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About
The
Antiquaries,
LC
W. Scott Breckinridge Smith,
Managing Partner
(Planner, Historian) email
Scott is a professional in the community development and historic preservation
fields,
serving as Regional Development Specialist with the Region
2000 Local Government Council (Planning District Commission #11).
From 2001-2006, he was Executive Director of Bedford Main Street, Inc. (affiliated
with the National Trust's Main Street Program). Scott serves on the Advisory Board of the Lynchburg
Museum System, is Vice President of the Lynchburg Museum
Foundation, and has recently been appointed by City Council to serve
as the Vice Chairman of the Lynchburg
Tourism Task Force.
Emily Patton Smith,
Partner (Art Historian) email
Emily hails from Grand
Junction in Western Colorado, and studied historic preservation at
Mary Washington College and art history at Randolph Macon Woman's College. An
historical author, Emily enjoys Revolutionary War era living history
and 18th century dancing. In 2004, she participated in the
Preservation Institute: Nantucket and designed and carried out a
decorative painting scheme in the upper hall of the circa 1804 Charles
Hussey House, which was the
Nantucket
Preservation Trust's 2004 Designer Show House
Jesse
Adams-Doolittle,
Research Associate (Architectural
Historian)
email
bio coming soon
L.
Nikole Branch,
Research Associate (Architectural Historian)
email
bio coming soon
Ted Delaney,
Research Associate (Historian)
email
Ted Delaney is the
Archivist and Curator of the
Old City
Cemetery Museums & Arboretum in Lynchburg, Virginia. He is a
graduate of the University of Virginia and co-author of
Free
Blacks of Lynchburg, Virginia, 1805-1865. Most of his academic
and professional work involves the history and genealogy of African
Americans in nineteenth-century Virginia. He also has ten years of
experience in documenting cemeteries, gravemarkers, and tombstone
carvers.
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Publications |
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Free Blacks
of Lynchburg, Virginia, 1805-1865, co-authored with
Wayne Rhodes |
| “This state of
neglect”...The Soldiers’ Burial Ground in Lynchburg During
the Civil War (Lynch's Ferry Magazine, Spring 1999) (buy) |
| Industry,
Economy, and Pride: The Life and Work of Amelia Perry Pride
(Lynch's Ferry Magazine, Spring 2001) (buy) |
| Leander
Harrison: Lynchburg’s Gentleman Barber (Lynch's Ferry
Magazine, Fall 2005) (buy) |
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Specialties |
| 19th Century
Virginia African Americans (free and enslaved) |
| Cemeteries,
gravemarkers, and tombstone carvers |
Sandi Esposito,
Research Associate
(Architectural Historian)
email
Sandi holds a bachelor of arts
degree in historic preservation from Mary Washington College. After
graduation, she worked as a guide at the
Museum of the
Confederacy in Richmond, and served as the architectural
historian for a Richmond firm where she developed a National
Register Nomination for the Fort Belvoir Historic District as well
as several individual nominations including the installation's
nuclear power plant, Thermo-Con House, and water filtration plant.
Sandi has completed several successful National Register Nominations
in Amherst County, including the Brick House (Clifford) and Edgewood
(Amherst), and six additional nomination projects are in progress.
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