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
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
The Homan W. Walsh Diaries
Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-5
Abstract
Thirty four agenda notebooks (1930-1963).
Dates:
1930-1963
The Papers of Duke and Duke
Collection
Identifier: MSS-79-6
Abstract
Large collection of law practice records that document a small-town law office. There is correspondence, case files, legal, insurance and financial records, ledgers, 1854-1956.
Dates:
1854-1956