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[Identification of item], in the J. and M. Schultz store ledger #4815-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from E. W. Brooks, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in June 1996 (Acc. 96084).

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• Account books--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Albemarle County (Va.)--Economic conditions--19th century.
• Crites family.
• J. and M. Schultz.
• Merchants--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Nelson County (Va.)--Economic conditions--19th century.

Store, blacksmith shop, and mill in Afton, Va., about 20 miles west of Charlottesville. Customers lived in western Albemarle County and northern Nelson County, Va. After the Civil War, the store was owned by Chesterfield Critzer. Critzer descendants ran the business from the late 19th century until the late 1940s. The building still stands on Critzer's Shop Road in Afton.

Store ledger, 1855-1860, from store in Afton, Va. The ledger contains 464 pages of accounts with individuals in Albemarle and Nelson counties, Va., for purchases of groceries, fabric, clothes, shoes, hardware, and other supplies. The name J. and M. Schultz is printed on the spine of the volume.