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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:

Washington County Oral History Transcripts,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-023
Abstract The Washington County Oral History Transcripts were compiled by four Abingdon High School students. The transcripts detail interviews with Washington County residents Evelyn Campbell, Emma Josephine Poland Surber, and Nancy Johnson. The interviewees discuss their childhood activities, childhood fashion, schooling, and what their household was like in southwest Virginia. The students also inquire about the change in gas, cars, and houses since the interviewees were kids. Lastly, the students...
Dates: undated

Washington County, VA Daybook,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-068
Abstract

Washington County, VA Daybook contains names, items, and prices from an unidentified business.

Dates: 1896 - 1896

Washington County, Virginia, Court Notice of Payment for Slave Autopsy,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-045
Abstract

The collection consists of a Court Document, May 28, 1860, Washington County, Virginia.

Dates: May 28, 1860

Watershed Envelope [Prices Fork Vicinity Plat Map]

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0307
Abstract

Map shows the watershed envelope in the vicinity of Price's Fork, near Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: nd

Sessler Watkins Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-084
Abstract

Letter from Sessler Watkins, of Cary, West Virginia, to his mother, Mrs. J. B. Watkins of Troutville, Virginia, describing Watkins' experiences living and working in a company-owned mining town in West Virginia.

Dates: n.d.

Peter F. Weaver Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-038
Abstract

The collection contains a speech given by Peter F. Weaver, a newspaper article, letters, an invoice, and biographical notes about Weaver.

Dates: 1880-1907, 1974

Weaversville, Virginia Mill Daybook

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-2017-023
Dates: 1871 - 1872

West Iron Gate Land Company Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-012
Abstract

Accounts and correspondence of West Iron Gate Land Company (successor of Hileman, Waring & Company), a pig iron manufacturer in Clifton Forge (Allegany County), Virginia.

Dates: 1879 - 1902

Lindsay West Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-013
Scope and Contents The Lindsay West Papers span the years 1975-1996. The bulk of the collection is comprised of subject files West kept while she was serving on the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors in southwest Virginia. These files contain inter- and intra- office county government correspondence and memos, legal opinions, government documents, reports and studies, many of which include maps; and clippings. Most of the correspondence and documents are photocopies of county government documents...
Dates: 1975 - 1996

Ruby Bishop West Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-002
Abstract

A collection of materials related to Floyd County, Virginia history, particularly--but not limited to--church and education history, as well as materials related to the county's general history and its sesquicentennial celebration in 1981. Also includes personal materials, consisting of school records and diplomas from Radford College, personal photographs and ephemera, and sheet music from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dates: 1858 - 1981