Lynn Rainville: 3 books
Hidden History
African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
In Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information crucial to the stories of the black families who lived and worked there for over two hundred years. The subjects of Rainville’s research are not statesmen or plantation...
by Lynn Rainville, Lisa N. Johnston
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
On October 29, 1900, Indiana Fletcher Williams died, leaving her 8,000-acre plantation estate and almost $1 million to create the Sweet Briar Institute. Later renamed Sweet Briar College, it was founded by Williams to honor her daughter, Maria Georgiana "Daisy" Williams, who died tragically in 1884...
Virginia and the Great War
Mobilization, Supply and Combat, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Virginia played an important role during World War I, supplying the Allied forces with food, horses and steel in 1915 and 1916. After America entered the war in 1917, Virginians served in numerous military and civilian roles—Red Cross nurses, sailors, shipbuilders, pilots, stenographers and domestic...