This page is an abbreviated version of a program presented at the Amherst County Museum on March 20, 2011. Frank Cash was a photographer who lived in Monroe, Amherst County, Virginia. The original glass plate negatives have been digitized for ease of viewing, and the entire collection is over 250 glass plates. He did photography for portraits, postcards, family and friends. His favorite topics included the gardens at Sweet Briar, trains, roads, Monroe, and family. Most of the pictures were taken between 1905 and 1915.

"Grandpa" (David Seay)

Monroe Station

Special portrait: Arva Garvin (later married Horance Reeves Floyd)

MHS (Madison Heights School, before the Phelps Road school?)

The vegetable gardens at Sweet Briar Institute. Sign reads: David Harris, Mgr., New Onion Culture, est. yield 1000 bushels per acre.

Sweet Briar

Monroe: Southern Railroad roundhouse viewed from the west across Harris Creek

Bertha Grillbortzer (Pettyjohn)

Wrecker lifting an engine

House at Five Forks and Father Judge roads.

Lynchburg Lock

Lynchburg bridge on Southern Railroad. This is near Old 97 Way (private drive) on the Amherst County side near where Harris Creek enters the James River and near Riverside Park on the Lynchburg side.

Kash & Son Dairy

New school house at Campbells

Motor car

Monroe

Steam engine; engineer: William David Grillbortzer

Heald engine

Philips store

David Seay; his house and mill at Coleman Falls

The old bridge before Monroe Station was moved

Rocky Pass, shortly before the Southern tracks cross over the James to Lynchburg

Lunchroom at Monroe. This burned some time after 1912. On south side across from Hicks store; station to the right

Turntable roundhouse; Monroe had an eighteen star roundhouse