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Baer Family Papers

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0155

Scope and Contents This collection in comprised principally business and family correspondence and general papers of the Baer family of the Panther Gap vicinity of Rockbridge County, Va. with a concentration of papers relative to the family's land holdings such as maps, indentures, and wills. Other highlights are a group of twenty-one manuscript weaving drafts for making household textiles, a family Bible in German(l744), local militia fines, genealogical materials, some relating to the Decker and Hite (Heyt)...

Dates: 1744 - 1929

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Buena Vista Presbyterian Church Register

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0295

Scope and Contents

This register of the Presbyterian Church of Buena Vista, Virginia was prepared during the pastorates of Reverend A.C. Hopkins and Reverend J.S. Montgomery, 1908-1926. It includes records of pastors, 1890-1924; elders, 1890-1925; deacons, 1912-1925; communicants, 1902-1926; baptisms, 1908-1924; marriages, 1925-1926; deaths, 1925-1926.

Dates: Inclusive 1908-1926

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

David C. Irwin Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0270

Scope and Contents

This collection contains three ledgers: Leonidas Willson Irwin's spiritual diary, 1887-1937; D.C. Irwin's pastor's register, 1869-c.1881; D.C. Irwin's account book, 1895-96.

Dates: Inclusive 1869-1937; Majority of material found within Bulk 1887-1937

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Dickinson Family Financial Records Collection

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0579

Scope and Contents

This collection contains ledgers, time books, check books, and other papers relating to the People's Bank of Buena Vista, Virginia and Dickinson Firebrick Company of Buena Vista, Virginia.

Dates: 1900 - 1948

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

New Monmouth Presbyterian Church records

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0168

Scope and Contents

This collection includes deacons' minutes, sunday school records, the church register, cemetery records, congregational meeting minutes, and financial records of New Monmouth Presbyterian Church. Also includes some issues of the New Monmouth News/Newsletter, August 1979 - December 1981, March 1984, December 1987, May 2001, no date.

Dates: translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.Creation: 1858 - 1984

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rice Hotinger Ledger and Will

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0261

Scope and Contents

This accounting ledger contains records of the Hotingers' Mountain View Farm in Rockbridge County, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1943-1971

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives

Rockbridge Baths Hotel Ledger

Collection

Identifier: WLU-Coll-0272

Scope and Contents

This register contains names of guests who visited the Rockbridge Baths, Virginia hotel between June 1871 and May 1882. Among them were many prominent faculty members of Washington and Lee University and Virginia Military Institute, as well as guests from the city of Lexington, Virginia.

Dates: Inclusive 1876-1882

Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives