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Library of Virginia

The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
Primary Collecting Areas:
State and local government records. Private Papers, including family records, personal papers, business, and organizational records. Prints & photographs, maps, architectural drawings & plans, state artwork, rare books.
Description:
The Library of Virginia is one of the oldest agencies of Virginia government, founded in 1823 to preserve and provide access to the state's incomparable printed and manuscript holdings. Our collection, which has grown steadily through the years, is the most comprehensive resource in the world for the study of Virginia history, culture, and government.
POC: Archives Reference Services
Phone: (804) 692-3888
Start Over Repository Library of Virginia Subjects Orphans--Virginia--Gloucester County.

Gloucester County (Va.) Charity School Records, 1826-1922 (bulk 1826-1884)

Gloucester County (Va.) Charity School.

Gloucester County (Va.) Charity School Records, 1826-1922 (bulk 1826-1884) are a series of volumes dealing with the care and education of the poor in Gloucester County, Virginia. The volumes contain information on local individuals and businesses that provided services or food to the poor, who the trustees and officers of the school were and the names of local residents that were permitted to take out loans. A few of the volumes contain loose papers as well. These volumes provide an excellent overview of how the economic, social and educational life of the county was impacted in the period before public education, the establishment of a banking system in the county and at a time when Virginians, by and large, were very poor during the post-Civil War reconstruction period. Due to their historical content, these records are rare in nature.

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