The clerks office will be open the Friday after Thanksgiving. The best places to look for newspapers of the early 1800s pretaining to Louisa Co. people would be The Virginia Historical Society, Alderman Library at UVA and the Library of Virginia. It requires a lot of digging. The local newspaper here now has copies going back to the 1940s. I don't know of any collection that has a complete run of papers earlier, just scattered papers. Dr. Hodge at Germanna made an index to some Fredericksburg papers which might have Louisa news in them. I haven't studied them. Janice