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Women in a carriage, likely Virginia Taylor (to be Mrs. W.B. Syndor) and a friend, up to visit their aunts Nancy and Lucy Taylor, who had a life interest in Westend. Virginia's father, Henry Taylor III, was a brother of the Nancy and Lucy and had…

The Married Woman’s Property Act which allowed married women to hold property separately from their husbands finally passed in VA in 1877 (the last state to do so, by the way)… this was a delicate period where women, of necessity, became vital…

The Woolfolk manufacturing plant in Louisa produced clothing and some of the first jobs for women in the area. Those who worked at the factory prized their jobs and their fellow workers. They created floats together for the local parades,…

The CCC employed unmarried men ages 18 to 25. This photograph of Bill Hamborsky and John Chesko emphasizes the youth of the men who went to work at the for the CCC to support their families. CCC workers earned $1 per day for six months. $25 was…

These are stamps for the purchase of gasoline in 1945. During World War II, these stamps would have been distributed in order to ensure that there would be enough resources available to support America's troops overseas.

This is the War Ration Book issued to Freeman Walter Tomlinson in World War II. His stamps were given to him on March 6, 1942, and he used all but four. Tomlinson had to sign in agreement of certain conditions to obtain the book. If he violated these…

This is the identification folder that one carried when using rationing stamps during World War II. This folder contains information on the owner and his vehicle in order to use gas stamps. J. T. Harris of Orange, Virginia registers a van on January…

This is the mill built after the original was destroyed during the Civil War in 1863.

Zelda Carter Fletcher Morton was born on June 6, 1874 on Sylvania in Green Springs. Her parents, Andrew and Sarah Carter, were married while enslaved and their marriage was recorded by the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1866 in the Cohabitation Lists.…

Electricity meant everything from refrigeration to electric stoves and artificial lighting, and rural electrification radically altered the lives of rural women.

Zelma was the wife of William Shelton. They appear together in the second photo.…