Mary Norris Rawlings

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Daily Progress, Thursday June 9, 1960 (front page)

Mary Norris Rawlings (December 15, 1873 – June 8, 1960) was a civic leader and authority on Albemarle County history.

An author and founding member of the Albemarle County Historical Society; in 1950, she was made honorary lifetime president of the historical society.

A member of the Rawlings family, Miss Rawlings was the daughter of the late James Minor Rawlings, D.D., a Presbyterian minister, and Helen Carter Watson Rawlings. She was born December 15, 1873, at the home of her grandfather, Judge Egbert R. Watson, on Park Street.

She attended Miss Carrie Randolph’s “Edgehill School for Girls” while her father was chaplain at the University of Virginia 1886-88.

Publications

  • Early Charlottesville architecture. (Charlottesville, Va., 1953), also by Frederick Doveton Nichols, University of Virginia, and Albemarle County Historical Society (Va.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
  • Jeffersonian Republican (editor and publisher)
  • Early Charlottesville (1942)


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