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The Pittsylvania Packet is the quarterly journal of the Pittsylvania Historical Society, Pittsylvania County, Virginia. (See subscription information.)

The Rev. Sam Stone and a Native American fish weir on the Banister River. Pittsylvania Packet articles cover all periods of local history.

Articles by Frances Hallam Hurt

• Chatham's Wild Oats, Also Corn, Rye and Ten Barrooms
• Ladies of the DAR
• Original Website: the Family Bible

Articles by Herman Melton

• Antebellum Tragedy on the Old Richmond and Danville Railroad
• Canada House Floor Plan Sketches
• Censuses Over Years Trace Industries in Pittsylvania
• Chatham Post Office Mural Depicts Southern Harvest
• Chatham: Virginia's Capital for a Day
• Civil War Cannons Believed To Have Been Forged In Pittsylvania
• Clyde East Saluted as Decorated Veteran
• David Ross: Pittsylvania's Unsung Hero of the Revolution
• Franklin Turnpike, The
• Genealogical Treasures at the Pittsylvania County Clerk's Office
• Genealogical Resources at the Pittsylvania County Library
• Giles Mill: Mecca of the Frying Pan
• Hard Choices on the Home Front: Pittsylvania's Care for Indigent Families of Civil War Soldiers
• Little Known Story of the S.S. Rachel Jackson U.S.M.S.
• Mill on the Great Rock: Henry's Mill, Once Owned By Patrick Henry's Cousin
• Monroe, The Forgotten Town of
• Moses Mill: Pittsylvania County's Second Largest in the 1880's
• Murder on the Rocks: The Legend of Pittsylvania's Unfinished Millstone
• On the Death of Charles Lynch III
• Pittsylvania County Courthouse: National Historic Landmark
• Pittsylvania County's Civil War Gun Factory
• Pittsylvania County's Puzzling Post Offices
• Pittsylvania Minerals: the Jed Hotchkiss Connection
• Pittsylvania's Missing Confederate Cannons
• Pittsylvania's Puzzling Confederate Supply Problem: Were the Chatham Greys Ill-Equipped or Ill-Treated?
• Revolution That Failed, A: Secession in Pittsylvania County
• Samuel Harris Fall Creek Estate in 1800, The
• Sergeant's Tomahawk Mill, The
• Then and Now: Pittsylvania's Turn of the Century Presidential Elections Compared
• To Approve or Reject the U.S. Constitution in 1788
• Ups and Downs of the Sandy Level Post Office
• USS Swanson: An Essential Ship Named for an Essential Man
• Watson Memorial Methodist is Chatham's Oldest Church
• “We the Delegates…”: Pittsylvania's Delegates to Virginia's Constitutional Ratification Convention June 2-27, 1788
• Willow Del Commissary: Pittsylvania's Secret Confederate Supply Base

Articles by Herman Melton and Henry H. Mitchell

• Genealogical Treasures at the Pittsylvania County Clerk's Office

Articles by Herman Melton, Henry H. Mitchell, and Sarah E. Mitchell

• Genealogical Resources at the Pittsylvania County Library

Articles by Henry H. Mitchell

• A History of the Pittsylvania Historical Society
• Claude A. Swanson of Pittsylvania
• Rediscovering Pittsylvania's "Missing" Native Americans
• Pittsylvania to California: A Short Walk?
• Whispers of the 1700's in Central Pittsylvania County
• Reminders of Early Chatham: A Self-Guided Tour around Chatham, Virginia
• Chester Station Canister Shot "Lands" in Society Museum Display
• Pittsylvanians Play Key Roles In Three Great Battles
• Whittle and Drewry Histories Contributed
• Capt. John Dooley Documents Pittsylvania/Danville During Surrender Week 1865
• Markers and Portrait Local Reminders of Rachel Donelson Jackson
• John Weatherford Remembered as Unstoppable Dissenting Preacher
• Furguson Papers At UNC Contain Chatham Greys Roll Book
• Col. William Byrd's Observations 1728-33: A Self-Guided Tour Of Pittsylvania County's Southern Border

Articles by Patricia B. Mitchell

• Southern Picnics and Suppers
• The African Influence on Southern Cuisine
• Making Bread in Early America
• Dolley Payne Madison: A Belle of a Washington Hostess
• Letter by Jefferson Davis' Widow Poses Real Mystery
• Fabled Hospitality, Old Southern Style
• No Words Can Really Describe Christmas
• Native American Maize
• Vineyard Efforts in Pittsylvania Date Back to 1869
• Lucy Breckenridge: "I Want to Go to Pittsylvania"
• "Truly Horrible" Danville Civil War Prisons
• Union Soldiers Recall Pittsylvania and Danville
• Eldon Through the Eyes of Elizabeth Swanson
• The Social Life of Lizzie Swanson
• Miss Maud's Marriage
• Letter Gives Details of 1902 Chatham Wedding
• Baily Cunningham: A Former Slave Remembers
• Housekeeping in Old Pittsylvania
• The Chatham Fire of 1902 and the Birth of Langhorne Jones

Articles by Sarah E. Mitchell

• Do You Happen To Know The Meaning Of Your First Name?
• Unusual Names Are Often Found In Public Records

Articles by David L. Mitchell, Henry H. Mitchell, Jonathan C. Mitchell, Patricia B. Mitchell, and Sarah E. Mitchell

• Bricks & Clicks: An Architectural Guide to Early Chatham

Articles by Preston Moses

• How Tightsqueeze, Virginia, Really Got Its Name

Miscellaneous Articles

• Man of Her Dreams

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