The Library of Virginia has added several titles to the growing list of digitized historical newspapers accessible on Virginia Chronicle. Recent additions include: Alexandria Herald…
Kelley EwingMarch 24, 2020
Processing county deeds is usually not the springboard to finding something that is, well, blog-worthy. Deeds are already recorded in county deed books that have…
Dale DulaneyAugust 3, 2016
This is the third in a series of four blog posts concerning post-Civil War Virginia and the lives of freedpeople after Emancipation. The posts precede…
Greg CrawfordJune 24, 2015
T his is the last in a series of four blogs related to the “To Be Sold” exhibit which opens on October 27 at the…
Greg CrawfordOctober 22, 2014
This is the third in a series of four blogs related to the “To Be Sold” exhibit which opens on October 27 at the Library…
Greg CrawfordOctober 15, 2014
When the first Saturday in May rolls around and the attention of the horse world gets fixated on Churchill Downs for the Kentucky Derby, I…
Bari HelmsApril 30, 2014
In court documents from Lunenburg County Chancery Cause 1856-042, the petition of Araminta Frances reveals an interesting and life-changing request. On 10 March 1856 Araminta…
Joanne PorterJune 19, 2013
Lura Royall was a Lunenburg County girl. Her relatives remember her as a pretty woman who never married—a retired school teacher full of life well…
Dale DulaneyFebruary 13, 2013
On 16 December 1895, 12-year-old Mamie M. Yates wrote a letter to Santa Claus. It read: Dear Santa Claus, I will write to you to…
Greg CrawfordDecember 19, 2012
After a new courthouse was built in Lunenburg County in 2006, Circuit Court Clerk Gordon Erby asked the Library of Virginia’s Local Records staff to…
Dale DulaneyAugust 25, 2010
