’s suffrage movement spread nationwide, though some areas faced harsher conditions and…

These two images show members of the state WCTU, including Mrs. R. E. Trice, Sr., in the close-up. Women who felt that alcohol was destroying their families and their society formed the Women’s Christian Temperance Union. It was a prestigious…

This is the original record from the fee book of Thomas Jefferson settling the estate of Dabney Carr. Dabney Carr was not only a close friend of Carr, but his brother-in-law. Carr and Jefferson attended Reverend James Maury Classical School on the…

Thomas Johnson was born in Louisa County and attended Seminary in Lynchburg after the Civil War. He returned to Louisa and pastored several African-American churches throughout the remainded of the 1800s.

Three Chopt Road (Three Notched Road)

This picture shows a tree with three notches etched in the bark, along Three Chopt Road also known as Three Notched Road. It was an early road built upon an old Native American trail. The road runs through…

Three unidentified women standing with a child

This photograph is an eastward view of the Town of Louisa. Taken in 1922, the change from horse and buggies to cars is evident in this photo. Parked outside a store which sports a sign for the Authorized Federal Tire Agency and a gas pump is a horse…

This photo from the album of the Danne family, who lived in the home on the battlefield near the depot, shows a train passing through around 1900

Louisa was a major depot stop on the railroad between Richmond and Gordonsville. The train stopped to unload passengers at the Louisa Hotel where visitors often stayed to escape the heat and unhealthy air in the city (Richmond) during summer.

Trial of those involved in the Boxley Slave Revolt.

The trail occurred about a week after the incident.

At a Court of Oyer and Terminar held at the courthouse of Louisa County on Tuesday the fifth day of March, One thousand eight hundred and…

Original is in the Tennessee State Archive from the papers of John Overton of the Hermitage, TN. It appears to be a register of births and baptisms while Reverend Robert Barret was the minister of Trinity Parish in central Louisa County. Among the…