Belmont http://www.mwc.edu/belm
Visit this site to learn about Belmont, the estate of the early 20th century painter Gari Melchers and his wife, Corinne.
Churches around the Fredericksburg Area http://www.simplyfredericksburg.com/visit/church/church.shtml
This site has brief information about local historic churches.
The Civil War in Fredericksburg: A Synopsis
Civil War: Series of Articles on the Battle of Fredericksburg
Civil
War Timeline http://www.historyplace.com/civilwar/index.html
Fredericksburg Area Anniversaries
Fredericksburg Area Historic Resources http://www.historypoint.org
Fredericksburg Area War Dead List
Fredericksburg Newspaper Indexes http://departments.mwc.edu/hipr/www/fredburg.htm
Kenmore, Ferry
Farm and Other Fredericksburg Links http://www.kenmore.org/links.html
HISTORY - NATIONAL
History
Day by Day http://www.historychannel.com/thisday
History Day by Day http://www.scopesys.com/today
History Links in the Librarians'
Index to the Internet http://lii.org
Perpetual Calendar http://www.earth.com/calendar
AND CHECK THIS OUT:
RELIGION
The
Bible Browser http://bible.gospelcom.net
AND CHECK THIS OUT:
Last modified April 15, 2004
A summary of major action in the Fredericksburg area, written by reporters with The Free Lance-Star. font>
Civil War historian Donald Pfanz wrote this informative
series of columns, "Behind the Lines," about the 1862 Battle of Fredericksburg.
The History Place site has a concise listing of the major
battles from 1861 to 1865.
Local historic events organized in Excel format by
the staff of the Free Lance-Star library.
The Central Rappahannock Regional Library’s Web site has articles on the area.
The CRRL also has maps, obituary indexes and Census indexes online. If you visit their Virginiana Room in person, you'll find Census indexes back to 1790, city directories, local newspaper indexes and back issues of local papers on microfilm. Call the library if you’re trying to track the history of a Fredericksburg building; they keep building information in order by address in their "lot history" files.
The phone number is 540/372-1144.
The names of local citizens who died in 20th and 21st-century wars, collected from various sources by The Free Lance-Star. It's in an Excel spreadsheet and may be slow to load.
This Web site is a gold mine for Fredericksburg researchers.
An index of local newspapers from 1787 to 1929 has been put online by the
Historic Preservation Department of Mary Washington College. There
are also maps and a smattering of historic business and census data.
There are plenty of local history links on Kenmore's
site.
Decades
Sites http://www.aclibrary.org/teenroom/decades.asp
Want to find major events of the 50s? Top hits
in the 70s? Try this compilation of 20th century history links.
The History Channel site summarizes historic events by day, as well as birthdays
and radio hits.
Want to know what famous events happened today or any
other day of the year? Scope Systems makes it easy to plug in a date
and find out.
One of these librarian-vetted Web sites might be your
missing link to the past.
Want to know what day of the week Halloween fell on in
1968? Try this web site. You can also find this information in print
in "The World Almanac."
See the Population portion of this Web site for historic
statistics.
Beliefnet
http://www.beliefnet.com
Set up by two journalists, Beliefnet has news stories,
columns, Web links and statistics for many religions. A good place
to find background information about a faith.
The Web offers a speedy way to find out where in the
Bible a term like "forgiveness" appears.
"THE YEARBOOK OF AMERICAN AND CANADIAN CHURCHES," a reference
book at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library, has statistics on how
many people are believed to practice various faiths in the U.S. and Canada.
The call number is Ref 280.05 Ye.
