Rockbridge County: The Michael Miley Collection (Images of America) - Softcover

Straw, Richard A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1467120197 ISBN 13: 9781467120197

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

Rockbridge County lies at the southern end of the Shenandoah Valley in southwestern Virginia. After the Civil War, renowned photographer Michael Miley took up residence in Lexington, where he established a studio and created a one-of-a-kind photographic archive with over 7,000 photographs spanning nearly 70 years. In 1866, Robert E. Lee was invited to come to Lexington to be president of small Washington College. Miley photographed Lee extensively, along with the townspeople of Lexington and Rockbridge County, students and faculty of Washington and Lee, unusual characters who seem to abound in the area as well as gorgeous landscapes of the mountains and rivers of the region. Rockbridge County: The Michael Miley Collection shares photographs of life in this rural landscape during the last third of the 19th century. It affords the modern reader with a remarkable view into a sometimes familiar but often foreign past.

About this title

About the Author:

Richard A. Straw is a historian at Radford University where he teaches courses on Appalachian, Southern, and public history. He is the author of two other books in the Images of America series, Blacksburg and Athens. All of the photographs in this book are from the Michael Miley Collection at Washington and Lee University and are used with their generous permission.

About this edition

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1467120197
• ISBN 13: 9781467120197
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128