Fairfax Hall Records

480 WFCHS/THL

Inventory created by Archives Staff 02/1986. Last revised 02/2021

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EXTENT: 0.21 linear feet

DATE: 1871-1904

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The Fairfax Hall Records includes catalogues, certificates, commencement, and baccalaureate programs of Fairfax Hall. There are also copies of The Fairfax Review, a publication written by students.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: The Rev. Silas Billings and his daughters, Mary E. and Cornelia F. Billings established Fairfax Hall, a school for girls, in Winchester, VA, in 1869. The school occupied the premises of the former Valley Female Institute (112 S. Cameron St.) until 1902 when it was moved to the Winchester Inn (109 S. Stewart St.). It closed around 1904.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Quarles, Garland R. Winchester, Virginia—Streets—Churches—Schools. Winchester, VA: Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society, 1996.

CITE AS: Fairfax Hall Records, 480 WFCHS/THL, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

ORGANIZATION:

BOX 1

Baccalaureate and commencement invitations and programs, 10 items, printed; 1 envelope, manuscript (includes the following years):

1871                        1885

1876                        1886

1880                        1887

1884                        1888

Catalogs, 8 items, printed (includes the following years):

1877-1878    1890-1891

1880-1881    1893-1894

1884-1885    1898-1899

[c1900] (2 copies)

Certificates and reports (folder contains the following):

Etta Robinson - June 16, 1871; June 23, 1873
Godfrey; Miller - first quarter, 1885, 3 items, manuscript on printed form

Correspondence, November 29, 1874, 1 page, manuscript

The Fairfax Review (written by students), 22 items, printed (folder contains the following):

1881 -- Volume 2, No. 1
1882 -- Volume 2, Nos. 2, 3, 6
1883 -- Volume 3, Nos. 1 (2 copies), 2 (2 copies), 3 (2 copies), 4, 5, 6 (2 copies)
1884 -- Volume 4, No. 1
1885 -- Volume 4, No. 4
1886 -- Volume 5, Nos. 1, 3
1887 -- Volume 6, No. 2
1888 -- Volume 6, No. 3
1889 -- Vacation number (2 copies)

Index to Fairfax Hall students, 1871-1887 (incomplete), from commencement programs, 6 leaves, typescript

Index to Fairfax Hall teachers, 1886-1889 (incomplete), 3 leaves, typescript

News articles, unnumbered, printed/photocopy

Receipts – check and receipt for Hettie Jacob’s tuition and board, August 29, 1882, 2 leaves, printed and manuscript

PHOTOGRAPHS: Photographs and other images belonging to this collection may be accessed online through http://handley.pastperfectonline.com/