James River and Kanawha Canal (Va.)
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Austin-Twyman Papers
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 69 Au7
Scope and Contents
Papers, 1765 (1800-1890) 1939, of the Austin, Twyman, Spiller and Horsley families of Amherst and Buckingham counties, Virginia.The papers include correspondence, accounts, legal papers and manuscript volumes. Includes papers of Archibald Austin (1772-1837), member of Congress, 1817-1819, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, 1815-1816, 1835-1837, his wife, Grace R. (Booker) Austin and their children, James M. Austin, John Austin and Bernard Austin, Grace Austin and Frances...
Dates:
1765-1939
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
James River and Kanawha Company Records
Collection
Identifier: SC 00628
Scope and Contents
The collection relates to the James River Canal and Kanawha Company, which officially gained a charter in 1835. Included are a list of subscriptions sold to private individuals, a letter to the auditors office discussing current and previous subscriptions, a letter from a prospective surveyor and a list of tollage rates along the canal. Individuals mentioned are John Hartwell Cocke, and his son John Hartwell Cocke Jr.
Dates:
1834-1868
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
Robert Skipwith Diaries
Collection
Identifier: Mss. 65 Sk4
Scope and Contents
Diaries, 1834-1898, of Robert Skipwith kept in Goochland County, Va., Richmond, Va. and Powhatan County, Va. Much of Skipwith's life is documented by these 14 diaries and topics include weather, personal affairs (the loss of his wife, and his aging), farming, social life in his neighborhood, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and Virginia politics. He often included genealogical information on individuals when he recorded their deaths. Skipwith's 1862-1865 diary has been digitized...
Dates:
1834-1898
Found in:
Special Collections Research Center
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- Agriculture--Virginia--History--18th century 1
- American Temperance Union 1
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- Anti-slavery movements 1
- Buckingham County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
- Diaries 1
- Farm management--Virginia--History--19th century 1
- Financial records 1
- Goochland County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
- Legal documents 1
- Manuscripts (document genre) 1
- Medicine--Practice--Virginia 1
- Medicine--Study and teaching--Virginia 1
- Photographs 1
- Powhatan County (Va.)--History--19th century 1
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) 1
- Richmond (Va.)--History--19th century 1
- Slavery--Virginia--18th century 1
- Slavery--Virginia--History--19th century 1
- Slaves--United States--Correspondence 1
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- United States--History--War of 1812 1
- Virginia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 1
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