Montgomery County (Va.)
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: If you use this subject heading, please use "Local/Regional History," too.Found in 767 Collections and/or Records:
Argabright Family Ledger,
Ledger details the business records of a blacksmith shop run by the Argabrights in Blacksburg, Virginia. The entries date from 1848 to 1854.
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, Montgomery County Branch Papers,
The records largely document the recent history of Smithfield Plantation, ancestral home of the Preston family, focusing particularly on its restoration beginning in 1962. While much of the renovation occurred in the 1960s, many of the records detail other renovation projects done in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also includes historical and other related documents dating from before the original Preston family's residence at Smithfield.
Attorney's Suit and Collection Record,
The Attorney's Suit and Collection Record is a business log covering litigation for the area of Blacksburg, Virginia, during the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. The author remains unknown, but prominent Blacksburg families and institutions appear in the record, such as the Black family, VPI, and the Bank of Blacksburg.
Bank of Blacksburg Minute Book,
The Bank of Blacksburg Minute Book collection consists of photocopies of the minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings between the years 1892- 1903.
James Barnett Inventory
This collection contains one list of free Negroes and Mulattoes, compiled by James Barnett, district commissioner of revenue, Montgomery County, Virginia. The list includes places of residence of the free persons as well as a brief job description for each. The list divides Mulattoes from Negroes and while the Mulattoes consist of three families totaling fifteen persons, there are only two Negroes, one of whom is John Hope, father of one of the Mulatto families.
John W. Barnett Patent,
Broadside entitled "Instructions for Using John W. Barnett's Patent Process for Curing Leaf Tobacco. Patented January 7th 1879." Barnett is identified as a resident of Big Spring, Montgomery County, Virginia.
Dale Belcher Photographs
Photographer of Floyd County, Virginia. Black & white photographs of scenes in Floyd, Lee, Montgomery, Patrick, and Scott counties, Virginia, and scenes in Kentucky and West Virginia, depicting the traditional culture of mountain people.
Bell, Kent, Cloyd, Withrow Family Collection,
Moses Beveers Land Grant
Grant for fifty acres in Montgomery County, Virginia, signed by James Monroe, then governor of Virginia.
Big Vein Anthracite Collieries Records
Daily fire boss reports for mining operation in McCoy (Montgomery County), Virginia, describing mine conditions.