Washington County (Va.)

Abstract

Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia. Bristol Chamber of Commerce, [1965]. 22 x 29 in. [FOLDER C-2]

Abstract

The Thomas W. Colley Collection contains correspondence, financial documents, such as ledgers, receipts, and deeds, temperance society sermons, electoral cards, a Veteran's Meeting minute book, Civil War reminiscences, and a roll for the First Virginia Company D Volunteer Cavalry's wounded and dead for 1861. The majority of the collection dates from 1860 to 1920.

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The collections consists of letters written from a George L. Ferguson to Julia Harvey Ingles in 1918 and 1919, during World War I.

Scope and Content

Washington County, Virginia, resident. Administrator's account of McClelland's estate.

Scope and Content

Washington County, Virginia, resident. Administrator's account of Rigg's estate upon his death.

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...

Abstract

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