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Blacksburg (Va.)

 Subject

Subject Source: Local sources

Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use "Montgomery County" and "Local/Regional History," too.

Found in 537 Collections and/or Records:

Preston Family Correspondence

 File
Identifier: Ms-2010-070
Abstract

This collection consists of two letters. The first is written by James Francis Preston to his wife, Sarah Caperton Preston; he details the events of and his involvement in the First Battle of Bull Run. The second letter is written by Sarah to Colonel Grabowski and discusses her son’s (Hugh Caperton Preston) failure to follow an order at VMI.

Dates: 1861, 1872

Preston Family Correspondence, 1861, 1872 (Ms2010-070)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010-070
Dates: 1861, 1872

John Preston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1994-034
Scope and Content Information

This collection contains documents regarding John Preston's business affairs; including promissory notes, loan agreements, and personal correspondence. Many of the documents appear to be draft versions which were at one point bound together, perhaps in Preston's own letter-book

Dates: 1796 - 1844

Robert Taylor Preston Papers,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-003
Abstract

The collection consists of 218 letters, military orders, notes, certificates of military appointments, and other items, collected or created by Preston between 1849 and 1871, with the majority from the period between May 1861 and December 1862.

Dates: 1849 - 1871; Majority of material found within 1861 - 1862

William Preston Land Grant

 Collection — Folder 1
Identifier: Ms-1994-027
Scope and Content Surveyor and militiaman. Born in Ireland, came to the American colonies in 1738. Settled in area of Virginia that is now Montgomery County. Established the plantation Smithfield in 1773, which is now near the Virginia Tech campus and run by the Montgomery County branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Land grant is for 2175 acres in Botetourt County, Virginia (now the land that is Smithfield), purchased by Preston, signed by British King George III and...
Dates: 1773 - 1773

Emmett Russell Price Scrapbooks,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-011
Abstract

This collection contains the scrapbooks of Emmett Russell Price, professor of Agricultural Journalism at VPI, from 1910-1944. The scrapbooks consist of newspaper clippings about Blacksburg and VPI.

Dates: 1910 - 1943

Harvey Lee Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-001
Scope and Content This collection consists of notes and outlines of various Montgomery County families which Price used to write his four volume series "Outlines of Montgomery County Families" which is available in the Special Collections department of Virginia Tech. Material in the Harvey Lee Price collection include Price's own background research, notes, transcribed historical documents, and correspondence with numerous families with historical connections to Montgomery County. Also included are...
Dates: 1853, 1927-49, n.d.

Price House Landscaping Plan, Price House Existing Site Plan (3 sheets)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0237
Abstract

Site plans show the species of trees to be included in the landscaping of Price House in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1989, 1986

James Bane Price Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-008
Abstract

The collection consists of eight account books from the James Bane Price store in Prices Fork (Montgomery County), Virginia; the books provide details of daily transactions, expenditures and costumer accounts and span the years 1871 to 1897.

Dates: 1871 - 1897

Jimmie L. Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-048
Scope and Content Information His collection consists of four videotapes of interviews conducted by Price with Montgomery County residents, including an interview in 1986 with Elizabeth Kent Adams about the Kentland property; interviews conducted in 1987 with four Montgomery County residents, including Robert H. Surface, Albert Hamlin, Evans Linkous, and Arnold Linkous, about coal mines and mining in the county; and an interview with Frank Bannister of Montgomery County, whose ancestors were slaves and later servants at...
Dates: 1986 - 2003