Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
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,
The collection consists of Roanoke Hospital Association administrative records.
Roanoke Railway and Electric Company Photo Album
A photo album featuring images of the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company buildings and lines, as well as scenic views in the Roanoke area.
Roanoke Railway and Electric Company Photo Album
Roanoke, Virginia Scrapbook,
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.
Wyndham Robertson Collection,
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.
David Tobias Robinson Confederate Company List
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.
W. Robinson Letter,
Robinson was a Pittsylvania Country, Virginia, slave owner. Letter to Botetourt County, Virignia, man about slaves Robinson sent him.
Rockbridge County, Virginia, Legal Document for Bastardy,
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.
Roll of Buffalo [Virginia] Guards
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.