These articles have been featured in the Chatham Star-Tribune newspaper in a weekly column titled “Heritage Highlights” by Kyle Griffith.
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Lane Chests Smokestack Turns 100
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The Kitchen Yard
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A Patriot from Peytonsburg: J.M. Williams
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The Sinking Culture at Tangier Island
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Old Time Schoolmaster Joseph P. Godfrey
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Along the Banister: Cedar Hill Vicinity
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Dating 1800s Photographs Accurately
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The Eve of Revolution in December 1775
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A Christmas Tree for Cats
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Victorian Christmas Trees Described
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Dues of old Danville Fraternities
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Whitmell School 1921 Agricola
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Concord Community Before the Highway
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Chatham’s Dearing Studio
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What Bricks Can Tell
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Through the Bull’s Eyes on Danville’s Floyd Street
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Haints and Spells on All Hallows’ Eve
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Tracing the Tunstall Family Tree
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Tavern on the Stinking River
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Chatham’s Workmen of 1860
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Greenfield School in 1850
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Riceville – Roadside History
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Java to Elkhorn – Roadside History
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Chestnut Level to Shockoe – Roadside History
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Local Schools Surveyed 100 Years Ago
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The Original Whitehead’s Store
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Obscure Pittsylvania County History Books
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1920s Tobacco Growers Cooperative Association
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John Lawson’s 1701 Carolina Expedition
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From Dan to Wachovia – 1791 Journal of W.L. Smith (Part 2)
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1791 Journal of W.L. Smith (Part 1)
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Young Royal Gift, the Fine Mule Getter
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Old Welsh Virginians, a Quiet Legacy
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Markham: Footprints of Founding Families
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Clement Pigg’s 1849 Estate Survey
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“Of the Natives” – John Banister’s Travels
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C.A. Pritchett’s Store in Whitmell
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One Night’s Lodging – 1836 Inventory of Samuel Yates
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J.W. Hearp Sr. – Dry Fork’s Jack-of-All-Trades
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Earliest Postmistresses in Pittsylvania
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Naturalist John Banister: Tobacco in the 1600s
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Homes that Remember: An Ode to Country Charm
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The Pitt Family and the Earl of Chatham
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Manakin Towne: French Settlement on the James
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Danville in 1892: Bygone Businesses
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Galveston Mill in the Nineteenth Century
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Granny’s Smokehouse: The Days Before Refrigeration
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Ode to the Rivers of Pittsylvania
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The Little Mercantile Company and Dry Fork Merchants
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How County Seats Shaped Communities
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Ward’s Legacy of the Sulfur Springs
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The Bryant Brothers, Old Country Merchants
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Chatham’s Posted Notices from the 1800s
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1881 Business Directory for Pittsylvania County
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Pleasant Gap, Land of the Waltons
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The Lost Community of Cartersburg
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General Cabell, Danville’s Descendant of Pocahontas
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Early Settlers of Chatham – the Watson Family
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Guests of the Old Carter’s Hotel
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Interview with Rev. W. T. Stowe of Dry Fork, 1940
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The Julian and Gregorian Calendars
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Poplar Foot Jones, The Patriot Physician
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Winstead the Mailman
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Pittsylvania History in the Virginia Gazette
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1796 Estate Inventory of John Pannill
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Intro to Hairston Family Plantations
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Early Virginia Tobacco Pipes
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Sawmilling Tales at Saunders Lumber Co.
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Early German Settlers in Pittsylvania County
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Dr. J. C. Anderson of Minneola
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Farm Journal of J. M. Woodson – Part Two (1919-1920)
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Ragland’s Historic Tobacco Seed Farm
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Namesake of Blairs, Virginia
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Changes in Home Convenience Post-WWII
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Danville Photographers in the 1800s
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Telling Time in the Past
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Postmasters of Bachelor’s Hall
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Country Store of Oscar Meadows
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Wild Fruits of the Old Dominion
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The Role of Country Blacksmiths
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Save the Old Burial Grounds
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Unsmiling Faces in Old Photography
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Growth of Acree & Banner Tobacco Warehouses
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Cousins of Thomas Jefferson in Pittsylvania
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Sharecropper Sam Harrison Explains Tobacco
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Folk Houses in Southern Virginia
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Legacy of Museville and Pullen’s Store
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Main Street Chatham, 1896
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Dr. J. D. Estes of Cascade Village
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The Old Wilmer Community
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“Sheriff” of Dry Fork
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Shopping in Danville a Century Ago
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Mapping Pittsylvania County in 1837
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Danville & Chatham Telephone Directory, 1945-1946
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The Realities of Tavern Keeping
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James River Exports Before the Revolution
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Promoting History Through Model Making
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Farm Journal of J. M. Woodson – Part One (1917-1918)
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The Whitmell Community in 1850
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1813 Clerk’s Office