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  1. Historical Society of Western Virginia Newsletter - September 1999

    Historical Society of Western Virginia September 1999 newsletter. Newsletter includes highlights of the Museums and Historical Society activities. The newsletter talks about the museum's fall programs, which focused on the roles of George and Martha Washington and Thomas Jefferson on frontier colonial history. The museum conducted a 'haunted haunts' tour, acquired a new Minolta CS Pro model copier, advertised for the museums fall Western Au...

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    Historical Society of Western Virginia Newsletter
  2. Letter - July 15, 1826

    Letter dated July 15, 1826 from John Breckinridge, posted at Lexington, Virginia, to his sister Mary Ann Breckinridge who was living near Fincastle in Botetourt. Letter mentions family member, brother Cary, and several other names. John Breckinridge was a student at Washington College at this time.

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  3. Letter - March 9, 1843

    Letter headed "March 9th 1843" from Emma Breckinridge at Fincastle to her sister Lucy Gilmer at Leigh, near Hardin's Tavern, Albemarle, Virginia telling of events that led up to Lizzie Watts Preston's death in Abingdon and funeral at Oaklands, about how Lizzie and Mr. Preston read the Bible twice a day, about the reasons William Gilmer and Mr. Watts were not willing to join a church, states that Lizzie took sick on January 1, 1843 and felt she wo...

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