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Interviewees
Cabell, Kathleen Buchanan
Interviewer
Hill, Kathryn Colwell
Description
Kathleen and Royal E. Cabell, Jr. relocated Union Hill, the 1770s Cabell family home, from Nelson County to Goochland County 1980 and began a lengthy restoration process. Mr. Cabell, who passed away in 1999, was a prominent attorney and political activist. Mrs. Cabell is an authority on Goochland County and Cabell family history. In this interview, Mrs. Kathleen Buchanan Cabell discusses her background and her home, Union Hill, which was relocated from Nelson County to Goochland County, Virginia. The interview also includes a tour provided by Mrs. Cabell of the eighteenth century family home, where she discusses its history and architectural features. Photographs from the tour may be viewed in the VCU Oral History Archive Photos collection.
Personal Name Subject
Cabell, Kathleen Buchanan -- Interviews; Cabell, Kathleen Buchanan -- Homes and haunts; Cabell family -- Homes and haunts -- Virginia; Cabell family -- History
Topical Subject
Architecture -- Details; Architecture -- Conservation and restoration -- Virginia -- Goochland County; Historic buildings -- Virginia
Geographic Subject
Union Hill (Va.) -- Conservation and restoration
City/Location
Goochland County (Va.)
Genre
oral histories (literary genre)
Local Genre
oral history; sound recording; text; photograph
Type
Sound; Text
Digital Format
audio/mp3
Language
eng
Rights Statement URL
Rights
This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Collection
VCU Oral History Archive
Source
Oral history interview with Kathleen Cabell conducted by Kathryn E. Colwell in June and November of 2005. (Acc: 2006-07-14), Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.
File Name
ohi_cabellkathleen_part01.mp3
Disciplines
Public History | Social History | United States History