Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

Buckingham County (Va. Teacher's Daily Registers, 1886-1895. Local government records collection, Buckingham County Records. The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia 23219.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Edgar MacDonald, 14 October 2009. Accession numbers 44573, 44574.

Historical Information

Buckingham County was named for either the English county or for the duke of Buckingham. Some sources say that the county's namesake is Archibald Cary's tract of land called Buckingham, on what was then Willis's Creek. It was formed from Albemarle County in 1761.

Records were destroyed by fire in 1869.

Scope and Content

Buckingham County (Va.) Teacher's Daily Registers, 1886-1895, are two volumes from Slate River school district, white schools numbers 7 and 10, recording student names, attendance, and grades. The white school number 7 volume is dated 1886-1895 and the white school number 10 volume is dated 1888-1895. The volumes were records of achievement and attendance, and listed the names of students; their sex, age, and grade; and included the teacher's term report (listing days taught, enrollment, attendance, and other statistical information). Descriptions of the school buildings and lists of the textbooks used were also recorded. The one-room Buckingham County schoolhouse was heated by a stove in 1895, and nineteen students shared seven Webster's dictionaries and one Virginia history textbook.

Related Material

See the Lost Records Localities Digital Collection available at Virginia Memory.

For more information and a listing of lost records localities see Lost Records research note .

Index Terms

Corporate Names:

• Buckingham County (Va.)

Subjects:

• Schools -- Records and correspondence -- Virginia -- Buckingham County.

Geographical Names:

• Buckingham County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century.

Genre and Form Terms:

• Local government records -- Virginia -- Buckingham County.
• School records -- Virginia -- Buckingham County.

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