Solitude - Fletcher Family Digital Collection

Photograph of Robert and Richard Fletcher on the Solitude lawn, December 1908

The Fletcher family (Stevenson W. and his wife, Margaret R., along with four of their seven children, Robert, Richard, Stevenson, Jr., and Peter) lived at Solitude between 1908 and 1914. Stevenson, Jr. and Peter were born there. This collection of materials includes scrapbook pages and photographs handed down through Richard Fletcher's family and a memoir by Stevenson Fletcher about the years the family lived in Blacksburg.

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Special Collections and University Archives does not own this materials, but digital reproductions have been provided for public viewing.

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from the first year the family lived at Solitude

Photograph of Robert and Richard Fletcher on the Solitude lawn, December 1908

Photograph of a wood carving representation of Solitude by a member of the Fletcher family

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from the first year the family lived at Solitude

Photograph of Robert and Richard Fletcher on the Solitude lawn with a caretaker, July 1909

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1908 and 1909

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1909 and 1910

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1910

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1911 and 1912

Photograph of Margaret, Robert, Richard, and Stevenson Fletcher on the Solitude lawn, 1911

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1913

Scrapbook page belonging to Richard Rolston Fletcher, including photographs from Solitude in 1913 and 1914

Photograph of the Fletcher family in March 1913

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Photograph of a kindergarten class on the lawn of Solitude, June 1913

Photograph of the spring house at Solitude

"We Remember," by Steveson W. Fletcher and Margaret R. Fletcher, a memoir

Ancestry of John Stevenson Fletcher (genealogy chart)