Foley, Louise Pledge Heath.
Summary: Information was abstracted from land records and quit rent rolls.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Foley 1974
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 Foley VOL. 1Griswold, Mac K.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1999
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.41 GRIMcClafferty, Carla Killough
Summary: Draws on primary source documents and photographs of historical artifacts to examine the lives of men and women enslaved by the Washington family, and includes information on the present-day archeological survey of Mount Vernon's Slave Cemetery.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 MCCLassieur, Allison
Summary: This encyclopedia offers readers the chance to explore the 63 national parks in the United States and its territories. Alongside photos of the parks, the text highlights each park's history, points of interest, and things to do. Features include glossary, additional resources, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Encyclopedias, an imprint of Abdo Reference 2023
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J917.3 LASDeVito, Carlo.
Summary: "The poignant, personal, and unbelievably true story of Mrs. Robert E. Lee and General Montgomery Meigs, and the founding of the Arlington National Cemetery, in the midst of America's greatest struggle--the Civil War"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2015
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 975 DEVCenturyLink
Summary: Includes -- Bear Lake -- Benzonia -- Beulah -- Burdickville -- Cedar -- Elk Rapids -- Empire -- Fife Lake -- Glen Arbor -- Glen Lake -- Hannah -- Honor -- Interlochen -- Karlin -- Kingsley -- Lake Ann -- Lake Leelanau -- Lime Lake -- Little Traverse Lake -- Maple City -- Mayfield -- Northport -- Summit City -- Suttons Bay -- Traverse City -- Williamsburg.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: CenturyLink 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R PHONE 2017 CenturyLinkKearse, Bettye
Summary: A descendant of a slave named Coreen, and-according to oral tradition-her owner, President James Madison, finally shares her family's story.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920 KEARiordan, Rick.
Summary: After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway Digital Audio 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC RIOMicklos, John
Summary: "The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a once-mighty oak tree there become a symbol of the conflict? What can its story tell us about that day's battle and the broader history of the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MICBurch-Brown, Carol.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Virginia 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 643.2 RIGWiencek, Henry.
Summary: A reassessment of the third president draws on new archaeological studies and previously disregarded personal records to explore his contradictory views on slavery while examining what is revealed by his monetary records.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, THOMAS WIEBynum, Victoria E.
Summary: Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, and aided by women, slaves, and children who spied on the Confederacy and provided food and shelter, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River. There,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976 BYNNorris, J. E.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Virginia Book Co. 1972
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3755 NORWard, Logan.
Contents: Goodbye, New York -- Old year's eve -- Expedition to nowhere -- How I learn to drive -- Waiting for rain -- Picking, cleaning, shelling, shucking -- News from the future -- Under fire -- Home for the holidays -- Winter -- Breeding season -- Back to the future.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Dell 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Garden Home WardContents: Farm plat book, [1956] -- Farm plat book with index to owners, [1962] -- Tri-annual atlas & plat book, 1965 -- Triennial atlas & plat book, [1969] -- Atlas & plat book, [1972], 1975, 1978 -- Land atlas & plat book, 1980 -- Land atlas and plat book, 1982, 1985, 1987, 1989 -- Land atlas & plat book, 1992, 1995, 1997, 2000 -- Plat book, 2003, 2011.
Format: cartographic
Publisher / Publication Date: Rockford Map Publishers 1956
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1 available in Genealogy Atlas Stand, Call number: R GEN 912 PLAT Montcalm 2011Summary: A shocking and outlandish year-in-the-life documentary about the White Family of Boone County, West Virginia's most notorious extended family, with shoot-outs, robberies, gas-huffing, drug dealing and using, pill popping, murders, and tap dancing. Nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, the White family glorifies their criminal behavior and lives an existence more like something from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video Group 2010
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WILKearse, Bettye
Summary: "A descendant of a slave named Coreen, and-according to oral tradition-her owner, President James Madison, finally shares her family's story."--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 KEALevy, Janey
Summary: Mount Vernon, George Washingtons residence, holds a special place in US history and in the hearts of many Americans. But its history of slavery has remained largely hidden until recently. Thats because its difficult to accept the contradiction of a Founding Father who fought for liberty, but engaged in the practice of slavery. This thought-provoking volume uses the discoveries of archaeologists...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gareth Stevens Publishing 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.4 LEVBrown, Rita Mae
Summary: Mary Minor "Harry" Harristeen investigates a murder in Albermarle County, Virginia with assistance from her beloved pets, including cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter and dogs Pirate and Tucker.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2024
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Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abbeville Press 1983
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.46 ADASummary: A delightful story of a veterinarian's apprentice in rural England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2010
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ALLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Al 1Green, Kristen.
Summary: Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 GREShuck, Larry G. (Larry Gorden)
Contents: v. 1. Greenbrier Co. (West) Virginia early survey records, 1780-1799, Greenbrier Co. (West) Virginia early court minutes, 1780-1801, 1811, 1817-1819, Greenbrier Co. (West) Virginia court record books, 1828-1835, district court records, Batetourt, Greenbrier, Kanawha, and Montgomery counties, 1792-1797, district court deeds, Sweet Springs Virginia court house, 1789-1808 -- v. 2. Greenbrier...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Iberian Pub. Co. 1988