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| Author | : Kathi Ann Brown |
| Publisher | : George Mason University Press |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : History |
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Beginning with the early interactions between Native Americans and European explorers and settlers, this history traces three and a half centuries of change in Fauquier County, Virginia. Commissioned by the Fauquier Historical Society to commemorate the county's 250th anniversary, this engrossing narrative tells the story of the men and women, black and white, who built the region's farms, plantations, schools, and churches. Individual biographies are interwoven with a social, political, and military history of the American Revolution and Civil War, allowing crucial events in the county's history to come alive. This book also explores Fauquier's depressed economy after the Civil War and shows how the area's location and natural beauty drew wealthy outsiders to purchase estates in the early part of the twentieth century. After midcentury, the enormous expansion of the Washington suburbs ignited a heated and ongoing debate over the county's position on growth and development. Related here is the fascinating story of a historically significant county. The volume has more than two hundred illustrations, some displaying the county's stunning beauty, which enhance the book throughout.
| Author | : Donna Tyler Hollie |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780738567570 |
Fauquier County, in Northern Virginia, was established in 1759. It was formed from Prince William County and was named for Virginia lieutenant governor Francis Fauquier. In 1790, there were 6,642 slaves in Fauquier County. By the eve of the Civil War, there were 10,455. From 1817 to 1865, the county was home to 845 free black people. The African American population declined at the end of Reconstruction, and by 1910, the white population was double that of blacks. The population imbalance continues today. Through centuries of slavery and segregation, Fauquier County's African American population survived, excelled, and prospered. This minority community established and supported numerous churches, schools, and businesses, as well as literary, political, and fraternal organizations that enhanced the quality of life for the entire county.
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| Total Pages | : 264 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : History |
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Covers the first six deed books, including deeds, leases, bonds, sale contracts, commissions, mortgages, agreements, etc. Each abstract gives the grantor(s) and grantee(s) as well as other individuals mentioned, including slaves and spouses.
| Author | : Joe DiPietro |
| Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780822221975 |
THE STORY: In a remote estate in the countryside of Connecticut, Jack Brooks, one of the most accomplished and eccentric painters of his generation, awaits the imminent arrival of his art dealer. But the visit is not a standard one, for Jack feels
| Author | : William Fletcher Boogher |
| Publisher | : Washington, D.C., The Saxton printing Company |
| Total Pages | : 230 |
| Release | : 1899 |
| Genre | : Registers of births, etc.--Virginia Overwharton parish |
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| Author | : Thomas Triplett Russell |
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2009-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781888265606 |
The Revolution as seen through the eyes of individual soldiers, with essential biographical information. R0060HB - $37.00
| Author | : Ida Powell Dulany |
| Publisher | : Univ. of Tennessee Press |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1572336587 |
The Piedmont area of Loudoun and Fauquier Counties, Virginia, near the Maryland border, was hotly contested throughout the Civil War. The mistress of a slave-holding estate, Ida Powell Dulany took over control of the extensive family lands once her husband left to fight for the Confederacy. She struggled to manage slaves, maintain contact with her neighbors, and keep up her morale after her region was abandoned by the Confederate government soon after the beginning of hostilities.
| Author | : Brian J. Daugherity |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 392 |
| Release | : 2019-05-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 081394273X |
In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1951, a student strike for better school facilities became part of the NAACP legal campaign for school desegregation. That step ultimately brought this rural, agricultural county to the Supreme Court of the United States as one of five consolidated cases in the historic 1954 ruling, Brown v. Board of Education. Unique among those cases, Prince Edward County took the extreme stance of closing its public school system entirely rather than comply with the desegregation ruling of the Court. The schools were closed for five years, from 1959 to 1964, until the Supreme Court ruling in Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County ordered the restoration of public education in the county. This historical anthology brings together court cases, government documents, personal and scholarly writings, speeches, and journalism to represent the diverse voices and viewpoints of the battle in Prince Edward County for—and against—educational equality. Providing historical context and contemporary analysis, this book offers a new perspective of a largely overlooked episode and seeks to help place the struggle for public education in Prince Edward County into its proper place in the civil rights era.
| Author | : Michael Frayn |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2021-01-14 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1350184861 |
“As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.” The Guardian A play-within-a-play following a touring theatre company who are rehearsing and performing a comedy called Nothing On, results in a riotous double-bill of comedic craft and dramatic skill. Hurtling along at breakneck speed it shows the backstage antics as they stumble through the dress-rehearsal at Weston-super-Mare, then on to a disastrous matinee at Ashton-under-Lyne, followed by a total meltdown in Stockton-on-Tees. Michael Frayn's irresistible, multi-award-winning backstage farce has been enjoyed by millions of people worldwide since it premiered in 1982 and has been hailed as one of the greatest British comedies ever written. Winner of both Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Comedy. This edition features a new introduction by Michael Blakemore.
| Author | : John Kenneth Gott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 96 |
| Release | : 2012-09-01 |
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| ISBN | : 9781258474799 |
