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:
Regimental Order, No officer in command of a company will grant leave to more than five privates to be absent at one time, By order of Col. Preston, Camp Pickens, June 13, 1861 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F4_RegimntlOrder_1861_0613
Regimental Order, Reading of Rules and Articles for the government of the Army of Virginia. Signed: Col. Preston, Camp Cocke, June 25, 1861 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F6_RegimntlOrder_Rules_1861_0625
Regimental Order, Reduce our baggage to within limits stated. Signed: Col. Preston, Camp Cocke, June 27, 1861 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F6_RegimntlOrder_Baggage_1861_0627
Item — Box 1
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
The Yellow Sulphur Springs Hotel Account Book, which might more accurately be described as a guest register, includes the names of guests, their place of residence, the time of their arrival, and their room numbers. While the resort played host to guests from all areas of the United States--and a few from foreign countries--a number of guests were local residents. Each register page features advertisements for a variety of businesses in Lynchburg, Virginia. The register's entries commence on...
Dates:
1887-1895
Rendering of Braddock Street Methodist Church, Winchester, Virginia
Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-065
Rendering of Proposed Clearbrook School, Roanoke County, Virginia
Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-064
Rendering of the National Bank of Blacksburg
Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-067
Scope and Contents
VTF 3109; As of December 2011 hanging in Jenny's office
Dates:
1941 - 1941
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Repass/Spangler Family Correspondence,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-061
Abstract
The collection includes two original letters, one 1936 handwritten copy of an 1861 letter, and an undated letter. All correspondence relates to the Repass and Spangler families of Wythe County, Virginia.
Dates:
1861, 1936, undated
Found in:
Special Collections, Virginia Tech
Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying Hunger and Malnutrition in the Commonwealth to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia
, , 1985
Item — Folder 1
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This collection contains the final and draft versions of a report from the Virginia Congress on Hunger discussing hunger and poverty in the Commonwealth of Virginia, entitled Hunger and Poverty In Virginia: Revisiting the 1985 Report of the Joint Subcommittee Studying Hunger and Malnutrition in the Commonwealth. The report was submitted to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia and revisits findings in a previous report by the Virginia Congress on Hunger made...
Dates:
1985
Report that Col. Preston was not re-elected for duty. Signed: G. E. Pickett, Camp near Laurel Church, May 19, 1862 (Ms1992-003)
Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F9_PickettGE_1862_0519