Further investigating women’s voting rights in Louisa County, poll books indicate that many types of women registered to vote for the 1920 election. Besides observing different occupations, ages, and locations, varying races played a role in early…
Mrs. Netherland around 1900 on the front porch of the original Netherland Tavern, which faced the gravel road which runs parallel to the tracks beside the barn. If you look carefully along the gravel road, you will see the original foundation stones…
This courthouse was constructed about 1818 and is the one which was standing during the Civil War when Union troops came into Louisa County with the intent of destroying and disrupting Confederate support along the Central Virginia Railroad.
Having reached Louisa Court House on June 10, 1864, Gen. Wade Hampton's cavalry divisions bivouacked around the Virginia Central Railroad and across Union Gen. Philip H. Sheridan's route to Gordonsville. About 3 A.M. on June 11, Gen. Williams C.…
After riding across Virginia for three days on a raid to destroy parts of the Virginia Central Railroad, Gen. Philip H. Sheridan’s 9,300 cavalrymen and horse artillerists crossed the North Anna River at Carpenter’s Ford about two miles north,…
After breaking off the fighting of June 11, 1864, Confederate Gen. Wade Hampton's cavalry division withdrew to a position near here. Gen. Matthew C. Butler's South Carolinians spent the next morning preparing a stout defensive position along the bed…
A 9,300-man Union cavalry force under Gen. Philip H. Sheridan, on a raid to destroy parts of the Virginia Central Railroad, camped a few miles east on June 10, 1864. The next morning, Gen.…
When the comedic, yet poignant, movie “The Help†hit theaters and DVD, women of all ages and walks of life were driven to watch with a kind of frenzied urgency.
The film portrays young black women in the segregated south and the movie’s…
The Louisa Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy was chartered in 1919 but its members had been at work for years to help honor those, living and dead, who served the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Angus Duncan comes back to visit his nanny, Ellen Hooker, who was born into slavery. Duncan keeps a life-long bond with this woman who helped to raise him. Race relations are many layered and often complex.
It appears from the poll registration book transcriptions that Mrs. Maude Maddox of Poindexter was the very first woman to register to vote in Louisa County. She actually registered in June of 1920 a bit before the 19th Amendment was ratified. …
Bushrod Michie was born into slavery and, after the war, lived near Poindexter. He was appointed to carry the mail to the area from Trevilians Depot around the turn of the century (1900).
Bushrod's son, Harry, became a member of the White House…
Electricity meant everything from refrigeration to electric stoves and artificial lighting, and rural electrification radically altered the lives of rural women.
Zelma was the wife of William Shelton. They appear together in the second photo.…