Spahr Family Collection
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspaper clippings about Joel Bush Spahr and his hobby, landscaping and propagating shrubs. It also contains a ledger book and series of notecards in which the Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park tenants' monthly rent payments were recorded.
Dates
- Creation: 1959 - 1991
Creator
- Spahr family (Family)
Access Restrictions
Collection is open to research.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish material from the Spahr Family Collection must be obtained from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Biographical/Historical Information
Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park was established and constructed by Joel Bush Spahr in 1959. Located to the northeast of Blacksburg on Virginia Route 685, the trailer park offered married students a nice place to live during a time when few apartments existed in Blacksburg. Spahr was interested in gardening and landscaped the lots that the trailers occupied. After Joel Spahr's death in 1977, his wife Christine ran the trailer park until her death in 1990. Their daughters, Sandra Jennings and Janet Spahr, then owned and operated the trailer park until it closed in 1999.
Full Extent
0.3 Cubic Feet (1 box)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Spahr Family Collection contains records of rent payments at the Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park and clippings about Joel Bush Spahr's landscaping hobby. Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park, run by the Spahrs, operated from 1959 to 1999 on property to the northwest of Blacksburg, Virginia.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by format.
Acquisition Information
The Spahr Family Collection was donated to the Special Collections by its creator in 2004.
Processing Information
The processing, arrangement, and description of the Spahr Family Collection was completed in 2005.
Subject
- Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park (Blacksburg, Va.) (Organization)
- Title
- A Guide to the Spahr Family Collection 1959-1991
- Status
- Completed
- Subtitle
- Spahr Family Collection
- Author
- Amy Shaffer
- Date
- © 2004 By Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. All rights reserved.
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections, Virginia Tech Repository
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
560 Drillfield Drive
Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg Virginia 24061 US
540-231-6308
specref@vt.edu