Fredericksburg (Va.)

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LibraryPoint Blog, 1920s, 20th century, court cases, Dogs, Ferry Farm, films, Fredericksburg (Va.), History Feature Articles, Robert Hodge, Virginia History, History Blog
03/19/2010 - 10:49am

Long before Lassie became a famous film star there was another collie who was courted by movie directors. This remarkable "dog with a human brain" had his day in a Fredericksburg court room and escaped the death penalty.

Colonial Virginia
African American, Businesses, Colonial Virginia, Craftsmen, Education, Games, George Washington, Holidays, Jamestown, Kids Homework Help, Medicine, Recipes, Slavery, Teacher Resources, Virginia History, Virginia history for kids, Virginia Johnson, Williamsburg
03/15/2010 - 10:56am

What was it like to live long ago when Virginia belonged to England? When there were no cars, no computers, no hospitals and no public schools?

Without cars, trains or airplanes, people traveled by boat, horseback or on foot by "shank's mare". The reason so many colonial towns were located next to rivers is that often the roads were terrible seas of mud. It was so much easier to travel on the rivers!

Mary Ball Washington: "His Revered Mother"
18th century, Autobiography and Biography, Barbara Crookshanks, Fredericksburg (Va.), Genealogy, Genealogy, George Washington, Historic sites, History Feature Articles, Lafayette, Stafford County (Va.), Virginia History, Women
03/04/2010 - 4:18pm

Fredericksburg's Mary Ball Washington was an intrepid 18th-century woman who raised five children alone. The oldest became the first President of the United States.

Mary Washington's name and heritage are alive and well in the Fredericksburg area and beyond. Her home is at the corner of Lewis and Charles streets; the Mary Washington Monument is on Washington Avenue, which was originally Mary Washington Avenue.

The Good Doctor Was a Spy: The Lively Times of Robert Wellford
LibraryPoint Blog, 18th century, Alexander Spotswood, Fredericksburg (Va.), George Washington, History Feature Articles, Lewis family, Physicians, Robert Wellford, Spies, Spotswood family, Virginia History, Virginia Johnson, Wellford family, Whiskey Rebellion, History Blog
01/13/2010 - 2:55pm

One of Fredericksburg's leading citizens was either a patriot or a traitor, depending on whether you favored coats of Tory red or Revolutionary blue.

Shiloh Cemetery Graves
19th century, 20th century, African American, African Americans, Cemeteries, Fredericksburg (Va.), Genealogy, History Feature Articles, Robert Hodge, Shiloh Baptist Church (New Site), Shiloh Baptist Church (Old site), History Blog
01/11/2010 - 10:15am

Robert Hodge reported in 1981 that this is from a report prepared by a students of Germanna Community College in circa 1979. Report is not verified and was unsigned. Indeed, there is a variation in the name Bumbrey - represented as Bumbray here, but there are stones with Bumbrey in the cemetery. The original list was accompanied by the following statements:

"The following list of names is a list of people buried in an all black cemetery in the City of Fredericksburg at the corner of Monument Avenue and Littlepage Street.

A Discussion of Black History in the Development of Fredericksburg
African American, Fredericksburg (Va.), History, Lunch with History, Virginia Johnson, History Blog
11/05/2009 - 11:52am

From the Central Rappahannock Regional Library

Black Businesses and Services, Rappahannock Area compiled by Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., Xi Upsilon Omega chapter.
Copyright 1997.
Fredericksburg in the 50s
1950s, Fredericksburg (Va.), History, Lunch with History
11/04/2009 - 6:09pm

By Sue Willis, CRRL Staff

From the Central Rappahannock Regional Library

Coping with Jim Crow: Black Education in Fredericksburg by Constance Greer O'Brion.
Education and segregation in Fredericksburg from the 40's to the 70's.

A Different Story: A Black History of Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Spotsylvania, Virginia by Ruth Coder Fitzgerald.
Ms. Fitzgerald traces the area's black history from the colonial days to the 1970s. Includes photos of community leaders, past and present. Of particular interest are the following chapters: Moving into the Mainstream by the Reverend Lawrence Davies and "Let Him Speak" by Dr. Philip Y. Wyatt.
Fredericksburg's Wall of Honor: Honorees for 2000-2005
20th century, African American, Buildings, Civil Rights Movement, Factories, Fredericksburg (Va.), History Feature Articles, Hurkamp family, Ministers, Reconstruction era, Regional, Shiloh Baptist Church (New Site), Teachers, University of Mary Washington, Virginia History, Virginia Johnson, Wall of Honor
11/04/2009 - 5:50pm

Wanted: local leaders in education, medicine, civil rights, government, good works, patriotism, historic preservation, and other fields.

1885 Business Directory
African American, Business and Finances, Businesses, Dispatches, fraternal organizations, Fredericksburg (Va.), History, Regional, Virginia History
11/03/2009 - 5:00pm

This directory was printed in the main body of The Free Lance newspaper. 

The Free Lance.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1885.

[Entered at the Post-Office at Fredericksburg, Va., as second-class matter.] 

The Business of Fredericksburg.

Our Business Directory is as complete as we can make it for the present. It shows the organization of the city, the courts, the churches partially, the several societies, together with the date of their meetings, and also our active business men, individually, as firms.

His Royal Highness Frederick, Prince of Wales
18th century, Fredericksburg (Va.), History, Lunch with History, History Blog
11/03/2009 - 4:43pm

By Sue Willis, CRRL Staff

From the Central Rappahannock Regional Library

"Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales (1707-1751)" Dictionary of National Biography. Volume VII, pp. 675-678
A detailed article from the revered source for British biography. Available in the reference section of the headquarters library.