Business/Institutional Documents, 1816-1950; undated.

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Business/Institutional Documents, 1816-1950; undated.

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Contains documents for Cootes' Store; church histories/other similar papers; school documents; and other miscellaneous business papers not related to families. A number of documents for Cootes' Store include legal and financial records, charges and receipts, post office records, and records relating to a bark business. Church histories/directories, etc. are for local area churches (ex. Cooks Creek Presbyterian Church; Methodist Church, Dayton; Port Republic Methodist Church; St. Stephens Reformed Church, Harrisonburg; Trissels Mennonite Church, Broadway and the Hebrew Congregation of Harrisonburg, the latter incl. a history of Jewish settlement in the area. An undated TM "Some Old Churches of Rockingham and Neighboring Counties" by Ruebush and Wayland is also included. (cont.) School documents include catalogs for a Girl's Home School which later became the Van Bora College for Young Ladies, and a State Summer Institute for Teachers, both at Luray; and a Prospectus for an Industrial School at Massanetta Springs. Miscellaneous business papers include the By-laws of the Page Valley Telephone Co.; an 1855 Rockingham Mutual Fire Insurance Co. policy; a subscription form for the Golden Horseshoe Tavern, Elkton; and information on a 1913 (?) merger of the News Register Co. and the Rockingham Pub. Co.

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Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society

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Civil War records within the collection were issued by government entities, including the Department of the Interior and the Treasury Department, along with various war offices. Notable individuals with papers represented in this collection include local Shenandoah Valley historian John W. Wayland, 1872-1962, and Cassie Moncure Lyne, 1875-1955, a Civil War writer and poet from Virginia. From the guide to the Civil War Miscellaneous Collection, 1860-2005, (Special Collections, James M...

Beth El Congregation (Harrisonburg, Va.)

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Port Republic Methodist Church (Va.)

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St. Stephen's United Church of Christ (Harrisonburg, Va.)

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Cook's Creek Presbyterian Church (Rockingham County, Va.)

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Rockingham Publishing Company (Va.)

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News Register Company (Va.)

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Rockingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company (Va.)

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Trissels Mennonite Church (Broadway, Va.)

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Page Valley Telephone Company (Va.)

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Methodist Church (Dayton, Va.)

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Cootes' Store.

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Golden Horseshoe Tavern (Elkton, Va.)

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Girls' Home School (Luray, Va.)

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