Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-01-26

Of The South IN H. ,,,,a -,
.,,, VI .''e
Vi '''ois anu the preservation
OIL historical materials. No part of
the county is so rich I'm history ms
the South yet t;,no wo. vhor ,,.,,o
~, no ,rto.oa,
=" Was taken III IT, ana
Niiuapie corrections OF manuscripts
were sold to private persons for
song.
All thi. =. o,,. ~,
"isen ''V'' w ms
'o'''i'''"' rs ate Dns ines !tfs III
the Southern states. Archivc depart
ments are heinz croate1 ~, bovcI
leen recently created In stare after
state. Nearly two yearc ,ro thc do.
partmont of archives ana history wos
founded I'm the Virginia state lihrary
along with the department of biblloc.
raphy. for the purpose of furtherlur
the knowledge of the history of VIZ.
ginia.
Tho state of Mississippi Is NOT pncu-
linrly rich In history ana bistor,coll
documents, and vet Inc work of AIR.
Dunbar Rowland, the director or rho
Mississippi department of archives
ana history, has brought both fame TO
himself as n scholar and very fat.
tcr.ng recognition of educational pro-
sress for his state Tho Mississippi!
archives department recently issued
an encyclopedia of Mississippi. which
Is monument cf scholarship Tho
history of that state had been poorly
and inaccurately told before. but now
1t is given IN detail and range such
such as few, If any. state histories can
boast. All this was impossible before
the creation Of the Mississippi depart
ment of archives and history. because
the materials for history lay in dus,
~. unca'alogued boxes quite inacccs-
SIDE 10 students
Aml'ima also mas wclEoreanaed
ana valuabie department. OF archives
ana history established III l9Ol. Or.
Ihonas Nj. owen wcil'known schol-
III. was appointed director. The re-
SUIT mas bceh thnt the hitherto ne
siec'cd accommodations oil old papers,
dencminateu by many as so much
wor,hiess trash ana rupbish are now
extremely interesting ana valuable doe
umehts bearing upon the history OF
ALABAMA. The records are accessible
20 students and are being used III his
Tory writing and IN genealogical In
curry.
Alabama was the first state to Gre
ate n separate department for history,
department correlating other state
departments aud presided over by
state officer. That was in 1901 In
1909 the Mississippi department was
founded, and Rowland began his great
work. Since that tins North Caro-
INA south carolina virginia anu
west virginia nave created depart
mehts OF archives and .So'orv III one
FORM or nnoIher, ana Sas histor-
icai soc'e'' mas come INTO 'sshhs'
Or. Sale was given charge of the
South Carolina archives department.
He Is an amc scholar, and the records
of his great state should, in the course
OF II few years. be accessible to the
hundreds oil eager students who now
ransack the country Tor historical ma
teriai. North Carolina recently made
provision FOR an archives department..
The West Virginia department. WAS
created n year or so ago and Virgil
a. Lewis an allie scholar, was made
archivist and historian. MIR. Lewis
brought n collection OF valuable MS
torlcal materials ana curios 10 the
jamestown exposition.
The virginia department. OF archives
and history Is department OF the
stare library, when mas been me Gus
todian Of the Virginia archives for
some years. An important prepara-
'ofy work was done III arranging the
papers before the creation oil inc de-
partmeht something Tess tiah TWO
years ago.
; Since that time much has been ac-
complished. Many of tho documents
are now regularly filed. and cata-
loguc Is being made OF them for the
use Of students aud those Interested