Botetourt County (Va.) Minute Book for Court Exemption from Military Draft, 1861-1865

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Botetourt County (Va.) Minute Book for Court Exemption from Military Draft, 1861-1865

http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi04136.xml

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Botetourt County (Va.) Board of Exemption.

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Botetourt County (Va.) Circuit Court.

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Botetourt County was named for Norborne Berkeley, baron de Botetourt, the royal governor of Virginia from 1768 to 1770. It was formed from Augusta County in 1769, and part of Rockbridge County was added in 1785. On 1970 December 15, a fire gutted the Botetourt County courthouse in Fincastle, Virginia. The court records were not burned but were heavily water damaged. Many of the court papers are extremely fragile today as a result of this water damage and some are not use...