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In 2011, a road sign for Samuel Lee Gravely Jr. was made and put up by where his childhood home was. It details what the Department of Historic Resources belives is Gravely's historical importance.

This is a map of the Central State Hospital Campus Map in Petersburg in 1865. This map shows the location and function of each unit. Between the years of 1962 and 1968, the State Hospital was redesigned and upgraded.

Newspaper editorial

This portion of the article talks about how much E.B. White bought Morven Park for before Westmoreland Davis had purchased it. It also mentions who they bought the property from.

n this short dispatch from London’s Gentleman’s Magazine, originally printed in 1821, an anonymous writer—probably John Wood, a mathematics professor at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg—recounts his visit to a community of Nottoway…

George N. Barnard encapsulates the essence of the war, through this photograph depicting the loss innocence for the children witnessing the horrors of this era. By Sudley Springs Ford, The five children stand in shock as they witness the passage of…

The three-floor brick building was use as a jail or holding house for salve to be trade/sold to other state. The building was lease by two men, Isaac Franklin and John Armfield.

Law

The aggregate population of each county in each state of the United States of America, showing the number of free persons, the number of slaves, and the Federal or Representative number.