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Joe Tinsley and Bobby Gilliard
Joe Tinsley and Bobby Gilliard, taken on the front porch of Westend.
In February 28, 1931 issue of The Southern Churchmanis Mr. Tinsley's obituary:
"Entered into eternal life, February 16, 1931, at the home of the late Mrs. Mary Watson Taylor,…
Slave Births at Bracketts
The institution of slavery system kept family connections obscure and few slaves had last names. Establishing the roots and identity that come from knowing one’s family heritage became important for freedmen in the generations after the war. …
1866 Labor Contracts for Freedmen
These images are copies of original labor contracts from Louisa County after the Civil War. Notice the stamps on each document showing it was approved by the Freedmen's Bureau office at Louisa Courthouse.
Contracts are between Henry Taylor and the…
Contracts are between Henry Taylor and the…
Old Lewis Meredith House
Although Robert Lewis Dabney was not born in this house, it stands on Route 601 (Payne's Mill Road at the Crewsville Road intersection) marking the location of Dabney's birthplace about 1/4 of a mile west along Cub Creek.
The Kennedy Sisters
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, 
The Scottish Suffragettes - Christian Guild
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…
Leon Luxford Loyall
Leon Luxford Loyall, from Willowbrook, Louisa County, Virginia, is one of many individuals to join the Equal Suffrage League. He was born on November 1, 1876 and is noted as being a teacher at the time he registered to vote in 1902. He married Ada…
Westend: Country Inn
The brochure for the country inn run by Nancy and Lucy: "The Misses Taylor" of Westend. Their mother, Mary Minor Watson Taylor, specified in her that her unmarried children should have a life interest in Westend.
The girls' mother and father,…
The girls' mother and father,…
Taylor & Taylor Boxwood Hedges Business at Westend
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…
Aunt Lucy's Car
The car which Lucy Taylor likely took to the Trevilians train station to pick up boarders for their country inn.
Westend Remembrances
Virginia (Taylor) Syndor's remembrances of Westend's farm and country in in the early 20th century
Jerdone Castle: Ellen Glasgow's Childhood Summer Home
Ellen Glasgow was a prominent part of the movement for women’s suffrage and was the honorary vice-president of the Equal Suffrage League. Glasgow was born and lived most of her life in Richmond. As a young child, before she became a well-known…
Reuben Lindsay Gordon Jr.
Reuben Lindsay Gordon Jr. was born January 21, 1855 in Orange County, Virginia to Reuben Lindsay Gordon and Elizabeth Somerville Beale. Gordon was a lawyer in Louisa County and served as Commonwealth’s Attorney from 1890 to 1905. He was also a…
Lucille Holt
Lucille Holt, born in 1883, became an influential woman in early twentieth century Louisa County. Born with a light skin tone, she was sometimes seen as a white woman and other times as a black woman. In 1916, Lucille Holt was appointed the first…
The Anna T. Jeanes Fund
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…
Zelda Carter Fletcher Morton
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.…
Main Street Louisa C. 1920
"A Look into the Past" an exhibit by Porter C. Wright. features the Town of Louisa in the 1920's
The five daughters of Henry Taylor
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…