Download or read book Invisible Founders written by Lynn Rainville and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution — one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.
Download or read book Portraits of Eminent Americans Now Living written by John Livingston and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lynchburg Virginia and Nelson County Virginia Wills Deeds and Marriages 1807 1831 written by Bailey Fulton Davis and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By: Rev. Bailey Davis, Pub. 1985, Reprinted 2017, 256 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-289-9. The city of Lynchburg sits within Campbell County and was created in 1786 but not incorprated until 1805. While Nelson was created in 1808 from Amherst county. Lynchburg Will Book "A" covers the period 1809-1830, the first Marriage Book of the city of Lynchburg begins in 1807 through 1828, and Deed Book A of the city of Lynchburg covers the period of 1805-1813. The Nelson County records include Will Book A, Deed Book 1 and the marriage records all from 1807-1831.
Download or read book Pharsalia written by Lynn A. Nelson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-01-25 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pharsalia, a plantation located in piedmont Virginia at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is one of the best-documented sites of its kind. Drawing on the exceptionally rich trove of papers left behind by the Massie family, Pharsalia's owners, this case study demonstrates how white southern planters paradoxically relied on capitalistic methods even as they pursued an ideal of agrarian independence. Lynn A. Nelson also shows how the contradictions between these ends and means would later manifest themselves in the southern conservation movement. Nelson follows the fortunes of Pharsalia's owners, telling how Virginia's traditional extensive agriculture contributed to the soil's erosion and exhaustion. Subsequent attempts to balance independence and sustainability through a complex system of crop rotation and resource recycling ultimately gave way to an intensive, slave-based form of agricultural capitalism. Pharsalia could not support the Massies' aristocratic ambitions, and it was eventually parceled up and sold off by family members. The farm's story embodies several fundamentals of modern U.S. environmental thought. Southerners' nineteenth-century quest for financial and ecological independence provided the background for conservationists' attempts to save family farming. At the same time, farmers' failure to achieve independence while maximizing profits and crop yields drove them to seek government aid and regulation. These became some of the hallmarks of conservation efforts in the New Deal and beyond.
Download or read book Some Descendants of William Allcock Tobacco Inspector of Caroline Co Va Other Alcock Families written by Billie Lee Alcott-Rammelsberg and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Deeds of Amherst County Virginia Books S Z 1827 1852 written by Bailey Fulton Davis and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of the original records.
Download or read book The Wills of Amherst County Virginia 1761 1865 written by Bailey Fulton Davis and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By: The Rev. Bailey Fulton Davis, Pub. 1985, Reprinted 2018, 470 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-302-X. Amherst County was created from the southwestern portion of Albemarle County in 1761. These wills cover from the very beginning of the county all the way through to 1865.
Download or read book Journal of the House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia written by Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 1128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hidden History written by Lynn Rainville and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-02-12 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Rainville’s research are not statesmen or plantation elites; they are hidden residents, people who are typically underrepresented in historical research but whose stories are essential for a complete understanding of our national past. Rainville studied above-ground funerary remains in over 150 historic African American cemeteries to provide an overview of mortuary and funerary practices from the late eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. Combining historical, anthropological, and archaeological perspectives, she analyzes documents—such as wills, obituaries, and letters—as well as gravestones and graveside offerings. Rainville’s findings shed light on family genealogies, the rise and fall of segregation, and attitudes toward religion and death. As many of these cemeteries are either endangered or already destroyed, the book includes a discussion on the challenges of preservation and how the reader may visit, and help preserve, these valuable cultural assets.
Download or read book The National Register of Historic Places written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Deeds of Amherst County Virginia Books L R 1807 1827 written by Bailey Fulton Davis and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are abstracts of original records.
Download or read book A Guidebook to Virginia s Historical Markers written by and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new, revised and expanded edition includes 212 new markers, many of which reflect the Native-American, African-American, and social history. A Guidebook to Virginia's Historical Markers brings together the texts of more than 1,600 official state historical markers that have been placed along Virginia's highways since 1926, including even those markers that have been removed. A grid map and three separate indexes assist the reader in locating each marker. One index is alpabetical by title, one by subject matter, and one by county and independent city. Travelers along Virginia's highways will find this guide both useful and informative. The great legacy of Virginia's past is revealed on these markers, making this book both a handy reference and a stimulus to greater study of the history of the commonwealth.
Download or read book Amherst County Virginia Courthouse Miniatures written by Bailey Fulton Davis and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters written by Elijah Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this volume, the letters in Part I, 1808-29, are addressed by Elijah Fletcher to his father, Jesse Fletcher, in Ludlow, Vermont, unless otherwise indicated; with a few exceptions, those in Part II, 1830-58, are addressed to Calvin Fletcher in Indianapolis, Indiana."--Preface, page vi.
Download or read book Wright Family written by Robert Noel Grant and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author has amassed a bounty of information about Wrights in southern Virginia. This volume is a collection of Wright records from Amherst County, Virginia. It contains source information and an index. The information is drawn from a variety of primary sources. A most helpful feature for each entry is the "identification" column, in which the author identifies the specific family and Wright ancestors from whom the named Wright descends.
Download or read book The Amherst County Story written by Alfred Percy and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1775 Amherst County, which then included Nelson County, had a population of 5296 whites and 2750 Negroes. This presents a picture of Amherst County in the relatively small thirteen colonies far different from the false one often given of the "sparsely settled frontier." Men of ability came early to the county. They played an important part in the Revolution that created the commonwealth and nation. The Amherst County Story is part of The Virginia Saga. Such has this been through two hundred years--the ups and downs of a county and state that at times produced great men but, more often, despairing and discontented men who left. -- Pg. 3.
