Cabells on the Internet

Related Links to Online Resources

 

The Cabell Foundation

Official homepage of The Cabell Foundation, Inc., “A Virginia Memorial and Genealogical Organization.”

Historical Maps of Cabell Property

Notes and images prepared by Thomas Turpin Bannister of the University of Rochester’s Department of Biology for a presentation at the Cabell Foundation’s Annual Meeting in Williamsburg in October 2000.

Cocke Family Papers at the University of Virginia

Online guide to the largest single collection of Cocke family papers, chiefly correspondence to Gen. John Hartwell Cocke.

Jefferson Papers at the University of Virginia

Online calendar of Jefferson Papers deposited at the University.

Thomas Jefferson: Digital Archive

Scanned documents and images by and about Jefferson, maintained by the Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia.

“Arise and Build!”: A Centennial Commemoration of the 1895 Rotunda Fire

A University of Virginia Special Collections online exhibit from 1995.

The Corotoman Slave Histories

An extensive database, based in part on the Cabell Family Papers at U.Va., which documents over 1,200 enslaved persons who lived on the vast Corotoman estate in Lancaster County, Va., from 1653 to 1862. Joseph Carrington Cabell became part owner of Corotoman and its enslaved population in 1807, and Corotoman remained in Cabell ownership until 1862.