Louisa County, Virginia

Louisa County Historical Society

 Last Updated: Friday, November 16, 2007

Volume 31, Number 1 Spring 2000 (Pages 1 to 59)    
Prohibition Fever: 1893-1926 3 Martha A. McIntire
1915 Directory of Louisa County 8 Doris Perkins Meredith
Spanish Lady Visits Louisa: 1918 Influenza Epidemic 28 Vickie Hopkins Southall
Quail School, 1922-1923 45 Nancy Merle Agee
Then and Now 48 Eugenia T. Bumpass
Remembering the Great Depression 52 Grace Hannah Watkins
Did You Know??? 59 Pattie Cooke
Volume 31, Number 2 Fall 2000 (Pages 60 to 116)    
Courthouse Renovation Program 63  
Courthouse Rededication Address 65 Honorable Judge Harry L. Carrico
Reflections about the Courthouse 69 Honorable Dean P. Agee
Poindexter's Store 75 Pattie P. Cooke
Excerpts from H.R. Terrell's Addresses 84 Pattie P. Cooke
Memories of World War II, Joe Terrell's Store and Buckner School 85 Marilyn B. Corker
Memories of a World War II Soldier 91 Walter F. Scott
On the Home Front During World War II 94 Janet L. Cameron
The Harriet Branham Diary -- Nov. 6, 1861 to May 24, 1862 96 Louis Mittleman, Jr.
Did You Know 109 From the Extension Service in Louisa County
Index 110  
     
Volume 32, Number 1 Spring 2001 (Pages 1 to 56)    
Poindexter 3 Pattie Cooke
The Harriet Branham Diary -- Nov. 6, 1861 to May 24, 1862 11 Louis Mittleman, Jr.
Lawn Party at Forest Hill Church 25 Mattie M. Danne
Strong Family of Louisa and Hanover Counties: 1760- 27 Herma McAllister Deal
Post Offices of Louisa County, 1800-2001 36 Grace Hannah Watkins
Establishment of Huon Post Office 43 LCHS Museum
Portraits in the Courthouse 45 Pattie Cooke
Tribute to Aleck Keane 51 Louis Mittelman
Kincanon Canning Company Contract 53 Doris Perkins Meredith
Did You Know? 54  
In Memoriam 56  
     
Volume 32, Number 2 Fall 2001 (Pages 59 to 112)    
The Formation of the Louisa County Historical Society - A Tribute to Porter C. Wright 59 John B. Gilmer
Fox Hunt of 1870 62 William B. Goodwin
The Hendrick Plantation 64 William H. Kiblinger, compiled by Eugenia Bumpass
Buck Hill 74 Claudia Chisholm
The Gardner Sisters After the War 78 Jill Ramsey
Update on the Restoration of White Walnut (continued) 94 Michael B. Seaton
The Karl Harris Store in Bumpass, VA 98 Marilyn Byrd Corker
Hasher Family Bible 101 Bernard E. Watkins, Jr.
Index 103  
Volume 33, Number 1 Spring 2002 (Pages 1 to 42)
Roots in Buckner 3 Ann Terrell Garrett
Public Colored School #9, February, 1886 19 Alice Burrows
End of An Era: The Last Years of the Gardner Sisters 21 Jill Ramsey
Reflections of Easter of Bygone Years 32 Josephine D. Wertham
Gum Spring 34 R. Daniel Booton
Annual Report of the Board of School Commissioners for 1861 38 The Central Virginian
Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools for 1861 40 The Central Virginian
Volume 33, Number 2 Fall 2002 (Pages 45 to 101) 45 Ann Terrell Garrett
Roots in Buckner (continued) 51 Captain John H. Garrett, Jr.
Excerpts From A Child of Northeastern Louisa County 53 Hervey Rosser Terrell
Good Road Convention at Louisa March 10, 1917 62 Captain John H. Garrett, Jr.
Letter from Robt. Hart to Hervey Terrell 63 Leona Woolfolk, intro by Josephine D. Werthan
Christmas Is a Time for Remembering 66 Michael B. Seaton
The Native Americans of Louisa County 73 Jill Ramsey
Grandma Jo Remembers Her Childhood 88 Pattie Cooke
Mr. Richard Shelton's Tour of Country Stores 90 A.G. Johnson
Reflections on Railroading in Louisa County 97  
Index 97  
     
Volume 34, Number 1 Spring 2003 (Pages 1 to 38)    
Letter from Susan Dabney Morris Watson, 1832 3 Henry Taylor
The Native Americans of Louisa County 7 Michael B. Seaton
A History of Williams/South Anna Baptist Church 14 Eugenia Bumpass
History of Berea Baptist Church 35 Anna Atkins Duffer
     
Volume 34, Number 2 Fall 2003 (Pages 45 to 66)    
Timberlake's Mill 45 Dr Malcolm Harris
Scholar and Linguist Spends Sunset of Life in Louisa 47 Lynn G. Guilford
Susan D. Watson's Application for Amnesty 49 Henry Taylor
Letter of Joseph L. Wills, 1919 51 Pattyie Cooke
Private Hadder's War 53 C. Champion Bowles, Jr
A Letter from Louisa 59 Jill Ramsey
Index 62  
     
Volume 35, Number 1 Spring 2004 (Pages 1 to 166)    
Portrait of an Old Confederate 1 Jill Ramsey
The Hart Family Papers 8 Kenneth Lancaster
Military Activity at Fredericks Hall During the War Between the States 18 Col. Walbrook Davis Swank
The Battle of Trevilians, Miscellaneous Commentary 27 W G. Ryckman
Mother's Race Across Battlefield Is Recalled 35 Thomas A. Whitlock
Netherlands, House and Tavern 41  
A Tribute to J. Murry Vest 47 Mrs. J Murry Hill
Monument Erected to a Faithful Slave 56 Doniphan Purcell Howland
Louisa County, Virginia, Survivors of the Immortal Six Hundred 60 Paul Murphy
Excerpts from the "Recollections" of R. T. W. Duke, Jr 64 Doniphan Purcell Howland
Civil War Letters of John Barret Pendleton 66 Anne Pendleton Forrest
Letter from the Front 72 David A. Kean & Margaret Kean Mulawa
Civil War Letter 75 Louis Leake Kean
Civil War Letter 76 Malcolm Hart Harris
Letter to A Confederate Camp 83  
Civil War Letter 86 Louis Leake Kean
Letter from Mrs. Waters, the Mother of Six Union Soldiers 88 Eugenia T Bumpass
Letter from William Wood to his Father Latane M. Wood 91 Frances Henson Atkins and Porter C. Wright
Letters of Maj. Gen. Alvin Coe Voris 93 Mrs. Nancy C. Baird
Letters of Maj. Gen. Alvin Coe Voris (continued) 98 Mrs. Nancy C. Baird
Civil War Comrades 104 Ms. Lizzie Brook Goodwin
Oakland Cemetery Tombstone Inscriptions 108 Porter C. Wright
Civil War Deaths 123 Claudia Anderson Chisholm
Another View of the War 125 Janice L. Abercrombie
The Confederate Monument at Louisa, Virginia 128 Porter C. Wright
What Louisa Did in the War Between the States 137 Dr. J William Jones
Speech of William Callis Kean at Confederate Monument Dedication 148 Louis Leake Kean
Civil War Letters of John Taylor Anderson 151 Pattie Pavlansky Cooke
Walker Correspondence February 1864 158 Thomas A. Whitlock
David M. Hunter Letter 161 Thomas A. Whitlock
A Soldier's Death 163 Pattie Cooke
Brackett's 166 George Nolting
     
Volume 35, Number 2 Fall 2004 (Pages 167 to 207)    
Louisa County Memorial Medical Service Center 167 Marilyn Byrd Corker
Hill-Burton Act 170 Marilyn Byrd Corker
A Personal Odyssey of Discovery 172 Michael B. Seaton
Dr. Nan Cooke Carpenter 177 Eugenia T Bumpass
The Restoration of the Crank Building 180  
Dedication; of the Crank Building Photos 183  
Free Union Gospel Church 186 Evelina D. Thurston & C. Champion Bowles Jr.
Chataigne’s Virginia Gazetteer, Louisa County 1888-1889 194 Frank B. Boxle
Index 201  
     
Volume 36, Fall 2005 (Pages 1 to 86)    
A Louisa Icon 1 C. Champion Bowles
Buffalo Soldiers 4 udy Seaton
Did You Know? 7 C. Champion Bowles
Dr. Nan Cooke Carpenter 8 Eugenia T Bumpass
Peter Crawford List 13 Pattie Cooke
Free Union Gospel Church 15 Evelima Thurston and C. Champion Bowles
Colonel Bartlett A. Henson 22 Pattie Cooke
History of Louisa County Airport/Freeman Field 24 James Bell
Lasley United Methodist Church 31 Eddie Hottinger
Lasley Ladies Aid Society Ledger 34 Pattie Cooke
Mineral Milling Co., Louisa Electric and Power Co., Mineral Crystal Ice, Co 42 Janice L. Abercrombie
The Profile of a Go-Getter 55 Eugenia T Bumpass
Louisa Monument to the Confederate Dead: 100th Anniversary Rededication Ceremony 72 Judy Seaton
     
Volume 37, Number 1 Spring 2006 (Pages 37 to 50)    
Activities of a Historical Society Intern 1 Stefanie Wallace
G O L D 19 Michael Gillespie
Katrina Aftermath 27 David L. Stone
Gas Tax 32 W.A.C. Pettit donated papers
Lawrence Family Oral History 33 Gordon B. Lawrence
Memories of Louisa High School (1927-1938) 35 Mary "E" Wright Mills Richardson
Moving Bethany Christian Church 43  
     
Volume 37, Number 2 Fall 2006 (Pages 51 to 108)    
A Letter to "Mr. President" 51 Porter C. Wright
From a jail to a Museum 53 Porter C. Wright
Louisa County Standard Measure 59 Porter C. Wright
Memories of Porter C. Wright 65  
The New Home of LCHS 70  
Secretary's Report 72  
Selected Documents 85 W.A.C. Pettit donated papers
     
Volume 38, Number 1 Spring 2007 (Pages 1 to 56)    
The Doles Family History 1 Linda K. Queen
Martha Long Gates Moss 12 Charles H. Gates
Latouche Island Mining Venture 14 Charles H. Gates
Agreement Between Alice Hanger and H. C. Long 24 Louisa County Historical Society Archives
Tobacco Spitting Contest 26 The Central Virginian
March Court Day 27  
The Education of Quintus 31 Jabez Quintus Massie
Provenance of the Sargeant-Pettit House 34 John B. Gilmer
Trevilians Post Office 35 Louisa County Historical Society Archives
Louisa's First High School 44 Louisa County Historical Society Archives
Kiskiack: The Henry Lee House, Yorktown, VA and Jamestown 2007 46 Doniphan Purcell Howland
     
Volume 38, Number 2 Fall 2007 (Pages 57 to 136)    
The Doles Family History 57 Linda K. Queen
Early Louisa County Rail and Highway Contractors 73 Standard F. Lanford
Good Things to Eat and How to Prepare Them 84 Louisa County Historical Society Archives
Two Letters 88 Louisa County Historical Society Archives
1915 Directory of Louisa County 91 Louisa County Historical Society Archives
Index 113