This presentation will explore the origins and development of Bassett, Virginia, from its rural agricultural beginnings through the establishment of the Bassett Furniture Company and the growth of the town that emerged around it. Through historic photographs, maps, and local stories, we will examine the people, industries, and events that transformed a small Appalachian farming […]

Violence and lawlessness plagued late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Virginia, and with no bureau of investigation or state police force, the Old Dominion relied on the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to solve a multitude of crimes. Formed by William G. Baldwin and Thomas L. Felts, the agency, headquartered in Roanoke, was charged with investigating some of the […]

Violence and lawlessness plagued late nineteenth-and early twentieth-century Virginia, and with no bureau of investigation or state police force, the Old Dominion relied on the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency to solve a multitude of crimes. Formed by William G. Baldwin and Thomas L. Felts, the agency, headquartered in Roanoke, was charged with investigating some of the […]

Raised from the farms, villages, and crossroads of Henry County, Virginia, Company H, known as the Henry Guard, answered the call to arms in 1861 and became part of the 24th Virginia Infantry. Throughout four years of war, these local soldiers marched across some of the Civil War's most famous battlefields, including First Manassas, Williamsburg, […]