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1. HRHS-198 - Time Capsule Collection

   BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce buried a time capsule on Court Square in Harrisonburg in 1966. This time capsule was opened on April 26, 2016 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Chamber of Commerce serving the community. SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection has archival and non-archival items included in the time capsule. COLLECTION INVENTORY: Box 1: Folder 1: Chamber of Commerce: -Agenda for T...

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2. HRHS-199 - Harrisonburg Realty Corporation Collection

   BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Harrisonburg Realty Corporation was established at a meeting of stockholders on October 20, 1909 in Harrisonburg, Virginia. The officers and directors were: E. W. Carpenter, President; W. J. Dingledine, Vice President; R. B. Smythe, Treasurer; and Walter N. Sprinkel, Secretary. From the minute book: "The purpose for which it is formed are the purchase and sale of lands, lots, houses, and other real estate; the erection o...

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3. HRHS-200 - Miscellaneous Photographs Collection

   SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection consists of groups of photographs that are donated and possibly only one or two are identified, or maybe none are identified. The donor may have provided information that they are from a certain family or from an area in the county. COLLECTION INVENTORY: Filed by donor name: Bowers, Beth, 8 photos from Anthony Seeger Campus School, 1962 - 1969, Scanned Photo 5152, Acc. 2024.46 Brush, James W., 7 un...

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4. HRHS-201 - Unionists and the Civil War Experience Collection

   BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Six years after the end of the Civil War, on March 3, 1871, the U. S. Congress established the Southern Claims Commission. This organization provided the means through which southerners could apply for reimbursement for property taken during the war. To successfully make such an application, southerners had to file a formal petition which established their loyalty to the Union during the war. That petition was then reviewe...

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5. HRHS-202 - Ruebush-Kieffer Company Collection

   BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Ephraim Ruebush and Aldine Kieffer were both grandsons of Joseph Funk and learned the printing trade at his publishing company Joseph Funk & Sons, which was started in 1847 in Singers Glen, VA. Mr. Funk died in 1862, and Mr. Ruebush and Mr. Kieffer acquired the publishing company, renaming it the Ruebush-Kieffer Co., Publishers and Printers. The company continued to expand and in 1878 moved to larger quarters on Main Street...

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6. HRHS-203 - Joseph Funk Collection

   BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Joseph Funk (1778-1862) was a pioneer American music teacher, publisher, and an early American composer. He invented a shape note system in 1851 for a publication titled The Harmonia Sacra. He was born in 1777 in Bucks County, PA and moved with his family in 1786 to the village of Singers Glen in Rockingham County, VA. Joseph Funk was married and widowed twice; his first wife was Elizabeth Rhodes who died leaving five chil...

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7. HRHS-204 - Hobby Robinson Collection

   BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Hobby Robinson was Elkton's unofficial historian and photographer for over 50 years and died at age 76 in 1993. His father owned a department store located at 208 Spotswood Avenue in Elkton called Robinson's Department Store. Hobby is remembered for the thousands of photographs he took of the town's people, buildings, and events. SCOPE AND CONTENT: This collection contains books written by Hobby Robinson about the peopl...

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8. HRHS-205 - Fred Cooper Sketch Collection

   BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Fred Cooper was an avid ink sketcher and historic artist and produced many sketches of homes, buildings, churches, railway stations, etc. in Harrisonburg Rockingham County. Fred was well known and was full of stories about how things "used to be" in Harrisonburg. He was born and raised in Harrisonburg and he died there on April 11, 2015. SCOPE AND CONTENT: This is a collection of sketches by Fred Cooper. Most of the ske...

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9. HRHS-206 - Miscellaneous Deed and Survey Collection

   SCOPE AND CONTENT: Collection of deeds, indentures, land grants and surveys that are not a part of an existing collection. COLLECTION INVENTORY: Deeds/Indentures/Land Grants: Folder 1: (A-B) -Deed dated July 5, 1913 between Charlotte and John W. Anderson & Irene Goodlow and C. M. Meyers for a lot in Broadway situate on the south end of Central Street. (donated by Mary Nelson) -Indenture dated January 21, 1834 between Washington & Sa...

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10. HRHS-207 - Miscellaneous Wills Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: A will is a legal document expressing a person's wishes as to how their property is to be distributed after their death. SCOPE AND CONTENT: Collection of miscellaneous wills that are not part of a collection. COLLECTION INVENTORY: Folder 1: -Will for George Branner dated March 13, 1861 -Will for Jacob Eversole dated April 8, 1804 -Will for James Hall dated February 1, 1835 Folder 2: -Will for David Harrison dat...

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11. HRHS-208 - Miscellaneous Documents Collection

    SCOPE AND CONTENT: This is a collection of miscellaneous archival documents. COLLECTION INVENTORY: Folder 1: -1783 bond by John Thomas, Conrad Humble, James Davis, Col. Benjamin Harrison, Henry Ewing, John Grattan, George Chrisman, and Josiah Davidson are held and firmly bound to Jaquelin Ambler, Esq., Treasurer of Virginia, in the sum of ten thousand pounds for taxes and duties imposed by an Act of Assembly made at Richmond. -1784 Depos...

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12. HRHS-209 - Senator George B. Keezell Family Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Sen. George B. Keezell was born in 1854 in Keezletown, Virginia on his grandfather's ancestral farm. His long political career began with his election as Justice of the Peace in Rockingham County at the age of 21. After serving in that capacity for eight years, he was elected to the State Senate of Virginia. For over 30 years, Sen. Keezell served the community in both chambers of the Virginia General Assembly. Senator...

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13. HRHS-210 - Mary Frances Awkard Fairfax Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Mary Frances Awkard Fairfax was a well-known and well-loved educator in Harrisonburg, spending four decades in the classroom. She started her teaching career in Staunton and Bridgewater, then moved to Harrisonburg where she taught at the Lucy F. Simms School from 1941 until it closed in 1966. After the city desegregated its classrooms, she taught for 10 years at Waterman Elementary School. At an awards banquet in 1993 Mrs. ...

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14. HRHS-211 - Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission (now called the Virginia Department of Historic Resources) has as its primary objective the recognition and protection of all structures in the Commonwealth which are of significance. The Commission began a program of more intensive, county-by-county surveys in the summer of 1978 presided over by Ann McCleary. This collection contains copies of over 200 surveys with the majority fro...

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15. HRHS-212 - Cromer Correspondence Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The donor's grandfather, Roy Clifton Cromer was born in 1884 in Harrisonburg, Virginia and spent his early years through college in nearby Dayton. He married Mabel Alice Tiffany in 1917 in Beloit Rock, Wisconsin and practiced law most of his life in Wisconsin. This collection is primarily correspondence between Roy and Mable Cromer and their daughter Mary Jane Cromer Clarke. The letters and documents span the nineteenth and ...

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16. HRHS-213 - Rockingham Construction Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The following history was obtained from Getting the Job Done, The Story of Rockingham Construction Co., Inc., by Nancy Bondurant Jones, 1937-1987, with updates and appendices by Winston Weaver Jr. and Carl Martin. This publication is available in the Rocktown History book store. The hottest topic of conversation whenever Rockingham County farmers got together in the late 1930s was the plan for Shenandoah Valley Electric C...

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17. HRHS-214 - Dale Enterprise Weather Station Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The Dale Enterprise Weather Station in Rockingham County is the oldest weather station in Virginia, the first weather diaries were started in 1868 by a teenager named L. J. Heatwole. He became part of an evolving group of volunteers across the country dedicated to observing and recording the weather. The National Weather Service (NWS) Cooperative Program (Coop) is the Nation's weather and climate observing network. The C...

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18. HRHS-215 - Harrisonburg Boys Band Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Joseph Wampler had a dream. He believed that you could take a group of boys, teach them to play musical instruments, form a band, and travel to small towns and big cities entertaining people. This might have remained just a dream, but Joseph Wampler, a grocer by trade, devoted countless hours, days and months to this idea, and the Harrisonburg Boys Band became a reality. From its beginning in 1931, until the restrictions...

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19. HRHS-216 - Earman/Tutwiler Papers Collection

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: J. W. Earman-Dealer in Agricultural Implements, Fertilizers and Chemicals was a profitable business located in Cross Keys, VA. This collection has notes, receipts and bank deposit slips from this business from 1874 - 1891. In 1868, Mr. Earman's father-in-law, Robert Van Lear, had financial problems due to debts and unpaid county taxes, and he wanted to transfer ownership of his land to his children. Many of the letters in...

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20. HRHS-217 - Pankey Business Ledgers

    BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Homer Cook Pankey, known as Cook, and his brothers, Horace Edwin Pankey, and Jesse Winston Pankey entered into three Harrisonburg business ventures: livery stable with blacksmith shop, ice and coal delivery, and a grocery/millinery store. Cook built a livery stable in Harrisonburg around 1881 and in 1889 he purchased the Warren Livery Stables on Water Street. His new livery was touted as "a livery establishment which w...

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