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:
Floyd and Wythe County Lutheran Churches Collection,
This collection contains two photographs (1940), a newspaper article (1946), and an index card with notes from the article (n.d.)relating to the Zion Lutheran Church near Crockett, Virginia. The collection also contains a photograph (1923) and a mailer (1916) from the Zion Lutheran Church in Floyd, Virginia.
Floyd County Land Auction Broadside,
The collection includes a broadside advertising a land auction in Floyd County, Virginia, to be held on August 5, 1859.
Floyd Courthouse Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records,
Records of Floyd Courthouse Chapter (Floyd, Virginia) chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, including minutes, yearbooks, and yearly reports.
John Buchanan Floyd Letter
M. L. Foley Collection,
The collection includes receipts and more than 100 pieces of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to M. L. Foley's business selling birds out of Salem, Virginia.
Lewis M. Foster Letter,
The collection includes a single letter from Lewis M. Foster to his mother, written near Petersburg, Virginia, December 1864.
Samuel D. Foster Letter
Union soldier in the Civil War, writing August 17, 1864, from Louisville, Kentucky, to a friend. Describes conditions at the Confederate prison in Danville, Virginia, where he was recently held as a prisoner of war. Notes the behavior of the guards and the quality of the food.
William Edward Foster Family Papers
Henry M. Fowlkes Letters,
The collection Henry M. Fowlkes Letters includes two letters written to his family during the Civil War.
Henry Francis Correspondence
Corporal in Co. F, 2nd Virginia Regiment, during the Spanish-American War. Letters from camp in Jacksonville, Florida, to his mother in Simpson, Floyd County, Virginia, about life in camp, his estranged wife, and his various misfortunes. Transcripts available.