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Giles County (Va.)

 Subject

Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use "Local/Regional History," too.

Found in 13 Collections and/or Records:

Eggleston Cliffs in Mist

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-129
Scope and Contents

VTF 2871; painting

Dates: c.1982

Farrier Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1974-011
Scope and Content

The collection includes files from the firm of Williams and Farrier, later Farrier and Farrier. Materials include copies of deeds, title searches, land transactions, estate matters, loan contracts, divorce suits, small claims collection suits, ledgers, and correspondence. Additional details of some files are included in the original inventories, available on request.

Dates: 1894 - 1972

David H. Gordon Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-019
Abstract

This collection consists of a Confederate pay and discharge certificate and short biography of David Harrison Gordon. He enlisted as a private in Company L of the Confederate Army's 4th Virginia Infantry on April 16, 1861, in Blacksburg, Virginia, and was discharged after his death due to disease at Staunton on April 18, 1862.

Dates: 1863, undated

Little Stoney Game and Fish Preserve, Giles Co., VA,

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0433
Dates: 1926 - 1926

Map of Giles County, Showing Primary and Secondary Highway Systems

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0216
Abstract

Map shows highways of Giles County, Virginia, with a mileage table.

Dates: 1940

Map of Lake Hotel Corp. Property, Mt. Lake, Giles County, VA,

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0432
Dates: 1960 - 1960

Thomas S. Miller Account Books,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1940-020
Abstract

Account books--including day books and ledgers--maintained by Thomas Shannon Miller, proprietor of a general store at White Gate (Giles County), Virginia during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Dates: 1885 - 1914

William T. Munsey Account Books,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1940-025
Abstract

Ledgers maintained by William T. Munsey, proprietor of a general mercantile store in Giles County, Virginia, during the early 20th century.

Dates: 1912 - 1924

Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2013-086
Abstract

The Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History collection contains oral history interviews, transcripts, notes, newspaper clippings, historic district survey forms, a video tape, and a geological survey map related to the creation of the Greater Newport Rural Historic District. The collection dates from 1973 to 2009, although it does include a typed copy of a 1904 Giles County will.

Dates: 1904, 1973-2006