Restrictions to Access

No restrictions. Open for research.

Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Rangeley Family Papers #4625, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift of Ginger Travis of Hillsborough, N.C., in July 1992 (Acc. 92112)

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: Roslyn Holdzkom, July 1992

Encoded by: ByteManagers Inc., 2008

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Account books.
• Almshouses--Virginia--History--20th century.
• Farm life--Virginia--History--20th century.
• General stores--Virginia--History--19th century.
• General stores--Virginia--History--20th century.
• Henry County (Va.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Henry County (Va.)--Commerce--History--20th century.
• Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Merchants--Virginia--History--20th century.
• Patrick County (Va.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Rangeley family.
• Rangeley, George C. (George Clanton), 1885-1964.
• Rangeley, James.
• Rangeley, John.
• Rangeley, W. H. (William H.), 1850-1913.
• Sunday schools--Virginia--History--20th century.
• Tanneries--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Commerce--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Commerce--History--20th century.

Chiefly account books recording transactions relating to businesses operated by various members of the Rangeley family of Virginia. Early books, 1823 through the 1860s, pertain to an establishment operated by John Rangeley of Patrick County, Va., which may have been a combination tannery and general store. By the 1850s, account books show John Rangeley operating in Henry County, Va., and in the 1870s the Rangeleys appear to have been operating their tannery and dry goods business under the name Rangeley and Son. Account books relating to W. H. Rangeley's dry goods and produce store in the town of Preston, Henry County, begin in 1885. Also included is a volume which, besides farm accounts, 1922-1923, includes brief diary entries probably written by George C. Rangeley, also of Henry County. There are also the following volumes: Mount Bethel Sunday School record book, 1892-1894; a poorhouse record book, circa 1929, listing paupers of Henry County by race and including brief entries describing the lives and deaths of particular individuals; and "Pioneer Days of Rangeley, Maine," 1949, printed pamphlet about the northern branch of the Rangeley family.

• Volumes SV-4625/2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12, 14, 16, 20