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Virginia Christian: The Last Woman Executed by Virginia?

Editor's Note: Original post edited for clarity. For more information on Ida V. Belote see Souls of the Departed: Ida V. Belote On 16 August 1912,…

Roger ChristmanSeptember 14, 2010

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Broken Vows

In 1913, Mary Ella Gray stated in a deposition that she moved to her parents’ home in Fredericksburg after her husband James “continuously abused me,…

Joanne PorterSeptember 8, 2010

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We can’t all age gracefully

The fate of the Richmond Coliseum has been in question recently, with the city soliciting input from business leaders, local officials, and a consulting firm…

Jessica Tyree BurgessSeptember 1, 2010

Digital Projects

Charlotte County Chancery Causes Now Available

The Library of Virginia (LVA) is pleased to announce the completion of an additional digital scanning project. The processing, indexing, and digital reformatting of the…

Roger ChristmanAugust 26, 2010

Archives Conservation

Friday Night Lights ca. 1900.

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

The Stacks

Latest issue of Broadside is now available

The summer 2010 issue of Broadside, the Library of Virginia’s quarterly magazine, is now available. Broadside describes and illustrates the holdings and happenings at the Library of Virginia. Discover fascinating…

Roger ChristmanAugust 20, 2010

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That’s Some Magic Bullet: Thirty-Eight Years After Revolutionary War, Bullet Exits Louisa Man’s Arm. Surfaces in Library’s Vault

Edward Houchins, a veteran of Captain Edmund Curd’s Company of Goochland Militia, petitioned the General Assembly on 10 December 1818, requesting an increase in his forty-dollar-a-year…

Craig MooreAugust 18, 2010

Archives Manuscripts & Special Collections The Stacks

What’s New in the Archives

Interested in what’s new in the archives at the Library of Virginia? You can find out in two reports compiled quarterly by LVA staffers: The Library of Virginia…

Roger ChristmanAugust 16, 2010

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Sulphur, scams, and sketches

Wracked by tuberculosis (or consumption as it was then called), 23 year-old Martin Duralde spent a month and a half during the summer of 1846…

Trenton HizerAugust 11, 2010

Digital Projects The Stacks

Two New Digital Collections Added at LVA

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce two new digital collections just added to DigiTool and Virginia Memory. Lost Records Localities digital collection is an…

Kathy JordanAugust 10, 2010

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Local Editorial Contemplates Smyth County’s Cohabitation Register

Editor's Note: The following editorial is reprinted here courtesy of the Smyth County News & Messenger. It originally ran 28 July 2010. A team from…

Guest ContributorAugust 9, 2010

Manuscripts & Special Collections

Ripped From the Family Bible

When I found an unopened envelope labeled “Exhibit A” among the papers of a Rockingham County Chancery cause, I was curious to see what could…

Dale DulaneyAugust 4, 2010

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Doppelganger: Double Trouble

There is an old saying that everyone has a double somewhere. To my surprise, I found mine in a most unlikely place: the Virginia State…

Roger ChristmanJuly 28, 2010

Archives Digital Projects

Spreading the word

Staff from the Library of Virginia (LVA), including Laura Drake Davis of the CW150 Legacy Project — Western Region, Senior Finding Aids Archivist Trenton Hizer,…

Renee SavitsJuly 21, 2010

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A Tree Grows In… Chancery!

When Mary Walker Cabell died in 1862, a series of chancery suits were filed in Nelson County by her numerous descendants in an attempt to…

Callie FreedJuly 14, 2010