Oaklands
Scope and Contents
There are newspaper clippings about the Watts family. Included is a newspaper article, "Number of Colored Residents Have Been Here for 50 Years," 28 January, 1934 about families in Roanoke that were enslaved 50 years earlier. Nettie Simms Calloway claims that her father, L. M. Simm, was owned by Colonel William Watts and that her great-grandmother was enslaved by General Edward Watts at Oaklands. Other family names of enslaved persons are named in the article.
An obituary for Colonel William Watts mentions that a large group enslaved people were around him at his death including Henry Langhorne who had attended him during the war and throughout his life. Colonel Watts left him $1,000 in his will and a permanent home.
Dates
- Creation: 1788-1950
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use.
Full Extent
From the Collection: 9 Cubic Feet (12 legal size document boxes, 1 half-size legal document box, 2 cubics of bibles, and 2 oversize boxes )
Partial Extent
From the Collection: .107 Gigabytes : 2,588 files, 2, 371 MS Word files, 176 Open office documents, 23 jpegs, 13 Apple/Double files, 3 tiffs, 1 pdf.
Partial Extent
From the Collection: 0.25 Cubic Feet : Oversize box: Photographs and certificates of Watts family members (deframed)
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library Repository
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
P.O. Box 400110
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22904-4110 United States