Old pictures of West Lexington

1845

Robert E. Lee, around age 38, and his son William Henry Fitzhugh Lee

1869

General Lee and his Confederate officers in their first meeting

c. 1920

First house

c. 1943

MAIN ST.

1941

Homestead School

1960

Kennedy in a door-to-door campaign

1965

Wolf Creek at the town park

1935

Post Office

1960

John F. Kennedy campaigning door-to-door

1938

Coal miner and wife and children.

1938

Kids from West Virginia

1900

A family at their cabin home

c. 1897

Female telephone or telegraph operator

1910

Mountain Inn Hotel

c. 1895

Hawks Nest ROAD

1958

Main Street

1940

An outdoor picnic

1939

Mrs. Rosa

1939

watermelon on a hot summer day

1939

Country store

1939

Daughter of a sharecroppers in 1939 Person County at a country store

1866

Wilderness battlefield.

1913

Special tactile tours

c. 1941

PARADE

1863

A newspaper vendor at a Union camp

1862

Thaddeus S. Lowe observing the battle from his balloon "Intrepid".

1903

The Wreck of Old 97

1890

Unveiling of the Equestrian Statue of Robert E. Lee

1930

Agecroft Hall

1938

Brand new car

1865

A group of Contrabands at Haxall’s Mill

1862

Va. Street in front of courthouse

1863

Confederate Dead behind the Stone Wall at Marye's Height's

1864

Future President Commanding General Ulysses S. Grant at the Battle of Cold Harbor

1863

Mail wagon for headquarters, Army of the Potomac,

1863

Lord (William) Abinger and a group of officers

1863

A muss at headquarters

1942

DOWNTOWN

1865

Field workshop in the Ninth Army Corps.

c. 1910

University of North Carolina

1864

A captured Confederate encampment