Inventor Name
Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society
Repository
James Madison University
Carrier Library
Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807
540-568-3612
http://www.lib.jmu.edu/special
Physical Description
1,700 items
Summary
This collection consists of approximately 1,700 items, in five Hollinger boxes and one flat box, and covers the dates 1740-1950. The collection is comprised of a very wide variety of legal, governmental, business, school, and church records, as well as personal papers, all primarily from the Central Shenandoah Valley (Rockingham, Shenandoah, Augusta, and Page Counties). Most are originals, but some photocopies are included. The Legal/Governmental Documents Series includes summonses, road documents, juror lists, delivery bonds, papers from the Sheriff's Office and the Circuit Courts of Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties, CSA Telegraph Reports, postal accounts, and miscellaneous other official reports, claims, applications, etc. The Business/Institutional Documents Series includes church histories and other church documents, school catalogs, slave purchase documents, records of Cootes' Store, and other miscellaneous business papers which are not related to families, such as the merger of the News Register Co. and Rockingham Publishing Co. The Individual/Family Documents Series contains deeds and indentures; letters; receipts; promissory notes and other financial papers, including those related to family businesses; certificates; and miscellaneous other documents. Of particular interest are the Harrison and Lincoln folders, which include several noteworthy deeds; and the Winfield folder, which includes several items relating to the Civil War. Arrangement McGahey Family. Letters, deed, survey, & appraisal of estate of Tobias R. McGahey, 1845; blacksmithing accounts; 1862 note from John Letcher; 1884 note from J.R. Jones; churn patents, & misc. 1809-1944 Box-folder: 3:McG-1 45 items
Finding Aid
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/jmu/vivadoc.pl?file=vihart00021.xml