Recently I came across a collection from the Secretary of the Commonwealth that was still folded and in its original boxes. It seems that no…
Renee SavitsJuly 24, 2024
Within the records of Governor E. Lee Trinkle (1922-1926) are several boxes relating to extraditions and pardons of prisoners. I came across one letter from Leroy…
Renee SavitsApril 26, 2017
The Edward L. Molineux collection, 1861-1915, was scanned as part of the CW150 Legacy Project and recently added to the Library of Virginia’s Transcribe web site.…
Renee SavitsSeptember 28, 2016
The Battle of Hampton Roads was one of the most important naval battles in the American Civil War. It was fought over two days, 8-9…
Renee SavitsSeptember 7, 2016
In November 1924, Governor E. Lee Trinkle traveled to Florida to attend the annual Governors’ Conference. The Governors’ Conference was held in Jacksonville, Florida, on…
Renee SavitsJuly 20, 2016
Recently I was approving some transcriptions done by our virtual Library volunteers on the Making History: Transcribe website and came across a collection of letters written by…
Renee SavitsAugust 12, 2015
The Civil War 150 Legacy Project has been travelling around Virginia and scanning privately held Civil War-related manuscript documents for the past four years. Recently, as I…
Renee SavitsMay 21, 2014
Laura Drake Davis and I spent most of 2010-2012 on the road scanning and collecting images for the CW150 Legacy Project. It was not until recently…
Renee SavitsMarch 15, 2013
The CW 150 Legacy Project was recently in Fairfax for a scanning event at the City of Fairfax Regional Library. The event was a great…
Renee SavitsJuly 6, 2011
Editors Note: This post is a modified version of an article that originally appeared in the former “Virginiana” section of Virginia Memory. The Watkins Family Papers (Accession…
Renee SavitsFebruary 16, 2011
Staff from the Library of Virginia (LVA), including Laura Drake Davis of the CW150 Legacy Project — Western Region, Senior Finding Aids Archivist Trenton Hizer,…
Renee SavitsJuly 21, 2010
As I was inventorying a collection of federal records housed at the Library, I stumbled upon a box of papers that did not seem to…
Renee SavitsJune 30, 2010
During the Civil War, the scarcity and high cost of writing paper often led people to reuse it. They wrote new letters across existing ones,…
Renee SavitsMay 19, 2010
