Long before steeples pierced the skyline of our state’s first town, this Anglican parish held a jewel prized across the Albemarle — a library of roughly 1,000 books and pamphlets, shipped from London to sustain faith and learning on the colonial frontier. Purchased by Dr. Thomas Bray, founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, the collection became the community’s…
2026-06-16
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