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Paris; Paris is noted as the prime meridian on this map which appeared as No. 158 in Atlas universel..., published between 1797 and 1801 by Edme Mentelle and Pierre Gregorie Chanlaire. It shows the area from New Jersey to Georgia. Mountains in the…

Paris, ca. 1780; Showing the area from Virginia's Rappahannock River through Georgia, this map indicates larger towns by symbols colored in red. Bonne was a mathematician and cartographer and successor to Jacques Nicolas Bellin as hydrographer at the…

Paris; Based on the 1755 Fry-Jefferson map of Virginia, this smaller map was first published in 1757 and until 1799 in the Atlas Universel. This is state 5 in Pedley's bibliography [1793b?]. The cartouche of the first state of the Virginia map was…

Amsterdam; Based on the Thornton and Fisher chart of 1689 and Augustine Herrman's 1673 map of Maryland and Virginia, this map appeared in the volume 3 of Le Neptune Francois. It is oriented with north to the right. Focused on the Chesapeake Bay, the…

"Born March 25th 1832. Died December 18th 1917" Class of 1858 from Appomattox, VA

"Picture taken 1859. (NOT one who killed Lours Eppes in Cushing)" Class of 1858, from Appomattox, VA. Born March 25th 1832. Died December 18th 1917.

Born in Richmond, VA on Jan. 20, 1920. Died in Germany in 1944.

Class of 1973. Assistant vice president; Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.

"Class of 1835. Born Hanover Co., VA March 21, 1812. Died in Indian territory in 1895. Missionary to Indians."

Homecoming speaker 1937

Class of 1968

Letter to Thomas F. Venable when he was a student at the University of Virginia, dated December 25, 1830. Written by his mother.

The Hampden-Sydney Tiger is a student newspaper serving the community of Hampden-Sydney and operating independently of the College. The Tiger is printed, roughly, bi-monthly by the Farmville Herald and Farmville Printing. Items represented here are…