The historical journal of the Augusta County Historical Society, Augusta Historical Bulletin, has been published continuously since 1964. From the first issue until 1999, the journal was published semi-annually, in the spring and the fall. Beginning in 2000, the society has gone to a larger, annual publication that is perfect bound, meaning it has a spine. The Bulletin ranges in length from 125-200 pages depending upon the number of manuscripts and illustrations which have been submitted. Bulletin editors are Nancy Sorrells and Katharine Brown (klbrown@cfw.com). To make an inquiry regarding a potential submission, contact either editor by email. To receive a copy of the Bulletin style sheet, contact the ACHS office manager, P.O. Box 686, Staunton, VA 24402 or augustachs@ntelos.net.
Our Bulletins
2004 Bulletin 1. “The Augusta County Historical Society: A brief history of its first forty years,” by Joseph B. Yount III 2. “Human rights pioneer William Sheppard: An African-American from Augusta County,” by William E. Phipps 3. “The Howardsville Turnpike,” by Robert P. Kyle 4. “The spiritual journal of William Campbell, 1786, “ transcription and introduction by the Rev. James A. Campbell 5. “Henry Miller lived eight years with me in my father’s house”
Henry Miller, Daniel Boone, and the Draper Manuscripts, by Diana Lehman and Bob Stewart6. “The Corps of Discovery’s Augusta County Blacksmiths,” by Chris Furr 7. “Documents from the David L. Cash collection,” transcribed by John Heatwole 8. “An unknown white waif,” by Pastor Jo Ann Snapp Leifeste 9. “Death Notices from the Staunton Spectator 1885,” compiled by Anne C. Kidd 2003 Bulletin 1. “Staunton and the Confederate Defense of Richmond in the Spring of 1862,” by William J. Miller 2. “John Craig: Augusta’s Frontier Minister,” by Katharine L. Brown 3. “Abstracted ‘Mc’ Surnames from Augusta County Will Book No. 1,” compiled by Jane Jordan Sherman 4. “Marines in the Valley, 1923,” by Richard M. Hamrick, Jr. 5. “Augusta County’s Historic Bridges,” by Ann B. Miller and Bill Bushman 6. “The Forgotten Natural Disasters of Staunton and Augusta County,” by Alex Davis 7. “Looking Back – A History of a spring: Mount Solon’s Blue Hole,” by Laura Ragland 8. “Rockingham’s Blue Hole,” by Elizabeth Payne 9. “All of ‘em had to be belled”: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of cattle drives and grazing in western Virginia,” by Nancy Sorrells 10. “Early family life in the Valley: Archaeology at an eighteenth- and nineteenth-century farmstead in the Shenandoah Valley,” by Thomas F. Higgins, III 11. “Reminiscences of two Augusta Mills 12. “Death Notices from the Staunton Spectator 1884,” compiled by Anne C. Kidd
