Category: History - American
I have read with a great deal of pleasure the book called _The Stronghold_, which relates the history of the Northern Neck of Virginia in story form and was written by my good friend, Miriam Haynie of Reedville, Virginia. Mrs. Haynie is a native of the Northern Neck of Virgini...
"Within is a country ... heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation.... Here are ... hils, plaines, valleys, rivers and brookes all running most...
6. PART IIThomas Barton, of Stafford County, asked a neighbor to stay with his children while he and his wife went away for a day. The obliging neighbor, his wife and three children, came...
7. PART IIIWhen Harry rolled up before Shirley in all the trappings of a Virginia governor, it is not surprising that the young daughter of the house saw in him her "heart's desire."
9. PART I--_SEVENTEENTH CENTURY1953, Williamsburg Antiques Forum, Theme: "European Influence on American Craftsmanship"; "Architecture Up to the Time of the Revolution." Speaker, Dr. Richard H. Howland, Chair...
10. PART II--_EIGHTEENTH CENTURYA pamphlet: "A Treaty held at the town of Lancaster, Penn., with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744, Philadelphia; printed and sold by Benjamin Franklin at the New Pr...
8. PART IVMany of the old houses burned, either accidentally or during the wars. Others fell into decay during the years of depression following the Civil War, and after traffic by boat w...
4. PART IV--CONCLUSIONI have read with a great deal of pleasure the book called _The Stronghold_, which relates the history of the Northern Neck of Virginia in story form and was written by my good f...
11. PART III--NINETEENTH CENTURYA notarized statement written in 1927 by a former member of the Northumberland Home Guard, Bertrand B. Haynie, Reedville, Va., addressed to the Virginia Pension Office in Richmo...
1. PART I--SEVENTEENTH CENTURY2. PART II--EIGHTEENTH CENTURY3. PART III--NINETEENTH CENTURY