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    <unittitle>Rockbridge Historical Society collection of papers</unittitle>
    <origination label="Creator">
      <persname role="com" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Turner, Charles W. (Charles Wilson)</persname>
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      <extent altrender="materialtype spaceoccupied">0.06 Linear Feet</extent>
      <extent altrender="carrier">6 folders</extent>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="approximate" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1939/1978" type="inclusive">circa 1939-1978</unitdate>
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      <language langcode="eng">English</language>
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    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>This collection consists of various records, such as meeting minutes, papers, and other printed materials, such as newspaper clippings. It contains several copies of a pamphlet of bicentennial historic dates that occured within Rockbridge County and the city of Lexington as compiled by Rockbridge Historical Society president Charles W. Turner.  It also contains a typescript from 1956, entitled The River Crossing at Jordan's Point by Martha Ann Spencer, that was submitted to the society's annual high school essay contest.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>The collection is open for research use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>[Identification of item], Rockbridge Historical Society Collection of Papers (RHS Coll. 0009), Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.</p>  </prefercite>
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    <geogname source="fast">Virginia -- Rockbridge County</geogname>
    <geogname source="fast">Virginia -- Lexington</geogname>
    <subject source="fast">Local history -- Societies, etc.</subject>
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