How did views on slavery evolve in the decades leading up to the Civil War? What different concerns did Quakers, soldiers, and revolutionaries express about…
The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce the completion of the Petersburg chancery causes digital project. The scanning project was funded by the Circuit Court…
Occasionally the strangest things will surface in the county records. While processing Amelia County records (Barcode 1147160), archivist Callie Freed found a map depicting the…
Editors Note: This post originally appeared in the former ”Virginiana” section of Virginia Memory. The beautiful maps in the Voorhees collection and those that reside in Special Collections are…