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A drawing of Payne's Mill

Drawing by Anna Jane T. (cannot read last name on lower right of drawing)

Early Iron Works
Nearly 300 years ago, this land on the South bank of the North Anna was owned by Charles Chiswell, an early 18th Century Williamsburg political insider and one of the lake region’s great entrepreneurs.

Chiswell was born in…

This image is of an unknown driver taking his wagon to the Mineral railroad station in 1924. A Chesapeake & Ohio train can be seen getting unloaded in the background.

Easter Cluff was an enslaved woman sold by Samuel Clough in the mid-1850s. This letter, written in 1866 by her last owner before emancipation is addressed from Macon, Georgia, in the hopes of learning from anyone in Louisa County about Easter's…

Elijah Rollins (1895-1962) and his wife Violet Shelton (1900-1982) were both born along the Louisa County/Goochland County line above Gum Spring. Place names associated with these people include Rolling Path Rd, East Leake, and Hadensville. Elijah…

Angus Duncan comes back to visit his nanny, Ellen Hooker, who was born into slavery. Duncan keeps a life-long bond with this woman who helped to raise him. Race relations are many layered and often complex.

Ellis Erginbright and Ida Jones

Estate of Richard Morris
P. 270
In Louisa County Court January 14th 1822
The foregoing Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of Thomas Jennings deceased was this day in open court returned and by the Court ordered to be recorded. Teste

We…

Richmond, Pulliam and Davis