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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 Collection Echols family papers, 1818-1999

Series IV: Business records, 1818-1919. Extent: 1 box. Box 4 (folders 8-16)

Series IV: Business records includes bills and correspondence, 1905-1919, of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad; correspondence and receipts, 1906-1917, from Modern Woodmen of America; checks, 1911-1917, drawn on the Bank of Glasgow and on the People's Bank in Buena Vista, Virginia. Also includes pages from an unidentified account book, 1818, from Richmond, Virginia, containing accounts for Moses Echols; and an unidentified account book, 1885-1894, from near Lynchburg, Virginia.

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  2. Echols family papers, 1818-1999

Series V: General subjects. Extent: 1 box. Box 4 (folders 17-23)

General subjects includes clippings, programs, and other papers relating to the Echols family and the history of Rockbridge County, including articles on a monument to Frank Padgett (d. 1854) an enslaved African American who led a rescue effort of people involved in a boat accident along the James and North (Maury) Rivers.

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  2. Echols family papers, 1818-1999

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