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Preferred Citation

Preferred citation: [Identification of item], McCown Family Papers, WLU Coll. 0181, Special Collections, Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA.

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Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Mrs. Pollard Woodward.

Processing Information

Blue sheet prepared by Susan L. Gates (2/8/89)

Biographical / Historical

The McCown family has lived in Rockbridge County, Virginia from ca. 1740 to the present.

Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of business papers of the family including sale lists, indentures, land surveys, deeds, wills, promissory notes, and numerous receipts. It also includes 71 photographs from the collection of Samuel W. McCown, Jr. (WLU 1919).

Also incuded is a verse in remembrance of visit to Black Wall Cave, January 30, 1914, by H. M. Vest, which makes reference to several Rockbridge County, Virginia boys.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Black Wall Cave (Rockbridge County, Virginia)
• Buildings
• College Students
• Deeds
• Hall, Lorenza
• Hall, Willie
• Hart, Harvey
• Indentures
• Lackey, Harry
• Lackey, Issac
• Land use surveys
• McCown, Samuel W., Jr.
• Muterspaw, Amos
• Photographs
• Receipts (Acknowledgments)
• Vest, Herbert
• Virginia -- Rockbridge County
• Wilhelm, Herb
• Wills
• Wilson, Alex
• Woodward, Pollard, Mrs.