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1773 Home Remedy Recipe
In this document, a friend of Robert Harris prescribes him to make a pill using household ingredients that he believes will break his fever. These ingredients include "casteel soap, brown sugar, and rhuberd." He also recommends a liquid cure to take…
Civil War Amnesty Oath
In this document, Robert S. Cosby signed an oath of loyalty to the federal government in May of 1865. After the Civil War, veterans and other supporters of the Confederacy were required to sign such documents to be granted amnesty and avoid…
Road Commissioner Certificates
In this document, the Road Commissioner for Green Springs. The commissioner has granted $243.17 to local parties in need of transportation improvements. Uses for the money include the buying, feeding, and bringing of mules. It appears that, on the…
Meadowland Large Spear Point
This is a spear point found around five miles north of the town of Louisa in close proximity to other artifacts in the Native People collection. It is approximately 3.5 x 1.75 inches and is milky white in color. Archaeologists date the object to…
Halifax or Oriental Fishtail
This is a Halifax fishtail found around five miles north of the town of Louisa in close proximity to other artifacts in the Native People collection. It is approximately 1.75 x .5 inches and is light brown in color. Archaeologists date the object…
Culpeper Quartz Small Arrow Points
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…
Guilford Yuma Clear Quartz
This is a spear point found around five miles north of the town of Louisa in close proximity to other artifacts in the Native People collection. It is approximately 1.75 x 1 inches and is clear in color. Archaeologists date the object to between 5500…
Gorget
This is a gorget made of micha shist stone used for personal adornment. It was found around five miles north of the town of Louisa, in close proximity to other artifacts in the Native People collection. It is approximately 1.25 x 4.5 inches and is…
Clovis Spear Point
This is a Clovis spear point made of jasper found around five miles north of the town of Louisa in close proximity to other artifacts in the Native People collection at the Sargeant Museum. It is approximately 2.25 x 1 inches and is brown in color.…
Nutting Station
This is a nutting station, which would have been used by native people for food preparation. It was found around five miles north of the Town of Louisa in close proximity to other artifacts on display in the Native People collection at The Sargeant…
Roundabout artifacts
These items are a griddle and waffle iron. Implements such as these were used in the 18th century for hearth cooking. Both the griddle and waffle iron were found near Patrick Henry's home "Roundabout" in Louisa County.
Proposed African American Schools
“Schools may have been opened sooner in this district [Louisa Courthouse District] than some others, because the County seat was located here, it was more accessible, more thickly populated and easier for a number of people to assemble for…
Laborer Contract
This document is a contract between John A. Walker and Casina Shepard. The agreement specifies that Ms. Shepard is to perform her duties as a laborer on the property of Mr. Walker. She is to be given five dollars a month for her and her son’s work.…
Building A Home (Contract)
This document is a sharecropping contract between Richard Kennon and Samuel Brown. The agreement specifies that Brown is to repair a house located on Kennon’s land. He must also cultivate the land around the house. Brown’s work must be complete…
"Binding" Contract
This document is a contract between William B. Cocke and “his former servants.†The agreement specifies that his servants are to “bind themselves to go on to work on the farm and to do and attend to all the business…faithfully and…
John Mercer Langston: Visit to Louisa
After his parent's death, Virginia law inhibited John Mercer Langston and the other children of Ralph Quarles and Lucy Langston from inheriting his father's estate. A friend, William Gooch, helped John and his brothers relocate in Ohio. As a young…
Historic Shady Grove School
The historic Shady Grove School was born out of a need to provide a facility for the education of black students in the Jackson District near Gum Spring. In the words of former State Supervisor of Negro Education(1925), W. D. Gresham,"the Shady Grove…
Voting Registration: White
This document is a voting registration sheet that gives the names of all white men and women who are registered to vote in the year 1946. The document states that the individuals on the document (all residents of the Louisa Courthouse District) had…
Voting Registration: Black
This document is a voting registration sheet that gives the names of all black ("colored") men and women who are registered to vote in the year 1946. The document states that the individuals on the document (all residents of the Louisa Courthouse…
Delinquent Land Sale
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…