Papers of the Graham family [manuscript], 1754-1906.

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Papers of the Graham family [manuscript], 1754-1906.

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Consists of three collections: 38-106 contains primarily business correspondence; 38-107 and 38-303 contain ledgers and account books. Include business correspondence, journals, ledgers, time books, receipts, account books, and inventories of the Graham and Robinson families of Wythe County, Va., 1754-1906, relating chiefly to the mining and mercantile interests of Joseph J. Graham and David Graham in southwestern Virginia counties. Also include accounts for general merchandise, cobbler's works, wool carding, iron foundries, lead mines, and North Carolina copper mines; personal correspondence, ca. 1833-1841, chiefly of Calvin Graham, brother of David Graham, while attending medical school in Philadelphia, Pa. Topics included are Afro-American labor, mining and railroads; documents included are slave bills of sale and records of the Barren Springs Mining Company, the C.R. Mines, Calfee and Robinson, Fair Play Furnace, David Graham and Son, Graham's Forge Farmer's Club, Jackson Forge, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Graham's Forge, Samuel Quesenberry, Reed Island Iron Company, Paramont Furnace, and Peach Bottom Copper Mine. Also include supply orders issued by the Confederate States of America Army; will, 1754, of Stephen Watkins; land patent, 1755, for Amelia County; and miscellaneous printed matter.

3100 (ca.) items and 130 v.

University of Virginia. Library

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The Norfolk and Western Railroad originated with the 1838 chartering of the City Point Railroad, a line between Petersburg and City Point, Virginia. The line was purchased by the South Side Railroad in 1854, which, in turn, merged with the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad and the Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad, forming the Atlantic, Mississippi & Ohio Railroad in 1870. The AM&O fell into bankruptcy and was purchased in 1881, the new owners incorporating under the name Norfolk and Wes...

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

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