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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:

Roanoke Hospital Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-037
Abstract

The collection consists of Roanoke Hospital Association administrative records.

Dates: c. 1931-1950

Roanoke Railway and Electric Company Photo Album

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2003-002
Abstract

A photo album featuring images of the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company buildings and lines, as well as scenic views in the Roanoke area.

Dates: c.1909

Roanoke Railway and Electric Company Photo Album

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2003_002_RoanokeRailway_Photographs

[Roanoke] Valley

 Collection
Identifier: Art-134
Scope and Contents

VTF 3094

Dates: n.d.

Roanoke, Virginia Scrapbook,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1932-001
Abstract

Scrapbook containing essays, photographs, reports, maps and ephemera, compiled to promote Roanoke as the site of a proposed new Veterans Administration hospital in Southwest Virginia.

Dates: 1931 - 1932

Wyndham Robertson Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-100
Abstract

This collection consists of correspondence between Wyndham Robertson and John G. English, a promissory note, and a copy of The Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia, Bulletin with a biography of Robertson.

Dates: 1846-1876, 1996

David Tobias Robinson Confederate Company List

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1992-017
Scope and Content

Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Manuscript list of Company E, 4th Virginia Volunteer Regiment, written by Robinson, listing rank, age, eye and hair color, occupation, and other information about the men in the company, most of them from Southwest Virginia counties. Also includes an itemized list of clothing distributed to each man.

Dates: c.1861-1863

W. Robinson Letter,

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1988-068
Abstract

Robinson was a Pittsylvania Country, Virginia, slave owner. Letter to Botetourt County, Virignia, man about slaves Robinson sent him.

Dates: 1810 - 1810

Rockbridge County, Virginia, Legal Document for Bastardy,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-093
Abstract

This legal document details the process by which Mary McDowell–an "unmarried colored woman"–names the father of her bastard child. The Justice of the Peace orders the father to make payments in support of his child.

Dates: 1873

Roll of Buffalo [Virginia] Guards

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1996-004
Scope and Content

Typescript listing of men in a Confederate regiment from Buffalo, Virginia (later West Virginia), and the Kanawha Valley, that mustered into service May 13, 1861, during the Civil War. Soon became part of the 36th Virginia Infantry as Company A, under John McGausland's command. Lists officers (including Captain William E. Fife and First Lieutenant B.B. Sterrett) and privates, with indication of whether or not they were killed, wounded, or had died.

Dates: n.d.