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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Scope Note: Use this for collections relating to Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, and Appalachia.

Found in 1734 Collections and/or Records:

Blacksburg [Virginia] Odd Fellows Records, 1902-1969 (Ms1988-009)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988-009
Dates: 1902/1969

Blacksburg - Virginia Polytechnic Institute Civilian Defense Council Records,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1979-005
Abstract

Records--including correspondence, reports, and printed materials--of a local civilian defense council organized in Blacksburg, Virginia during World War II.

Dates: 1942 - 1945

Blacksburg [Virginia] Presbyterian Church Land Deeds

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1994-007
Scope and Content

Three deeds for land owned or sold by the trustees of the Blacksburg Presbyterian Church. Trustees include K. Black, W. M. Lybrook, Charles Black, Edwin I. Amiss, and Thomas Brown.

Dates: 1850, 1904, 1924

Blacksburg [Virginia] Regional Art Association Records,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-045
Abstract

The collection contains materials from the community art club formed as a chapter of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, including programs and letters to members from the 1960s and 1970s.

Dates: 1960 - 1971

Blacksburg [Virginia], Town of, Miscellaneous Records

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-1987-003
Scope and Content

Collection consists of a variety of Blacksburg town documents and reports collected by Virginia Polytechnic Institute librarians. Includes financial statements (1927-1951), a typescript annual report (1954), a population study (1944), Chamber of Commerce brochures, and information on elections (1936-1968).

Dates: 1885 - 1968

Blacksburg Woman's Club Records,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1963-002
Abstract

Records of the Blacksburg Woman's Club. Includes club correspondence, minutes, financial records, scrapbooks and printed material.

Dates: 1907 - 1972

Blacksmith Ledger,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-049
Abstract

The Blacksmith Ledger is from Rural Retreat, VA c. 1928 and features approx. 200 pages of local customer order logs.

Dates: c.1928

Daniel Blain Papers

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1990-002
Scope and Content Confederate soldier in the 1st Rockbridge Artillery in the Civil War; later a Presbyterian minister in Rockbridge County, Virginia, and a high school principal. Papers include four letters, written July 5 and September 18, 1864, from camp near Petersburg, Virginia, to his future wife. Writes about the chaplaincy in the CSA Army, sitting with a dying man in his last hours, the freedom he had before the war, and news from the front in Mobile, Alabama. Refers to the shelling of Petersburg and...
Dates: 1864 - 1870

Bland County. Round Mountain Property--Prospectus

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0210
Abstract

Map centers on Burks Garden in Bland County, Virginia, and shows ores of mineral deposit in the region. Document contains handwritten note commenting on the text that accompanies the map.

Dates: ca. 1885

Marvin Blecher Audiocassette Tape

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1998-017
Scope and Content

Oral history interview conducted by Virginia Tech student Christina Roemer with Marvin and Freda Blecher of Blacksburg, Virginia, about their involvement in the Jewish community in the town and the Hillel student organization at Virginia Tech. Dr. Marvin Blecher served as faculty advisor for Hillel from 1973 to 1983. Also includes information about the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center and other Jewish communities in the region.

Dates: 1998 - 1998