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This contract is between Alice Hanger of Louisa County, Virginia, and the Richmond Co-operative Milk Producer's association. Members of the co-op pooled the milk they produced in order to reduce competition between milk producers and obtain a higher…

The Cooke Office Building is a Victorian example of second empire architecture. It includes a mansard roof and an asymmetrical plan popular at that time.
Built in 1887 by Rice P. Cammack. Originally used as a hotel it was integral to the history…

These images are from Corduroy Farm, a large farm located about 8 miles west from the town of Louisa. during the World War II period. Rural electrification did not come to outlying areas until a few years after the war, so farming practices relied…

William Henry Brill and Mildred Anne Long Brill in front of the Greene County Courthouse and Jail. Date is uncertain but believed to be late 1800s.

The covered bridge at Palmyra was built in 1884 by W.R. and C.C. Cocke to replace earlier wooden bridges. The 1884 bridge was of mortise and tenon construction, and was built using 3,000 white-oak pegs instead of nails or bolts. One of the pegs is…

(Right of the Courthouse) Lucien Minor proposed in 1832 to build a lawyer’s office of brick on a twenty-foot square of public ground. It was approved and built the next year. The Crank Building was named in honor of W. Earle Crank. Mr. Crank…

These are small arrow points found around five miles north of the town of Louisa in close proximity to other artifacts in the Native People collection. They are approximately 1 x .75 inches and are milky white in color. Archaeologists date the…

History of Louisa County and how formed from Hanover.

For many African Americans, daily life after slavery was not much different than life in bondage. There was still a struggle for survival for many African American families. Most of the residents of Louisa County lived on farms and until Rural…

This image is of the manager's family and their help standing in front of their housing at the Arminius Mines. In 1904, the mines were run by seven managers overseeing a workforce of three hundred men. It is said that the managers would often invite…

Death Certificate of Burton Payne founder of African American community "Payne Town" includes notation "slave of AG Wills" died at age 105

John Tisdale and Frances, his wife deed Bernard's Mill and surrounding property to James Trevelian on January 9, 1804.
Names of certain creeks and a bridge are stated which may help with identification of the mill's location.

This document is a notification of an auction that is scheduled to be held at the front door of the Louisa Courthouse on the first Monday in January of 1936. The items in up for auction are tracts of land whose owners failed to pay the taxes on the…

This image is of a flyer posted for a delinquent land sale in Louisa County found in the County Auditor's Reports in the Louisa County Historical Society Archives.

During the Great Depression, landowners were often unable to pay the property…

Letter to Mr. Hayden stating that the current board does not believe in the Rosenwald Fund

This is a transcription of the Fluvanna County Virginia personal property tax records for the year 1782. The text from the documents was transcribed as columnar data based on the GEDCOM data standard and is provided here both as an Microsoft Excel…

Portrait of Dr. B.M. Francisco of Horseshoe Farm.

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…