Calendar:

May 31, 2013
Last Fridays: Blues on the Burwell Lawn summer concert series

June 1, 2013
Elizabeth Keckly Lecture at Dickerson Chapel AME Church

June 8, 2013
The Homefront in Hillsborough: Civil War Living History Event

Research

Browse the list of images

As part of our research on the over 200 young women who attended classes at the Burwell School, we have photographed sites, scanned documents and collected items associated with Burwell School students or members of the Robert Burwell family. Digital versions are available on this web site, listed alphabetically below.

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The Vine Gatherer's Daughter The Vine Gatherer's Daughter is attributed to Josephine Berry . Josephine Berry, a talented artist, was sent to New York to study design.

Annie Ruffin Cameron Written on Verso: Annie Ruffin Collins (nee Annie Ruffin Cameron , Mrs. George P. Collins), b. 1842 d. 1919. J.W. Watson's Gallery of Photographic Art.

Annie Ruffin Cameron as a Young Woman Young Annie Ruffin Cameron in an ornate oval frame. Donated to the Historic Hillsborough Commission by Mrs. Frederick B. Drane, her granddaughter.

Caroline J. Watters Caroline J. Watters . Gift of Mrs. Grant Shepherd.

Cemetery at Charlie's Hope Cemetery with the empty graves of Sallie Faulkner Brooks and her son, Thomas Easley, photographed by Kathleen M. Faherty in November 2008.

Chesley Farrar Faucette House Front View Photograph of the Chesley Farrar Faucette house where Elizabeth Jane Matilda Faucette lived as a young girl.

Dr. John T. Garland House Dr. John T. Garland House, photographed by Kent Williams on March 29, 2011.

Elizabeth Ann Berry Photocopy of a photograph of Elizabeth Ann Berry . Original photograph held by Mrs. Margaret Berry Street.

Elizabeth M. Carrington Elizabeth M. Carrington as a young girl. Black and white photograph of a beautiful young woman, dark hair parted and pulled in graceful swoops over her ears, dangling earrings and white lace collar over a lustrous dress, a very serious and direct gaze from large dark eyes. Copied from a photograph held by Susan Kilgore Wiley.

Emily Rowena Bell Emily Rowena Bell as a young girl, around the time she attended the Burwell School.