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Poague Family Agricultural Account Book and Slave Register
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0476
Scope and Contents
This account book documents agricultural operations for a southern Rockbridge County farmer between April 1863 and June 1867. The compiler is possibly Johnathan Poague, whose son, John William Poague, signed the book on the inside front cover. John William Poague attended Washington College in 1868 for one year. Contents include expenditures and receipts for day to day farm operations, crop production numbers, and diary - like entries. Contents of specific note include a registry of names of...
Dates:
Inclusive 1861-1867; Majority of material found within Bulk 1863-1867
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
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
Rockbridge County, Virginia Physician's Notebook
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0114
Scope and Contents
This medical notebook of an unidentified physician in Rockbridge County, Virginia includes notes on treatments, accounts from 1825-1833, and descriptions of childbirth cases from 1824-1831. There is also a photocopy of the notebook.
Dates:
Inclusive 1824-1833