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Board Meeting Notice Post Card Back
letter stating the date of the next school board meeting
Black Teacher's Pay Receipt
This pay receipt demonstrates a short period of equality between white and African American teachers in the Jackson District of Louisa. Later, this pay receipt, for Alice Burrows, an African American teacher, would be much lower than that of a white…
Bill of sale received of Henry Wood
Henry Wood, Cumberland County, slave named Edmund Gibson
Bill of sale of negro servant received by (?) H. Wood
Henry Wood, Richardson
Bill of sale for negro addressed to Alex McRae including charges
Alex McRae, Betty, charges for clothes etc., 2% commission
Bear Castle, Home of Dabney Carr
Born at Bear Castle in 1743, Dabney Carr was a boyhood friend of Thomas Jefferson, and a classmate in the late 1750s of Jefferson, James Madison and John Taylor at Reverend James Maury’s school on the Louisa-Albermarle County line. In 1758, when…
