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The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society

The Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society

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Manuscripts and Pamphlets

Soapstone Industry in Central Virginia

This is a collection of two typed accounts of Virginia's soapstone industry in Albemarle and Nelson Counties, the shortline railroads that served them, written by Garth G. Groff.

Widow's Sons' Lodge No. 60 AF & AM of Charlottesville

Materials pertaining to the history and membership of the Widow's Sons' Lodge No. 60 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

History of the First Baptist Church, 735 Park Street, Charlottesville

Unpublished manuscript of the history of the First Baptist Church, 735 Park Street, Charlottesville, Virginia compiled by Neil A. Benfer, Church Historian. 

Parks Family

This is an unbound photocopy of the typescript The Ancestors of James M. Hogue, Supplement No. 2, The Parks Ancestors by Earl F. Arnett, 1984.

Mann Family

A collection of biographical notes, family group sheets, and photocopied photographs of the John Powhatan Mann family.

Charlottesville Historic Landmarks Commission

Correspondence, surveys, records and other material of the Charlottesville Historic Landmarks Commission, and papers of Prof. Lay as a member and chairman of the Commission.

Hamner and Related Families

Genealogical records and photographs of the family of James Hamner (1823-1910) and wife Lucy Ann Gay (1826-1900) who removed from Albemarle County, Virginia to Delaware County, Ohio in the 1800s.

George Wythe Randolph Letter

This collection contains an ALS from George W. Randolph, Secretary of War of the Confederate States of America, to Miss Bettie D. George of Charlottesville, Virginia, 25 September 1862.

Graves Family Bible Records

This is a photocopy of the Graves family bible record and includes the Graves, Brown, and Wood families of Earlysville, Virginia.

Gresham/Grisson Family Papers

This is a collection of papers relating to the Thomas Gresham/Grissom family of Virginia, Kentucky and Illinois.

James S. Leitch Papers

This is a collection of papers of James S. Leitch (1848-1892) of Charlottesville, Virginia.

Blue Ridge Hospital History

A typescript of the history of the Blue Ridge Sanatorium (Hospital) in Albemarle County, Virginia.

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