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Charlottesville (Va.) -- History -- 19th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

African American Hugh Carr family, River View Farm, and the Papers of the Ivy Creek Foundation

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 10770
Scope and Contents The papers contain correspondence, legal documents (copies), clippings, articles, research material, maps, and photographs concerning the Ivy Creek Natural Area and its history as the River View Farm owned by the Carr family (African Americans in late nineteenth century), including the original purchase by the Nature Conservancy, the formation of the Ivy Creek Foundation, and its administration of the property.Included among these is a notebook titled, Ivy Creek Natural Area...
Dates: 1916-1988

Duke family law firm papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-79-6
Scope and Contents The Duke law firm papers include correspondence, case files, legal, insuarance, and financial records, as well as ledgers. The files provide extensive documentation of a small-town family practice. Since the insurance business and the Dukes' family business affairs were handled in the same office as the law practice, these files have remained with the legal files. The family correspondence found with these papers was transferred to Special Collections in Alderman Library. The...
Dates: circa 1820 - 1959

Homan W. Walsh diaries

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-5
Scope and Contents

This collection contains thirty-four handwritten diaries written by Homan W. Walsh, a Charlottesville lawyer, spanning the years 1930-1963. These diaries contain Mr. Walsh daily plans and some observations on different topics.

Dates: 1930 - 1963

Hugh Carr family papers and River View Farm

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 10176
Scope and Contents This collection consists of the history of Hugh Carr, an African American born in enslavement in 1843 and his family who lived on a tract of land (River View Farm) that Carr and his wife Texie Mae Hawkins bought in 1870 after emancipation. He became one of the largest African American landowners in Albemarle County, where he raised several generations of his family in the Union Ridge Hydraulic Mills community, until his death in 1914.The papers show that Carr highly valued...
Dates: 1843-1978

K. Edward Lay Papers-addition 16

 Unprocessed Material — Box BW 47, Folder: 1/1
Identifier: ViU-2022-0102
Dates: January 6-December 31, 2021