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The Short Happy Life of The Chickahominy Sun Newspapers

The Short Happy Life of The Chickahominy Sun

The above title stands as a slight upgrade, it is hoped, to the first headline of this small town weekly’s blog  introduction, the simply descriptive-Now…
Henry Morse
Henry MorseMay 29, 2013
Everything I know about the Constitution, I learned from Chester the Crab (and Star Trek) Manuscripts & Special Collections

Everything I know about the Constitution, I learned from Chester the Crab (and Star Trek)

Not long ago, I caught ”The Omega Glory” episode of Star Trek on television.  Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are trapped on a planet very similar to…
Trenton Hizer
Trenton HizerMay 29, 2013
Tobacco Census: Fixing the "Frauds and Mischiefs" of the Tobacco Trade Archives

Tobacco Census: Fixing the "Frauds and Mischiefs" of the Tobacco Trade

Virginia’s agricultural production, as well as its economy, was dominated by tobacco for over three centuries, ever since John Rolfe sent his first shipment of…
Sarah Nerney
Sarah NerneyMay 22, 2013
Lost 19th Century Rockingham Co. Wills Found at LVA ArchivesConservation

Lost 19th Century Rockingham Co. Wills Found at LVA

Individuals today wishing to conduct research using Rockingham County court records may encounter a few stumbling blocks. Due to two major events in the locality’s…
Callie Freed
Callie FreedMay 8, 2013
Legislative Petition Digital Project Up and Running ArchivesDigital Projects

Legislative Petition Digital Project Up and Running

Public improvements, military claims, divorce, manumission of slaves, division of counties, incorporation of towns, religious freedom, and taxation are just some of the concerns expressed…
Craig Moore
Craig MooreMay 1, 2013
I Fought the Railroad and Won, or Did I? Archives

I Fought the Railroad and Won, or Did I?

While examining the James City County/Williamsburg court records recently, I came across a civil suit titled Gatewood vs. Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company that contained two oversize…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordApril 24, 2013
From the files of a funeral home Manuscripts & Special Collections

From the files of a funeral home

Editor’s Note: This blog post originally appeared in the Summer 2002 issue of The Delimiter, an in-house Library newsletter, and has been edited slightly. Among the vast…
Jessica Tyree Burgess
Jessica Tyree BurgessApril 17, 2013
Courage Undaunted: Project staff brave the elements to help preserve and provide access to the Southwest Virginia Enterprise. Newspapers

Courage Undaunted: Project staff brave the elements to help preserve and provide access to the Southwest Virginia Enterprise.

Thanks to the many alert colleagues throughout the Commonwealth, the Virginia Newspaper Project continues to receive tips from the field about original ink press newspaper…
Errol Somay
Errol SomayApril 16, 2013
The Beauty of Hand Lettering in Newsprint Newspapers

The Beauty of Hand Lettering in Newsprint

There is a growing interest in the lost art of hand-lettering as evidenced by the recent premier of Sign Painters at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. in…
Silver Persinger
Silver PersingerApril 12, 2013
First Images of Rockingham Chancery Are In! ArchivesDigital Projects

First Images of Rockingham Chancery Are In!

The Library of Virginia is pleased to announce that the first digital images from the Rockingham County Chancery Causes are now available on the Chancery Records…
Greg Crawford
Greg CrawfordApril 12, 2013
Richmond panned by press! — Restauranteurs “swindlers and knaves” say soldiers — One dollar twenty-five cent outrage! Newspapers

Richmond panned by press! — Restauranteurs “swindlers and knaves” say soldiers — One dollar twenty-five cent outrage!

The Family Budget was a hand-written camp newspaper by Edward Budget, Confederate soldier in Hampton’s Legion which was formed after South Carolina seceded.  The Library of…
Natalie Draper
Natalie DraperApril 10, 2013
Don’t Bush My Stand Archives

Don’t Bush My Stand

Interested in commercial fishing techniques used in Virginia’s Northern Neck around the turn of the 20th century? Take a look through the Northumberland County circuit…
Sam Walters
Sam WaltersApril 9, 2013
Murder Most Fowl Archives

Murder Most Fowl

On 17 April 1875, Anna Williams of 313 Canal Street in Richmond heard a noise and went outside to investigate only to discover a plank…
Mary Dean Carter
Mary Dean CarterApril 3, 2013
April Fools’ Day, 1863 Archives

April Fools’ Day, 1863

Even during wartime, soldiers managed to have a sense of humor … April Fools' prank, 1863. Caroline County Military and Pension Records, 1864, Local Government…
Bari Helms
Bari HelmsApril 1, 2013
Journey to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains with the Mountain Laurel Newspapers

Journey to the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains with the Mountain Laurel

I would like to introduce you to the Mountain Laurel, a unique paper from Meadows of Dan, Virginia. The Mountain Laurel warned readers that it would “not…
Natalie Draper
Natalie DraperMarch 29, 2013
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