Central Rappahannock Heritage Center Collections, 1700s - present

Access and use

Location of collection:: Central Rappahannock Heritage Center

Central Rappahannock Heritage Center

900 Barton Street, Suite #111

Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Contact for questions and access:: POC: Roger Lawson

Email: contact@crhcarchives.org

Web: www.crhcarchives.org

Summary

Language:: Materials in this collection are in English .

Background

Scope and content:

The Central Rappahannock Heritage Center, located in historic Fredericksburg, Virginia, is a non-profit, all-volunteer organization whose mission is to preserve historically valuable material from the Fredericksburg region and make it available to the public for research. The Center holds more than 85,000 collection records, including photographs and original documents dating from the early 1700s. We collect and maintain records from the City of Fredericksburg and counties of Caroline, King George, Spotsylvania, and Stafford. In addition, the center has many personal and family letters and documents, local business records, church and civic organization records, school records, documents on slavery, genealogy records, bound newspapers, books, maps, postcards, and photographs, including thousands of scanned images that can be viewed online.

The online search page (https://crhc.pastperfectonline.com) allows users to browse the archive or search by keywords, names, and places.

Subject areas and holdings for specific localities include:

City of Fredericksburg

Aerial photographs
Architectural drawings
Banks
Black history and slavery
Cemeteries
Census and demographics
Churches
City directories 1888-1991
Civil War
Club records
D.A.R. Washington-Lewis Chapter
Daughters of the War of 1812
Deeds
Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. 875
Floods
Fredericksburg Masonic Lodge #4 records
Fredericksburg Police ledgers, 1926-1942
Free Lance-Star bound newspapers – January 1933 to December 1969
Free Lance-Star, assorted years
Genealogy
Knox family letters and photographs
Maps
Marriages
Maury School/Center
Militia
Mills, canals and waterways
Oral histories
Photographs
Plats
Postcards
Railroads
Robert Hodge indexes
Sanborn maps – various years
Schools and school yearbooks
Spanish-American War roster
Turner stereo-view photos
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Virginia’s Company K history
Voter Registration records to 1904
Works Progress Administration historical surveys

Caroline County

Court Records
U.S. Army Fort Walker (formerly Fort A. P. Hill) map of landowners before World War II (from Caroline County Historical Society)
Appeals and Land Causes 1787-1807
Architectural drawings
Cemeteries
Census records and demographics
Chancery Court deeds 1758-1845
Charter books 1902-1961
Churches
Clerk’s Order Books 1842-1864 1904-1927
Clerk’s Order Books abstracts, 1732-1789
Committee of Safety 1774-1776
Deed books
Ended Papers (court cases) to 1930’s
Enumeration of Caroline County 1880
Felons register 1888
Freemen 1865-1872
Friendly Ended Papers (court cases)
Genealogy
Guardian Bonds 1806-1821
Journals - Board of Supervisors 1890-1926
Land Books Alterations 1782-1798
Land tax lists 1802-1979
Loving case, original file 1964
Maps
Marriages
Minute books
Oral histories
Overseers of the Poor
Plats
Register of Children of Colored Persons Whose Parents Cohabiting Together as Husband and Wife 1866
Register of Children of Colored Persons Whose Parents had Ceased to Cohabit as of 1866
Revolutionary War Claims
Survey Books 1729-1762
Thomas Robson Hay research
Will books
Works Progress Administration historical surveys

King George County

Architectural drawings
Birth records
Census records
Churches
Civil war
Correspondence
Court records
Dahlgren history
Deeds
Directories
Genealogy
Indentures
King George Fall Festival 1962-2001
King George Historical Society research
Land records
Ledgers
Maps
Marriages
Oral Histories
Photographs
Plats
Postcards
Property assessments
School records
Scrapbooks
Slave records
Wills
Works Progress Administration historical survey records

Spotsylvania County

Court Records
Aero Service Corps aerial photographs, entire set 1937
Apprenticeship Indentures 1750-1850
Architectural drawings
Birth records 1864-1895, 1912-1915
Bonds for ordinaries, taverns, assessors and commissioners
Census and demographics
Churches
Civil War
Clubs
County accounts: bounty claims, roads, bridges, lunacy and taxes
Court records
Death records 1912-1915
Decedents
Deeds
Estate papers: accounts, appraisals, decedents and inventories
Free Negro papers: certificates, insolvents and petitions
Genealogy
Guardianships: appointments, accounts and bonds
Jail and courthouse records: accounts, inspections and repairs
Ladies Memorial Association
Land records: deeds, sales, leases and trusts
Land tax maps
Licenses for business and private entertainment
Maps
Marriages
Military papers: commissions, qualifications, paroles and patrolling
Mills, dams, canals and waterways
Minister appointments
Naturalization papers
Oaths and Appointments
Oral histories
Overseers of the Poor
Photographs
Plats
Poll books: elections records and precinct voter registrations
Postcards
Railroad papers and records
School records: bonds, petitions and commission reports, yearbooks
Service Claims for Revolutionary War, Civil War and Mexican-American War
Slave Papers: agreements, bills of sale, deeds of trust and manumissions
Spotsylvania Order Book extracts 1724-1739
Works Progress Administration historical surveys

Stafford County

Aquia Church
Architectural drawings
Cemeteries
Census
Chatham gardener records
Churches
Civil War
Correspondence
Crow’s Nest records
Deeds
Directories
Ferry Farm Civic Association
Genealogy
Land assessment cards 1930-2000
Land books
Maps
Oral histories
Overwharton Parish Register 1720-1760
Patawomeck Tribe
Photographs
Plats
Postcards
Quantico records
Schools and school yearbooks
Scrapbooks
Slave records
Virginia Railway Express
White Oak Primitive Baptist Church consent documents, early 1800's
Wills
Works Progress Administration historical surveys

Physical description:

1,800 linear feet

Collection