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An illustrated history of Vesuvius is the newest “Rockbridge Epilogue.”
The article, richly illustrated with slides and other pictures, is by Richard Halseth, a historian, author and speaker. It was originally presented to the Rockbridge Historical Society.
Halseth traces the small community, located at the far northeast corner of Rockbridge, from its ironproducing days before the Civil War to today’s village with two churches, a restaurant, a post office, a community center and a tight-knit population of 614.
Halseth’s Vesuvius program was one in a series of slide presentations, beginning in 2016, in which RHS speakers took audiences to different villages in the county — Alone Mill, Collierstown, Denmark and Rapps Mill, to name just a few. With RHS’s agreement, “Epilogues” will publish other articles from the series from time to time.
Halseth’s article, the 40th “Epilogue,” is available at www.HistoricRockbridge. org. There is no cost or registration requirement. “Epilogues,” now seven years old, was established with the endorsement of RHS and Historic Lexington Foundation to make available scholarly and other well-researched, wellwritten articles about Rockbridge that are not in print elsewhere.
