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02/20/1862 9/22/1859
Letter headed Thursday Feb. 20th, [1862] from Julia Breckinridge to her husband Gilmer, she is disappointed by the war news, but is hoping for better things soon, Cary paid a short visit after coming up on the packet boat to visit at Grove Hill, asks about the election of a new captain for Capt. Patton's Company, news about Mrs. Hart, about some things she is working on, news of marriages in the community, deaths reported including Mrs. Charles Y...
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06/16/1862 9/22/1859
Letter headed June 16th [1862] to Eliza Breckinridge from her sister in law Julia requesting news from Grove Hill and telling that her husband Gilmer is getting ready to go to Richmond to see if he can get a position in the Confederate Army as Quartermaster. Talks of plans for an army hospital to be located in Buchanan and the problems they may have furnishing provisions, tells of trying to help wounded soldiers, one a man from Kentucky who was w...
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07/07/1865 10/06/1864 0/06/1864 9/22/1859
Letter headed Avenel July 7 [1865 by context] from Lettie Burwell to Eliza Breckinridge telling of her shock at the death of Lucy, comparing that event to the death of her sister Fanny who had married James Breckinridge in 1862, a short time before Fanny passed away. James was killed in the Civil War on April 1, 1865. Lucy had married Thomas Jefferson Bassett in not many months before she died from typhoid fever. Tells of plans to sell Avenel and...
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A Girl's Life In Virginia before the War - 1895
Pages 68 through 87 of a book titled "A Girl's Life in Virginia before the War". It mentions three estates: -- "Oaklands" was the plantation home of the Watts family. It notes many of the fine things including food (viands) and hospitality to be found there. Also included is the story of a vision that came to the eldest daughter just before her wedding. -- "Buena Vista" was a residence of elegance presided over by a gentleman widower and his d...
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Engravings from Picturesque America
Several pages from an incomplete copy of Picturesque America: Scenes of Virginia. Engravings include: Natural Bridge (a), Cumberland Gap (b, Great Falls (c), Purgatory Falls (d), Peaks of Otter (e), and Clifton Forge (f).
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Flowers for Dead Heroes by Rev. William H. Platt - June 10, 1894
The twenty-eighth observance of Memorial Day is the basis of this newspaper article. The paper is badly damaged and split at the folds where it was folded and stored. The first part of the article pertains to the ceremony itself and is followed by the oration of the Reverend Platt. Petersburg was attacked thirty years ago by the Union cavalry of General Kautz, held at bay by 125 citizen soldiers under the command of Colonel Archer until reinfo...
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Letter - August 25, 1802
Letter dated August 25, 1802 to the Register of the Land Office, Kentucky, concerning the combining of land warrants for service in the 1754 Indian Wars with the original plats of parcels laid out by William Preston, County Surveyor, now deceased. The warrants had not been sent to the land office with the plats.
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Letter - December 30, 1844
Letter headed "Grove Hill Dec. 30th 1844" from Emma Gilmer Breckinridge to her sister, Lucy Gilmer, at Leigh, near Hardin's Tavern, Albemarle telling of the many visitors and guest they entertained over Christmas, much family and friends news, death of Mrs. Breckinridge, illnesses in the family, birth of her baby John Breckinridge.
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Letter - July 26, 1839
Letter headed "Catawba July 26th 1839" and mailed in Fincastle from Emma Breckinridge to her husband Cary, Russell Court House, Virginia, answering a letter from him saying his trip will be extended to Kentucky. News from home: the family, James eruption, visitors who have stayed with Emma, and her uneasiness that she will be alone for three weeks or more. She writes of the farm operations, Cary's dogs, problems with the carriage and needing a...
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Letter - May 12, 1839
Letter headed "Catawba May 12th 1839" and mailed in Fincastle, from Emma Breckinridge to her mother, Mary Gilmer, at Leigh, near Hardin's Tavern. Peach returned home, escorted by Mr. B. on his way to Richmond; James' eruption is getting better; letter from Mary Campbell in Kentucky; news of friends; reference to Isabella's loss [a miscarriage]? and urges her mother to plan a visit this year to Catawba. Mentions a killing frost last night, May 12 ...
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Letter - May 1837 (estimated)
Letter probably written about May 1837 from Ann Watts at Oaklands to Lucy Gilmer, c/o Mr. Persico, Richmond, Virginia. Tells of James Watts planning a trip to Richmond; rumored to be married to Lizzie Cabell. Mentions Aunt Brown [Elizabeth Watts Brown] coming from Kentucky for the summer and proposed return with her for a visit of Ann and one of the Morris cousins.
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Letter - October 16, 1831
Letter dated October 16, 1831 from William W. Gilmer, at Ivy Creek, postmarked Hardins Tavern, to his sister Mrs. Emma Gilmer Breckinridge, at Fincastle, Botetourt County. Family letter reporting on progress of farming, hunting trips, and a pessimistic prospect of him ever finding a woman to marry, and a comment on insurrection.
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Letter to Mrs. Cary Breckinridge, Fincastle, from MMC at Otter Bridge - July 9, 1833
Letter from MMC (Martha Mitchell Campbell) to her friend, Emma Breckinridge, longing for a visit to Mrs. Breckinridge. She writes of plans to visit Botetourt County, accepting an invitation of Mrs. Campbell.
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Santillane - 2007
Historical account of the history of "Santillane", one of Botetourt County's historic homes, prepared by Malcolm W. Bryan, III. The account presents the owners of the home from its beginning to 1950, when Annie Spencer died.
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Sir Walter Raleigh Smoking Tobacco Container - Red and black tobacco container wih Walter Raleigh on the cover. On the back, it advertises tobacco and the prouduct itself
2023.05.17
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View on the Upper Jackson - July 1886
View on the Upper Jackson, the Headwaters of the James, from Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol 22. Engraving of a man, his back turned from the view and baiting a fishing rod. He stands on a rocky riverbank, near two tall trees. The river has a small waterfall upriver, and is framed by mountains in the background.
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