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The Packet 2005-2006

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  • Our Administration

  • The President's Report

  • Red Dot Means Renew

  • Note from the Editor

  • Spring Bus Tour: April 9th

  • Veterans Memorial Wall and Walkway

  • Free Danville Genealogy Seminar: May 7th

  • Second Heritage Book in the Works

  • Group Formed to Preserve Harvey School

  • Deadline for Submissions

  • From Slave to Landowner: The Story of Ellen J. Miller

  • Diphtheria and Pittsylvania County

  • Feedsack Dresses

  • Chatham Hall’s Movie Star Margaret Sullavan

  • Punishing A Profiteer in Pittsylvania

  • Chatham’s Papers & Population in 1876

  • Pittsylvania Historical Society Publications

  • Membership Information.

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  • Our Administration

  • Announcement Concerning the Melton Historical Fund

  • Summer Picnic: July 18th

  • Saunders’ Family Reunion: July 30th

  • Vendors Needed for October 1st Callands Festival

  • Deadline for Submissions

  • Historical Society Receives Grant

  • July 4th 1860 in Chatham

  • Hobo Lot

  • The Old Whitefall House

  • Queries: Banister River Baptist Church; Atkins/Adkins Family; Williams, Motley, Gravely, and Gordon Families

  • Pittsylvania Historical Society Publications

  • Membership Information

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  • Our Administration

  • Bus Tour: September 10th

  • Special PHS Membership Meeting: September 19th

  • Regular PHS Membership Meeting: October 17th

  • Deadline for Submissions 

  • Callands Festival: October 1 

  • Callands Festival to be Held for the 25th Year

  • Gasoline and Other Prices of 1916 in Pittsylvania County

  • Discovery at Beavers’ Mill 

  • A Vignette on John William Compton, Civil War Soldier

  • Publications For Sale

  • Membership Information

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  • Our Administration

  • President's Report

  • Blue Means Do NOT Renew

  • PHS Membership Meeting: January 16th

  • Encampment at the Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History: March 4, 2006

  • Deadline for Submissions

  • Bus Tour Provided Glimpse of County’s Past 

  • A Bit of Pittsylvania Poetry

  • Have You Worn A Chicken Lately?

  • The Last Five Hangings in Pittsylvania County

  • Abraham Chaney and his Revolutionary War Service

  • The Double Payne Wedding on New Year’s Eve, 1904

  • Competition’s Name Change to Chatham

  • A True Story

  • Genealogy Queries

  • Publications, Etc. for Sale

  • Membership Information

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  • Our Administration

  • If Blue Dot on Label, Please Renew

  • PHS Membership Meeting: April 17th

  • PittsylvaniaHistoricalSociety.org launched

  • Deadline for Submissions

  • Update on the Southern Railway Depot Restoration

  • Our Covered Bridge

  • The Stewart Family of Pittsylvania, Amelia, Henrico, and other Counties

  • Third Lieutenant Dryden Wright, Pigg River Invincibles, Co. C2, 46th Virginia Infantry: Letters to Home — September 1863 to April 1864 (Part I)

  • Baptist Church’s Fundraising in 1869

  • Spring Garden in 1835

  • Research Queries

  • Publications, Etc. for Sale

  • Membership Information

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  • Our Administration

  • Bus Tour and Luncheon: July 8th

  • Virginia Historical Society opens Exhibit featuring Pittsylvania County Water Wheel: July 22nd

  • Deadline for Submissions

  • Picture from the Past: Car on Main Street in Chatham (circa 1920)

  • Memorial Day Ceremony at 1813 Clerk’s Office

  • Third Lieutenant Dryden Wright, Pigg River Invincibles, Co. C2, 46th Virginia Infantry: Letters to Home—September 1863 to April 1864 (Part II)

  • Queries: Hatchett family

  • Publications, Etc. for Sale.

  • Membership Information

CONTACT US

Email: pittsylvaniahistoricalsociety@gmail.com 

Mail: Pittsylvania Historical Society

P.O. Box 1186, Chatham VA 24531

HOURS OF OPERATION

The Pittsylvania Historical Society is open by appointment or on special museum "open days". Please email to set up a time to visit. 

ADDRESS

330 Whitehead St. 

Chatham

VA 24531

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