The latest images from the Augusta County Chancery Causes digitization
project are now available on the Chancery Records Index
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res> . With this
addition, fifty boxes of Augusta County chancery covering the time
period from 1879 through 1895 may be viewed online.

Following are a few suits of interest found in this latest addition.
Augusta County Chancery Cause 1880-119
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1880-119>
is a contract dispute that centered on the construction of an addition
to Wesleyan Female Institute in Staunton. The case includes numerous
exhibits such as the 1877-1878 school bulletin (image# 134-159),
receipts for building materials (image# 195, 200) and two drawings of
the addition (image# 213, 215). Augusta County Chancery Causes 1884-057
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1884-057>
and 1895-023
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1895-023>
are property disputes in which the plaintiffs accuse the defendants of
doing harm to the value of their property. In the first suit, the
plaintiff argues that heat and fumes from the defendant's brick kiln
adversely affected the value of his property (image# 41). In the second
suit, the defendant built a slaughterhouse and stockyard near the
plaintiff's house (image# 491) polluting a stream and causing
insufferable smells and noises all of which depreciated the value of the
plaintiff's property. 

Most notably, this portion of the Augusta County Chancery Causes
includes suits that have their origins in the real estate boom and bust
period of 1890s western Virginia. Many of the suits contain plats of
subdivisions and towns (Basic City, for example) that never came to be
or were short-lived. See Augusta County Chancery Causes 1893-030
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1893-030>
(image# 103-104, 106), 1893-120
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1893-120>
(image# 101), 1894-131
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1894-131>
(image #139), and 1894-148
<http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/case_detail.asp?CFN=015-1894-148>
(image# 44).

This scanning project is funded by the Circuit Court Records
Preservation Program <http://www.lva.virginia.gov/agencies/ccrp/>  and a
$150,000 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records
Commission <http://www.archives.gov/nhprc/>  (NHPRC).

Happy researching!

 

Vincent T. Brooks

Senior Local Records Archivist

The Library of Virginia: Archives of the Commonwealth

800 E. Broad St.

Richmond, VA  23219

804/225-4452 (voice)

804/692-2277 (fax)

Website: http://www.lva.virginia.gov
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