Eddie Woodward – The UncommonWealth

The Mystery of the Charlotte County Deteriorated Court Records

What’s the story behind the Charlotte County deteriorated loose court records housed in a miniature Plexiglas display case?The answer to this mystery begins (or ends)…

Eddie WoodwardNovember 19, 2025

Archives Conservation The Stacks

Rounding Out the 2024 Road Trips

In her latest CCRP Records Room Road Trips blog my fellow traveling consulting archivist colleague and friend, Tracy Harter appeared to suggest that I had…

Eddie WoodwardMarch 26, 2025

Archives Conservation The Stacks

Records Room Road Trips: Fall 2024

Have I mentioned that this was going to be an unusually slow travel season for me? Yes, I have.Prior to the opening of the annual…

Eddie WoodwardDecember 4, 2024

Archives Conservation The Stacks

Records Room Road Trips: Summer 2024

Have I mentioned that this was going to be an unusually slow travel season for me? Until recently, my courthouse visits had been sporadic and…

Eddie WoodwardAugust 21, 2024

Archives Conservation The Stacks

Records Room Road Trips: More Day Trippin’

This past March marked the eight-year anniversary for my colleague, Tracy Harter, and myself in our positions as Circuit Court Records Preservation Program (CCRP) consulting…

Eddie WoodwardJune 12, 2024

Archives The Stacks

Records Room Road Trips: Winter Circuit

And so, with my final week-long travel stay in Salem in August completed, my fellow traveler, Tracy Harter, and I settled into the post-frenzied-travel, winter…

Eddie WoodwardMarch 27, 2024

Archives Conservation

Records Room Road Trips: Rounding Out Summer 2023

In mid-August I began what might be termed the final leg of my summer CCRP travel schedule. Throughout the course of the spring and summer,…

Eddie WoodwardFebruary 21, 2024

Archives Conservation

Records Room Road Trips: June-July 2023

As my traveling colleague, Tracy Harter, mentioned in her last installment for Records Room Road Trips, we alternate posts between the two of us, and…

Eddie WoodwardOctober 27, 2023

Archives Conservation The Stacks

Records Room Road Trips: Charlotte, Campbell, Pittsylvania, and Henry Counties

As we mentioned in the last installment for the “Records Room Road Trips” series, the spring and summer have brought more overnight stays as we’ve…

Eddie WoodwardAugust 23, 2023

Archives Conservation

Records Room Road Trips: Day Trippers

Travel for Library of Virginia Circuit Court Records Program (CCRP) consulting archivists begins to taper off when the grants are announced, which this past year…

Eddie WoodwardJune 21, 2023

Archives

Alias Smith and Morris: Shady Dealings in a Civil War Era Marriage & Divorce

Visiting John and Lucinda Smith at their home in Belton, South Carolina, could be a little complicated if one were traveling from out of town.…

Eddie WoodwardNovember 10, 2021

Archives

Florida Connections in 1830s Richmond City Deeds

It is not uncommon to see immigration and migration references when processing local records collections, so it was not especially surprising to find a few…

Eddie WoodwardJuly 21, 2021

Archives

Checking in on Virginia clerks

The Commonwealth of Virginia, the Library of Virginia, and the 120 circuit court clerks’ offices across the state can document the history of their collaborative…

Eddie WoodwardAugust 12, 2020

Elwood Street (standing second from left) at a camera club meeting in Bridgeport, Connecticut, undated. Photograph courtesy of Greg Street.

Archives The Stacks

Virginia Courthouses: Wellsprings of Democracy

Editors’ note: This article originally appeared in the Fall 2017 issue of the CCRP Newsletter. A long history of collaboration exists between the Library of Virginia…

Eddie WoodwardApril 10, 2019

Archives

The Fives Battery and the Injured Lynchburg Lott

When processing a collection of old court papers, sometimes archivists have to use their imagination to interpret what was written. The words don’t always make…

Eddie WoodwardAugust 16, 2017