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Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0001
Scope and Contents
This collection contains items of the Anderson and Alexander families including correspondence dealing with legal business, family matters, and Lexington, Virginia affairs. Consists largely of the family correspondence of William Alexander Anderson, Francis T. Anderson, and Mary Anne Alexander Anderson; includes letters to and from Virginia Governor John Letcher, and two letters from Mildred Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee. Other correspondents include William A. Glasgow, George Hutcheson...
Dates:
1755-1958
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0077
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a variety of legal documents related to citizens of Rockbrige County. Includes indentures, bonds, materials related to wills, legal agreements, and insurance policies amongst other documents.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1742 - 1895
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-PP-0067
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 1977, 1978, and 1981 calendars of Lexington-Rockbridge County produced by the Ruth Anderson McCulloch Branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.
Dates:
Publication: 1977 - 1981
Collection — Container: RHS Collection #0078, Folder: 1-22
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0078
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1818 - 1991
Collection — Container: RHS Collections #0083 - #0087, Folder: 1-3
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0084
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of historic maps of Lexington, Buena Vista, and Rockbridge County.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1890 - 1950
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
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0179
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of four broadsides offering land for sale at public auction as ordered by the Circuit Court of Rockbridge County from 1874-1885. Commissioners executing these sales were: J.G. Steele, W.P. Houston, S.H. Letcher, C.A. Davidson and W.P. Hanger. Litigants and defendants in the associated Circuit Court cases include: E.S. Tutwiler, John Mohler, Andrew Lindsay, A.T. Hanger, James Kennedy and A.J. McBride. The land parcels offered at auction are in Rockbridge County and...
Dates:
Inclusive 1874-1885
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0215
Scope and Contents
This collection contains miscellaneous papers from Rockbridge County, Virginia: receipt of payment to Mr. John T. Figgatt from the Sheriff of Rockbridge Co.; payment receipt dated January 15, 1851; letter dated Nov. 18, 1883; dental bill; list entitled 'Rules of this school'; and 2 small notebooks.
Dates:
Inclusive 1856-1890
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0009
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of various records, such as meeting minutes, papers, and other printed materials, such as newspaper clippings. It contains several copies of a pamphlet of bicentennial historic dates that occured within Rockbridge County and the city of Lexington as compiled by Rockbridge Historical Society president Charles W. Turner. It also contains a typescript from 1956, entitled The River Crossing at Jordan's Point by Martha Ann Spencer, that was submitted to the society's...
Dates:
Inclusive 1939-1978 Approximate
Collection
Identifier: WLU -Coll-0043
Scope and Contents
A collection of original land deeds and indentures from the vicinity of Rockbridge County, Virginia collected by the Rockbridge Historical Society.
Dates:
1748 - 1920
Collection
Identifier: RHS-Coll-0059
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of essays, reports, financial documentation, and other historic records documenting the presence, arcitecture, development, or evolution of local houses in and around Rockbridge County and Lexington, Virginia.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1800 - 1995
