Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

See the University of Virginia Library’s use policy.

Preferred Citation

George W. Palmore Papers, Accession 38-55, Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library

Acquisition Information

These papers were given to the Library on January 9, l933 by Joseph W. Hazelgrove of Farmville, Virginia.

Funding Note

Funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Scope and Content

These papers consist of business and legal papers of George W. Palmore of Cumberland County, Virginia , 1858-1896 and n.d., and contain ca. 1500 items (3 Holl. boxes, 1.5 linear feet). The business papers include accounts, business correspondence, promissory notes, and applications for merchant's licenses.

Many items pertain to his work as postmaster for Stony Point Mills, Cumberland County (ca. 1876-1881); as general state agent for "Cutter" Whiskey, manufactured by C.P. Moorman & Company of Louisville, Kentucky (ca.1888-1893); and as the Richmond agent for Steinhardt Brothers Importers & Company of New York (ca.1894-1896).

Items of interest among the business and legal papers include: the will of George William Palmore (November 7, 1863); a partial copy of the will of John R. Palmore (n.d.); G. W. Palmore 's postmaster commission (May 26, 1876); a discussion of the differences in the manufacture of whiskey in the state of Kentucky (July 12, 1888); and a map of the townsite property of the Farmville Coal and Iron Company (1891).

Other items in the collection include: three bound volumes (1890-1895), the journal and bank books of George W. Palmore ; a memoriam for Dr. Charles R. Palmore (1882) and a Judge Dabney of Powhatan County (n.d.); and registration lists for "colored" and white voters of Madison township (May 3-10, 1870).