Collections

Start Over Date range 2000 Places Rockingham County (Va.) -- History Level Collection

Charles T. Smith photographs 1.26 cubic feet 3 boxes

Smith, Charles T., 1932-2024 (Charles Thomas)
The collection comprises original photographs, postcards, enlargements, and reproduction photographs documenting the eastern and southeastern sections of Rockingham County including Cross Keys, McGaheysville, Penn Laird, Port Republic, Pineville, and Elkton.
  1. James Madison University

Dudley and Rexrode Family Papers 1.26 cubic feet 4 boxes

Dudley family
Personal papers and ledgers relating to the Dudley and Rexrode families of Augusta County, Virginia. Included in this collection are the receipts, invoices, and tax documents of Edward Alexander Dudley; ledgers from the practice and pharmacy of Dr. Charles Pinkey Rexrode; ledgers from the agricultural business of Arthur B. Dudley; family photographs; and documents from the Mossy Creek Presbyterian Church in Mt. Solon, Virginia.
  1. James Madison University

Eldon Bowman collection of Bowman family papers 2.8 cubic feet 6 boxes, 2 audiocassettes 118 Megabytes 46 digital files

Bowman family
The Eldon Bowman Collection of Bowman Family Papers, 1797-2019, comprises genealogical materials (photocopied and original), correspondence, and family papers related to the Bowman family of Rockingham County, Virginia specifically the Eli Martin Bowman (1861-1950) and Amanda Hollar Bowman (1865-1936) line.
  1. James Madison University

Heatwole Family Papers 2.39 cubic feet 6 boxes

Heatwole family
The Heatwole Family Papers, 1838-2001, document descendants of David Heatwole (1767-1842). The collection documents the Virginia Heatwoles, specifically those of Mt. Clinton and Dale Enterprise, as well as the Trumbos of Fulks Run. Materials include correspondence, financial records, personal papers, photographs, and ephemera.
  1. James Madison University

Henkel Family Papers 2.08 cubic feet 6 boxes

Henkel family
The Henkel Family Papers, 1801-2008, document the influential Henkel family of Rockingham and Shenandoah counties in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The collection, primarily documenting the Siram and Margaret Koiner Henkel line of the family, is comprised of correspondence, personal and financial papers, and genealogical research materials. The Renalds family is heavily documented in the 2023 accession materials.
  1. James Madison University

John G. Stewart Papers 2.29 cubic feet 5 boxes, 1 flat file

Stewart, John, 1918-2010
Research materials and topical files pertaining to Shenandoah Valley folk culture including recipes, cures for ailments, folklore stories, and other traditions gathered and documented by John G. Stewart and Elmer Smith, former professors at Madison College (James Madison University).
  1. James Madison University

Linville scrapbook and daybook 0.47 cubic feet 1 box

Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
One 800-page bound volume that was originally used as a daybook and was partially repurposed as a scrapbook to include pasted-in and loose scrapbooking elements, newspaper clippings, and printed ephemera.
  1. James Madison University

Lucy Simms oral histories 0.09 cubic feet 5 folders, 6 audiocassettes

Getachew, Wondwossen
The oral history collection includes the recollections of Carlotta Harris, Edgar Johnson and wife, Wilhelmina Johnson, Louise Winston, and Elon Rhodes, former students of Lucy Simms, and Ellen Walker, current owner of the Lucy Simms house.
  1. James Madison University

Trio Beauty Salon Records 1.39 cubic feet 3 boxes

Clatterbuck, Beulah Ruth Kerns, 1915-2017
The Trio Beauty Salon Records, 1935-2007, consist of three boxes containing various records related to the Trio Beauty Salon in Harrisonburg, Virginia including legal and financial documents, record books, and personal documents of the operators of the salon.
  1. James Madison University

Wise Family collection 0.17 cubic feet 2 boxes

Wise family
The Wise Family Collection consists of genealogical records related to the Wise family of Rockingham County, Virginia and information about the Wise family home in Bridgewater, Virginia. The family Bible, Biblia, das ist: Die ganze Heilige Schrift dess Alten und Neuen Testaments, has been separated from the collection and cataloged as the Wise Family Bible.
  1. James Madison University

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