Appalachian History: Manuscript Resources in Special Collections
ACKLER, BRYAN. PAPERS, 1968-71. 1.0 cu. ft. Graduate of
Virginia Tech
(1971), and one of the founders and editors of Alice, a
Blacksburg, Virginia, underground newspaper. Collection consists of
issues of Alice (1968-71); a tape recording of a student reply to a
University radio program about student unrest; and a paper written by
Ackler, "Alice: the Study of a Free Press." Ms90-047.
ADAMS, ELIZABETH KENT (1908-1994). PAPERS, 1922-1987. 0.2 cu. ft. Resident of Radford, Virginia and local historian. Correspondence, newspaper clippings, genealogical charts, essays, and other materials related to the history of Southwest Virginia and of Adams' ancestral lines, especially the Cloyd, Kent, McGavock and Putnam families. Includes photocopy of the autobiography of A. W. Putnam, photocopies of James Randall Kent's will and inventory of debts, and photocopies and originals of other family papers. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms90-045.
ADRIANCE, THOMAS (1937-96). PAPERS, 1980-95. 3.0 cu. ft.
Associate Professor of History at Virginia Tech (1968-96). Educated at
Dartmouth College (B.A., 1959) and Columbia University (Ph.D., 1968).
Papers consist of approximately 700 performance programs of theatrical
and musical productions given in the local Blacksburg and Southwest
Virginia region, New York City, and cities in Europe. Programs include
performances given by the Roanoke Symphony, Barter Theatre (Abingdon,
Virginia), and the Metropolitan Opera. Inventory available. Ms96-003.
ALABAMA GREAT SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1877-
1932. Ms84-003. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
ALEXANDER, HENRIE H. LETTER, 1862. 0.1 cu. ft. Blacksburg,
Virginia, resident, and Confederate lieutenant in the 22nd Virginia
Regiment in the Civil War. Letter written June 10, 1862, from Alexander,
in Blacksburg, to Captain W.G. Price in Wytheville, Virginia, about a
recent skirmish with the Union soldiers at Salt Sulphur Springs, Virginia
(now West Virginia). Ms60-002.
ALLEGHANY CHAPTER, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN
REVOLUTION. RECORDS, 1890-1994, n.d. 3.5 cu. ft. The Daughters of
the American Revolution (D.A.R.) was formed in 1890 as an organization to
perpetuate the memory and spirit of the men and women who achieved
American Independence, to encourage historical research in relation to
the Revolution, and to promote the celebration of all patriotic
anniversaries. Membership in the D.A.R. is eligible to any woman who
descended from a man or women who served as a sailor or soldier or civil
officer in the American colonies or states or rendered material aid to
the cause for American Independence. The Alleghany Chapter was organized
in 1911 in Blacksburg, Virginia, of members who descended from the
pioneers who held land in the New River section of the Allegheny
Mountains. The records consist of rosters, D.A.R. magazines,
constitutions and by-laws, yearbooks, scrapbooks, news bulletins,
obituaries of members, and the original charter of the chapter. Inventory available. Ms95-019.
AMERICAN CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. RECORDS, 1881-89. Ms84-004. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
AMISS, EDWIN J. LAND GRANT, 1838. 0.1 cu. ft. Land grant signed
by Governor David Campbell for 150 acres of land in Montgomery County,
Virginia, to Amiss. Ms80-044.
ANDERSON, C. B. RECORDS, 1884-1910. 0.5 cu. ft. General store owner in Newbern (Pulaski County), Virginia. Ledgers, daybooks, and business journals for accounts in Anderson's store (7 items). Finding aid
available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms 89-083.
ANDERSON, SHERWOOD (1876-1941). PAPERS, ca. 1930-41. 0.1 cu. ft.
American novelist, short story writer, and critic. Settled on Ripshin
Farm in Marion, Virginia, in 1929. Papers consist of a typescript letter
(1931) to Anderson from Lee Brian of Dallas, Texas, about a short story
Brian sent with the letter, and three holograph letters (undated) from
Anderson to Brian and to an unknown person. Includes fourteen pictures
of Anderson in various stages of adulthood, including one with Thornton
Wilder. Also includes two published short stories with Anderson's
annotations, "A Meeting South" in Sherwood Anderson's Notebook (1926) and
"Hello Towns" in Hello Towns (1929). Ms73-002.
APPALACHIAN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT. RECORDS, 1986-1991. 1.25 cu. ft. Oral
history interviews conducted by students of Dr. Jean Speer and Dr. Bohland in the Department of
Humanities at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University. Interviewees include Frank W.
Bannister, Lillie A. Beavers, Julia T. Bratton, Thomas Cartmel Brown, Carol M. Caldwell,
Freeman A. Cockram, Virginia B. Creger, Robert and Josephine Dolinger, Ora Evans, Donald R.
Fessler, Anne W. Frame, David H. Halsey. Mildred S. Richardson, Judith C. Sale, Elizabeth M.
Weatherford. Restricted interview materials include Georgia Croy, Carlton Harmon, Jack and
Lillian Minnick, Ellison A. Smyth, and Keith Webb. Materials consist of audiocassette and
mini-cassette tapes, tape logs, and student photographs and essays about some interviewees.
Transcript available for the Hamblin interview. Finding
aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms93-025.
APPALACHIAN QUILT PROJECT. CASSETTE TAPES, 1978-79. 0.8 cu. ft.
Oral history project conducted by the Department of Clothing, Textiles,
and Related Art at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Collection consists of recorded interviews with forty-three quiltmakers
in Floyd and Washington counties, Virginia. Transcripts available.
Ms81-097.
APPALACHIAN STUDENT ORGANIZING COMMITTEE, VIRGINIA TECH.
RECORDS,
1972-74. 10.0 cu. ft. Consists primarily of the papers of David Tice
and Allan Cox, student organizers of the ASOC. Materials include
correspondence, clippings files, small press and local publications on
Appalachian issues, petitions, and notes and drafts. Records deal with
various topics, including strip mining and land use issues, poverty,
health care and free clinics, coal mining and coal miners, strikes, local
political races, issues at VPI&SU, and the Vietnam War and other national
and international issues. Other Blacksburg and VPI&SU organizations
whose records can be found (in varying degrees) in the collection include
Operation Coal Mining, the Appalachian Student Committee, and the
Appalachian Regional Resource Committee. Unprocessed. RG 42.
APPERSON FAMILY; see BLACK, KENT, AND APPERSON FAMILIES, PAPERS OF, 1779-1984 (Bulk
1821-1948). 7 l.f. John Samuel Apperson (1837-1908) served as a hospital
steward under Dr. Harvey Black in the 4th Virginia Regiment and the
field hospital of the Second Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, during
the Civil War, and later became a doctor. Papers include Apperson's
correspondence (ca. 1850-1900) and Civil War diaries (1861-65, 6
diaries); a medallion (1893) commemorating the 400th anniversary of
Christopher Columbus's discovery of America owned by John S. Apperson;
the correspondence and genealogical notes (ca. 1920-85) of Mr. and Mrs.
Alex Apperson; and a notebook containing a Blacksburg history (1944) by
Mary Apperson. Also includes scrapbooks (1933-50) of clippings,
correspondence, and telegrams with information about the political
career of Harvey Black Apperson (1890-1948), who was a State Senator and
Attorney General of Virginia. Includes leases and reports from the
Blacksburg Mining and Manufacturing Company of Montgomery County,
Virginia, of which Alex Apperson was a stockholder. Genealogical notes
and sources compiled by Alex and Miriam Apperson include information on
the Amiss, Crockett, Dudley, Mastin, Porter, Tynes, and Woodbridge
families. The Appersons were connected by marriage to the Black and Kent
families. Finding
aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.
Ms74-003.
ASHER, ANTHONY L. PAPERS, 1921-23. 0.1 cu. ft. Captain in the
Army in World War I, later a resident of West Virginia and Roanoke,
Virginia. Papers consist of letters which mention Asher's participation
as a National Guardsman in the West Virginia Coal Mining Wars in
September 1921, and which deal with an accusation that Asher stole
property or money from the National Guard in 1922; photographs; and a
typescript resume by Asher. Ms88-078.
ASHEVILLE AND CRAGGY MOUNTAIN RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1890-1941. Ms84-007. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
ASHEVILLE AND NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1905-39. Ms84-008. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
ASHEVILLE AND SPARTANBURG RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1881-1902. Ms84-009. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
ASSOCIATION FOR THE PRESERVATION OF VIRGINIA ANTIQUITIES,
MONTGOMERY
COUNTY BRANCH. RECORDS, 1754-1996. 6.0 cu. ft. Founded in 1889, the
APVA has twenty branches which own and maintain historic properties. The
Montgomery County branch maintains the Smithfield Plantation in
Blacksburg. Records largely document the recent history of Smithfield,
ancestral home of the Preston family, especially its restoration
beginning in 1962. Includes correspondence of George Green Shackelford
(then director of the Montgomery County APVA), minutes, reports,
clippings, programs, photographs, and architectural drawings, as well as
APVA annual reports, newsletters (1982-88), and issues of
Discovery (1977-89). Also includes historical documents of and
genealogical information about the Preston family. Inventory available.
Ms62-001.
ATLANTIC AND FRENCH BROAD VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1880-82. Ms84-013. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
ATLANTIC, MISSISSIPPI & OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1870-82. Ms81-001. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BANK OF BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA]. MINUTE BOOK, 1892-1903. 1 vol.
Photocopy of the minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings.
Ms83-004.
BARKER AND CLARKS GAP RAILROAD. RECORDS, 1907-21. Ms81-002. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BARNETT, JAMES. INVENTORY, 1811. 0.1 cu. ft. List of
free Negroes and Mulattoes, compiled by James Barnett, district commissioner of revenue for Montgomery County, Virginia. List includes places of residence of the free persons
as well as a brief job description. Finding
aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.
Ms2002-022.
BARNETT, JOHN W. PATENT, 1879. 1 item. 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. Image available Ms98-002.
BELCHER, DALE. PHOTOGRAPHS, 1987-94. 34 items. 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. Ms97-021.
BELT RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1891-99. Ms81-003. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BELT RAILWAY COMPANY OF CHATTANOOGA. RECORDS, 1895-1946. Ms84-019. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BELTON, WILLIAMSTON, AND EASLEY RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1878-79. Ms84-020. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BEVERLY, MOSES. LAND GRANT, 1792. 0.1 cu. ft. Grant for fifty
acres in Montgomery County, Virginia, signed by James Monroe, then
governor of Virginia. Ms86-017.
BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION [MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA].
RECORDS,
1973-77. 1.0 cu. ft. Commission organized to encourage county
organizations to engage in Bicentennial commemorative programs. Records
0.5 cu. ft.); and annual reports and ot
include correspondence, minutes, reports, and newspaper clippings.
Ms76-001.
BIG SANDY AND CUMBERLAND RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1900-32. Ms81-004. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BIG SANDY, EAST LYNN, AND GUYAN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1902-11. Ms81-005. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BIG STONY RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1897-1917. Ms81-006.
BIG VEIN ANTHRACITE COLLIERIES, INC. RECORDS, 1928. 2 vols.
Coal mining operation in McCoy, Montgomery County, Virginia. Records
consist of the "Daily Report of Fire Boss," with entries from December
1926 to November 1928 describing conditions in the mines. Signed by J.M.
Albert and E.D. McCoy, fire bosses, and D.C. Stanton, mine foreman.
Ms90-014.
BLACK APPALACHIANS ORAL HISTORY PROJECT. CASSETTE TAPES, 1991. 0.4 cu. ft. Oral history interviews (22 on 25 tapes) conducted by Dr. Michael Cooke of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University of and about blacks in Appalachia, predominantly in Montgomery County, Virginia. Interviewees include Frank T. Bannister, Leola Burns, Alexandra Burford, Roxie Ida Byson, Rice Dobbins, James E. Dow, Rosa Thomas Holmes, Charles A. Johnson, Thompson V. Lester, Elizabeth Lester, Walter H. Lewis, William Burrell Morgan, W. Waymon Pack (transcript available), Cora Pack, J. Homer Pack, Christine P. Price (transcript available), Valerie Scott, Mason Scott, Homer C. Sherman, James E. Sherman, Ellison A. Smyth (transcript available), James C. Wade (transcript available), and Sarah J. Wade (transcript available). Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms91-019.
BLACK, KENT, AND APPERSON FAMILIES, PAPERS OF, 1779-1984 (Bulk
1821-1948). 7 l.f. Papers and artifacts of an interrelated family
prominent in Blacksburg's history. Dr. Harvey Black (1827-88) served in
the Civil War as a surgeon for the Fourth Virginia Infantry Regiment and
as surgeon in charge of the field hospital of the 2nd Corps, Army of
Northern Virginia. Black assisted in the operation on General Thomas J.
"Stonewall" Jackson after he had been wounded at the Battle of
Chancellorsville. He was a founder and was on the first Board of
Visitors of the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, now
Virginia Tech. Papers include the Civil War correspondence of
Confederate surgeon Dr. Harvey Black to his wife, the Civil War diary of
hospital steward John S. Apperson, cotton books and correspondence of
Germanicus Kent, nineteenth-century account books of Blacksburg
mercantile establishments, a 1912 European travel diary, the political
scrapbooks of State Senator and Attorney General Harvey B. Apperson, and
genealogy research on the Black, Kent, and Apperson and related
families. Also includes a manuscript notebook
with a history of Blacksburg, as told to Mary E. Apperson by her
mother Lizzie Black Apperson. The Blacks were connected by marriage to
the Apperson and Kent families. Ms74-003. Finding
aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.
Ms74-003.
BLACK, JOHN H. LETTER, 1864. 0.1 cu. ft. Lieutenant in the 12th
predominantly in Montgomery County, Virginia.
Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry in the Civil War, writing his wife on
October 21, 1864, from Bolivar Heights, Virginia (now West Virginia).
Writes about the Battle of Cedar Creek (October 19, 1864) and efforts to
recruit new troops to replace those lost in the battles. Ms89-089.
BLACK MOUNTAIN RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1903-08. Ms84-022. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA], TOWN OF. MISCELLANEOUS RECORDS,
1885-1968.
0.3 cu. ft. Collection consists of a variety of Blacksburg town
documents and reports collected by Virginia Polytechnic Institute
librarians. Includes financial statements (1927-51), a typescript annual
report (1954), a population study (1944), Chamber of Commerce brochures,
and information on elections (1936-68). Ms87-003.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] COMMUNITY CONCERT ASSOCIATION.
RECORDS,
1939-69. 1.0 cu. ft. Organized to invite outside artists to perform on
the Virginia Tech campus. Records include membership ledgers (33 vol.),
programs, letters to members, and newspaper clippings. Ms76-002.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] COMMUNITY FEDERATION. RECORDS,
1926-57.
0.2 cu. ft. Formed in 1928 to unite community organizations toward
common goals in matters dealing with public health, education, and
community beautification. Originally called the Blacksburg Federated
Council and was the direct outgrowth of a community study done in 1928 by
the Virginia Tech Department of Rural Sociology in cooperation with
various town organizations. Collection includes Community Days Programs
(1926-29), Community Chest letters (1934-45), a Directory of Blacksburg
Service Agencies (1942), and miscellaneous documents. Ms87-002.
[BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA, GENERAL STORE DAY BOOK, 1894-95.] 1
vol.
Unidentified Blacksburg general store. Customer accounts. Ms68-010.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] HIGH SCHOOL BAND BOOSTERS.
SCRAPBOOK,
1972-75. 1 vol. Scrapbook of newspaper clippings and photographs of the
Blacksburg High School Warrior Band and about the work of the Band
Boosters, whose purpose was to encourage and support the development of
the instrumental program in the Blacksburg schools. Ms94-031.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] MUSIC CLUB. RECORDS, 1953-71. 3.0 cu.
ft.
Records include stockhold
Organization designed to promote the study of music among its members and
to stimulate interest in and appreciation of music in the Blacksburg
community. Records include programs, financial records, minutes,
scrapbooks, programs, news clippings, lists of members, and bylaws and
constitutions. Unprocessed. Ms79-008.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] ODD FELLOWS LODGE. RECORDS, 1910-30.
3.8 cu. ft. Black fraternal and religious organization. Records include
papers of the Independent Order of St. Luke, souvenir programs, annual
reports, calendars, financial reports, proceedings from meetings,
circulars, membership books, ritual books, and correspondence. Collection includes
black wool uniform coatee with brass buttons with insignia BOOF. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.
Ms88-009.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] ORAL HISTORY PROJECT. RECORDS, 1984-
85.
0.2 cu. ft. Project of the University Libraries of Virginia Tech to
collect information on the history of Blacksburg, Virginia. Collection
contains taped interviews, most with transcripts, of the following
Blacksburg residents: Cliff Busby, Georgia Croy, S.H. Kessinger, Lucy Lee
Lancaster, George Litton, Howard Price, Carrie T. Sibold, and Ellison A.
Smyth. Ms85-005.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] POST OFFICE. RECORDS, 1914-22. 0.4 cu.
ft.
Collection consists of Postmaster's account and record book (1914-17),
cash books of the International Money Order Office (1915-22, 4 vols.),
and a postmark impression book (1918-20). Ms73-009.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. LAND DEEDS,
1850,
1904, AND 1924. 0.1 cu. ft. Three deeds for land owned or sold by the
trustees of the Blacksburg Presbyterian Church. Trustees include K.
Black, W.M. Lybrook, Charles Black, Edwin I. Amiss, and Thomas Brown.
Ms94-007.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] REGIONAL ART ASSOCIATION. RECORDS,
1960-71.
Boosters, whose purpose was to encourage and suppo
0.1 cu. ft. Community art club formed in 1950 as a chapter of the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. Sponsored monthly exhibits at the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute Library and brought Virginia Museum Artmobiles to
Blacksburg. Materials include programs and letters to members.
Ms87-045.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] STUDY GROUP. RECORDS, 1984-85. 0.5 cu.
ft.
Study group funded by the Blacksburg town council under the aegis of the
Townscape Committee to study the town's architecture and landscape,
inform town officials about present conditions, and make recommendations
for changes. Results were accumulated for a book,
Blacksburg-Understanding a Virginia Town: Town Architecture
(1986) by Donna Dunay. Records include architectural drawings, maps,
diagrams, and photographs used in the book. Ms87-008.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA]-VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE CIVILIAN
DEFENSE
COUNCIL. RECORDS, 1942-44. 0.2 cu. ft. A combined town-college
organization to promote the war effort on the home front during World War
II. Collection includes printed materials related to salvage drives and
the general war effort, and the Information Committee. Ms79-005.
BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA] WOMAN'S CLUB. RECORDS, 1907-1972. 7.0 cu. ft. Founded as the Women's Civic Betterment Club in 1907; disbanded in 1970. Involved in civic improvement projects including community beautification, public health, civil defense, charity and cultural programs. Records include correspondence, minutes, financial records, scrapbooks and printed material. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms63-002.
BLACKSTONE AND LUNENBURG RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1905-11. Ms81-007. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BLECHER, MARVIN. AUDIOCASSETTE TAPE, 1998. 1 item. Oral history interview conducted by Virginia Tech student Christina Roemer with Marvin and Freda Blecher of Blacksburg, Virginia, about their involvement in the Jewish community in the town and the Hillel student organization at Virginia Tech. Dr. Marvin Blecher served as faculty advisor for Hillel from 1973 to 1983. Also includes information about the Blacksburg Jewish Community Center and other Jewish communities in the region. Ms98-017.
BLIZNAKOV, MILKA T. (1927- ). ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS, 1978-
79.
0.5 cu. ft. Born in Bulgaria; architect of Blacksburg, Virginia, and
professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech. Founder
and former Chair of the Board of Advisors for the International Archive
of Women in Architecture. Papers consists of forty-three architectural
drawings drawn by her of her residence in Blacksburg. Ms91-025.
BLUE RIDGE AND ATLANTIC RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1908-09. Ms84-023. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOLKLIFE PROJECT. RECORDS, 1978-79. 14.0
cu.
ft. Oral history project conducted by the American Folklife Center in
cooperation with the National Park Service. Project surveyed folk
cultural traditions along the Blue Ridge Parkway, particularly along a
hundred-mile stretch from Rocky Knob, Virginia, to Doughton Park, North
Carolina. Field coordinator for the project was Charles K. Wolfe of
Middle Tennessee State University. Collection consists of taped
interviews, photographs, and field notes. Ms86-009.
BLUE STONE RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1881-84. Ms81-008. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BOATWRIGHT, CYNTHIA ADDINGTON (1898-1973). PAPERS, 1936-60.
1.0
cu. ft. Resident of Coeburn, Wise County, Virginia, active in civic,
church, and political organizations in the county and state. President
of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs, 1941-44. Member of the
Board of Visitors of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1944-49. Papers
consist of scrapbooks, photographs, news clippings, certificates, and
convention programs, mostly concerning the Virginia Federation of Women's
Clubs in the 1930s and 1940s. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms90-070.
BODELL, DOROTHY (1931- ). RESEARCH NOTES, 1850-1996. 0.8 cu.
ft. Resident and local historian of Blacksburg, Virginia. Collection
consists of photocopies of notes and files Bodell compiled while
researching her book Montgomery White Sulphur Springs: A History of the
Resort, Cemeteries, Markers, and Monument, published in 1993. Notes
include information about the resort's use as a Confederate hospital
during the Civil War, run by the Sisters of Charity of Our Lady of Mercy,
a religious order of Charleston, South Carolina. Also includes material
prepared for the 40th reunion of the Blacksburg High School class of 1948
(of which Bodell was a member). Inventory available. Ms88-042.
BOYNTON, HENRY B. (1899-1991). PAPERS, 1931-91. 4.0 cu. ft.
Architect of Roanoke, Virginia. Graduate of Virginia Tech (B.S. in
Agricultural Engineering, 1921; B.S. in Civil Engineering, 1923). With
Louis Smithey founded Smithey & Boynton, Architects and Engineers, in
Roanoke in 1935. Retired in 1982 but remained active in the firm until
1988. Member and President (1955) of the Virginia Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects. Member (1962-72) of the Virginia State
Registration Board for Architects, Professional Engineers and Land
Surveyors, and President in 1967. Papers consist of primarily financial
and administrative records from Smithey & Boynton, and awards and
certificates of honors bestowed upon Boynton. Inventory available. Ms92-002.
BROWN FAMILY. PAPERS, 1825-1912, 1965, n.d. 0.6 cu. ft. Montgomery County, Virginia, family; owners of a farm on the north fork of the Roanoke River. Collection consists of receipts, bills, correspondence, tax notes and other papers created between 1825 and 1912, with the bulk of the collection from 1850 to 1894, by members of the Brown family, particularly James Cartmill Brown (1828-1913), as they purchased services and goods from business people in the community. Inventory available. Ms90-011.
BROWN, GEORGE. TAX RECORDS BOOK, 1904-05, 1918-22. 1 vol.
Wythe
County, Virginia, clerk. Tax and church records. Ms40-002.
BROWN, RALPH MINTHORNE (1878-1958). PAPERS, 1925-44. 2.6 cu. ft.
Head librarian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1926-48). Compiler of
the V.P.I. HISTORICAL INDEX, 1872-1941, published as a VPI Bulletin in
1942. Papers include materials on VPI and local history (including notes
on the Wilderness Road and Blacksburg and Montgomery County, Virginia)
and transcribed documents on various topics for a history of VPI he
intended to write. Also included are Brown's ornithological and weather
observations in Blacksburg. Ms70-002.
BUCHANAN, VIRGINIA, TOWN OF. PHOTOGRAPHS, ca. 1890s. 8 items. Town located in Botetourt County, Virginia. Collection consists of photographs of Main Street, the Baptist Church, and businesses located in Buchanan, around the 1890s. Ms96-024.
BUCK CREEK RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1924-26. Ms81-009. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BUCKHORN COAL COMPANY. RECORDS, 1880-1961. 1.2 cu. ft.
Company
that owned coal lands in Russell and Buchanan counties in Virginia.
Records include ledgers (stock transfers and cash books); blueprint maps showing coal lands, leases, and tunnels; and prospectus and abstracts of leases. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms84-175.
BUFFALO LAND AND COAL COMPANY. RECORDS, 1903-18. Ms81-010. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
BURNS & BURNS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. RECORDS, 1871-1910, n.d. 2.0 cu. ft. Lawyers of Lebanon, Virginia, in Russell County. Records consist of case files, legal briefs, correspondence, circuit court petitions, and collection notices. Inventory available. Ms94-032.
CALDWELL AND NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1893-1910. Ms84-025. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CAPE FEAR AND YADKIN VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1879-99. Ms84-026. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CAPERTON FAMILY. PAPERS, 1861-62. 0.1 cu. ft. Collection
consists of transcripts of letters written by Mary Elizabeth Henderson
Caperton of Nelson County, Virginia, to her husband George Henry
Caperton, a soldier in the 1st Virginia Regiment of Mounted Volunteers
(also known as the 30th Virginia Volunteers Mounted) in the Civil War.
Mary Caperton wrote most of the letters from White Thorn, in Blacksburg,
American Institute of Architects. Member
Virginia, while staying with Sarah Ann Caperton Preston, her husband's
sister, while her husband served in the Confederate Army. She writes of
various members of the Preston family, fears that the slaves will rise up
in rebellion, and Dr. Harvey Black. Collections also includes a copy of
George Caperton's diary written in late 1861 while he was ill.
Ms91-034.
CARETTA RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1906-10. Ms81-011. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CARPENTER, HENRY C. (d. 1864). LETTERS, 1862-64. 0.1 cu. ft.
Born in Bland County, Virginia. Corporal in Company H, 45th Virginia
Infantry in the Civil War. Papers consist of seven letters from
Carpenter to his sister Elizabeth, written between February 1862 and June
1864 while encamped in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia; Monroe
County, West Virginia; Saltville, Virginia; and Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Participated in the Battle of Cloyd's Farm in May 1864. Died in
Woodstock, Virginia, on October 6, 1864. Transcripts available. Ms96-008.
CASSELL, CHARLES WILLIS FAMILY. PAPERS, ca. 1883-1950. 4.2 cu. ft. Wythe County, Virginia, Lutheran minister, compiler of History of the Lutheran Church in Virginia and East Tennessee (1930). Cassell’s personal, professional, and business correspondence; the personal correspondence of his wife and children; financial and legal records; diaries; notes on "catechetics;" scrapbooks containing historical sketches of various Lutheran Churches, obituaries, family-related social events and newspaper clippings concerning Cassell’s services as pastor; and printed materials. Finding
aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms84-170.
A CENTER FOR CIVIC ACTIVITY IN THE TOWN OF BLACKSBURG: A
DESIGN
COMPETITION, 1992-94. 0.2 cu. ft. A design competition sponsored by
American Institute of Architects. Member
the town of Blacksburg, Virginia, and the College of Architecture and
Urban Studies of Virginia Tech which focused on a new town center.
Solicitation of submissions began in 1992 and the winner was decided the
following year. Materials include brochures about the competition
listing winners, committee members, jurors, calendar, entrants, and
competition managers, with the jury report; a poster advertising and
soliciting submissions to the competition, a competition site plan
showing existing conditions, and an article from CAUS News (Winter 1994)
with an article about the competition. Ms95-013.
CHARLTON FAMILY. LETTER, 1861. 0.1 cu. ft. Waddy C. Charlton (1839-1920), Montgomery County, Virginia native and soldier in the 4th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Photocopy of letter to Charlton from unidentified brother in Christiansburg, Virginia. Mentions family matters, local crop conditions, the local movement of troops aboard trains, the prospects of a Confederate invasion of Washington D.C. and Maryland, and military activities in northwestern Virginia. Part of the Civil War Small Manuscripts Collection. Ms2003-014.
CHARLTON FAMILY. PAPERS, 1861-1902. 0.2 cu. ft. Christiansburg,
Virginia, family. Four members were in Company G, 4th Virginia Infantry
("Montgomery Fencibles," part of the "Stonewall Brigade") in the Civil
War. Papers include correspondence among various family members
(1861-64), company muster rolls, and genealogical information.
Transcripts available. Ms80-001.
CHATTANOOGA AND TENNESSEE RIVER BRIDGE COMPANY. RECORDS, 1887-90. Ms84-030. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CHATTANOOGA UNION RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1884-95. Ms84-031. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CHILHOWIE MILLING COMPANY. CORRESPONDENCE, 1917. 0.2 cu. ft.
Smyth County, Virginia, makers of flour and meal. Correspondence
includes orders from Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company and the Norfolk
and Western Railway Company. Ms89-086.
CHOATE FAMILY. CORRESPONDENCE, 1862-64. 0.1 cu. ft. Allegheny
County, North Carolina, brothers--William T., S.J., and J.W.--who served
for the Confederacy in the Civil War. William enlisted in Company I,
61st North Carolina Regiment, and S.J. and J.W. enlisted in Company F,
22nd North Carolina Regiment. All died in the war. Papers consist of
photocopies of the thirty-two letters written among the brothers to each
other and to Martha Choate, wife of William. Includes a letter to Martha
from James Radcliffe, informing her of her husband's death.
Ms85-016.
CHRISTIANSBURG INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE [CHRISTIANSBURG,
VIRGINIA].
HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS, 1866-1991. 0.4 cu. ft. Founded in 1866 by Civil
War Union Captain Charles S. Shaeffer as a primary school for freed
blacks. Supported by the Friends Freedmen's Association of Philadelphia
(a Quaker organization). In 1896 Booker T. Washington reorganized the
school into a program that gave technical training to black boys. CII
was transferred to a 185-acre farm in 1905. In 1934 the Montgomery
County School Board began its management of the school, and by 1947 it
was converted to a regional high school for blacks in the local area. In
bridge (or bridges) across the
bri1966 CII closed when the local schools were integrated. Collection
consists of photocopies of historical documents and records of CII's
history, compiled by Amanda De Hart of Pulaski, Virginia, an alumna of
CII and the archivist for the school's alumni organization. Included in
the documents are copies of the papers (consisting mostly of handwritten
drafts of speeches, lectures, and sermons) of Edgar A. Long, principal of
CII from 1905 to 1924. The collections also includes copies of school
catalogs (1902-03, 1925-26), an annual report (1908), and writings of
alumnae. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.
Ms91-033.
CHRISTIANSBURG [VIRGINIA] PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. MINUTE
BOOK,
1869-97. 1 vol. Minutes of session, written by congregational
secretaries R.D. Montague, Jno. R. Johnson, and Daniel Blain. Includes a
list of members, the time when they were admitted to the Church, and
their date of death. Ms84-179.
CINCINNATI AND EASTERN TELEGRAPH COMPANY. RECORDS, 1877-1902. Ms81-012. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CINCINNATI, NEW ORLEANS AND TEXAS PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1882-1908. Ms84-032. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CLAYTON RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1881. Ms84-035. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CLAYTOR, W. GRAHAM (1886-1971). PAPERS, 1907-55. 3.0 cu. ft.
Electrical engineer and electrical utilities industry executive.
Graduated in 1906 from Virginia Tech, Claytor was an executive with the
Roanoke (Virginia) Railway and Electric Company and the American Electric
Power Company. At the time of his retirement in 1954, Claytor was
executive vice-president of the American Gas and Electric Corporation and
vice-president of Appalachian Power Company. Claytor Lake, APCO's
hydroelectric project on the New River, was named after him. Collection
includes correspondence with political, business, and industrial figures;
22nd North Carolina Regiment. All died in the war. Papers
files on civic affairs; copies of speeches; and files on the Virginia
Tech Alumni Association and Virginia Tech Educational Foundation.
Ms81-095.
CLEAR FORK AND OCEANA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1907-29. Ms81-015. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CLENDENING, ABRAM (d. 1864). LETTERS, 1863-67. 0.1 cu. ft. Six letters from or about Clendening and his brothers, all soldiers in the Union Army in the Civil War. Clendening and his family were from Mill Creek, (West) Virginia, but he and his brothers emigrated to Ohio when they refused to fight for the Confederacy. Clendening enlisted in the 5th Ohio Sharpshooters in December 1863. He died in May 1864 from a gunshot wound at Hallowell's Landing, Alabama. Letters by Clendening focus on his reasons for not fighting with the Confederacy, and after his death the letters by friends and family focus on his death and the location of his grave. Transcripts available. Ms91-067.
COALBURG COAL AND COKE COMPANY. RECORDS, 1883-86. Ms84-036. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
COFFEE FAMILY. LAND GRANT, 1800. 1 item. Grant for 730 acres in
Montgomery County, Virginia, signed by James Monroe as governor of
Virginia to Robert, James, and Samuel Coffee. Ms86-018.
COOPER, BYRON NELSON (1912-71). PAPERS, 1946-71. 5.0 cu. ft.
Professor of Geology and eventually head of the Geological Sciences
Department from 1946-71 at Virginia Tech. Graduated with B.S. from
DePauw University in 1934, received an M.S. from University of Iowa in
1935 and his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1937. Collection
contains correspondence, papers, lectures, etc., on Southwest Virginia
geology and mineral development. Ms73-004.
COWAN, JOHN T. (1840-1929). PAPERS, 1887-1917. 0.1 cu. ft.
Born in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Member of the original board of
trustees for the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now
Virginia Tech). Served as a major for the Confederacy in the Civil War
and represented Montgomery County, Virginia, in the legislature. Raised
shorthorn cattle in Whitehorn, Virginia. Papers consists of pages from
an account book, bills, notes, and correspondence relating to his
personal and business affairs. Ms69-005.
COX, A.B. MANUSCRIPT, 1900. 0.1 cu. ft. Typed manuscript of
Foot Prints In The Sands Of Time: A History Of South-Western Virginia
And North-Western North Carolina, written in 1900 by Cox. Copy was typed
from Cox's book by Mrs. Alfred Apple of Bedford, Indiana. Ms89-038.
CRAIG HEALING SPRINGS [CRAIG COUNTY, VIRGINIA.] LETTERS,
1924.
0.1 cu. ft. Typescript copies of seventy-five letters from the
management of a resort hotel in Craig County, Virginia, about
reservations, accomodations, and the restorative powers of the spring
water, to potential guests and other resorts. Ms90-078.
CROCKETT, J.W. PAPERS, 1890. 0.1 cu. ft. Papers consist of a
broadside, "The Center as Conservative Balance," and an unstamped
Congressional cover from George C. Cabell to Crockett of Floyd County,
Virginia. Ms86-010.
CROCKETT, ROBERT. INVENTORY, 1815. 0.1 cu. ft. Wythe County,
Virginia, land and slave owner. Inventory of Crockett's property and
slaves. Ms88-076.
CROWN COTTON MILLS [DALTON, GEORGIA]. ORAL HISTORY TAPES,
1984-85. 19 tapes. Oral history tapes of employees at the Crown Cotton
Mills in Dalton, a textile town in the Appalachian Valley of northwest
Georgia. Most of mill hands interviewed worked for Crown from the
1920s-1960s. All interviews conducted by J. Douglas Flamming, history
professor at Virginia Tech, in 1984-85. Restricted access.
Ms88-023.
CROY FAMILY. PAPERS, 1859-1938. 0.5 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia family. Includes papers of the Croy and related families (especially the Dawson and Pepper families) of Montgomery County, Virginia. Includes correspondence, financial records, diaries, artifacts and photographs. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Images from the album are available on the VT Imagebase. Ms2001-018.
CRUSH, CHARLES W. PAPERS, 1795-1946. 1.0 cu. ft. Montgomery
County, Virginia, judge and local historian, author of The
Montgomery County Story (1957). Papers include Crush's files on
Confederate gravesites in Montgomery County (1931-38); Montgomery County
a
World War II casualties (1941-46); Company 161, Virginia Reserve Militia
(1944-45); and the 150th anniversary of Christiansburg, Virginia (1945).
Also includes bills from Montgomery County businesses (1809-80); a ledger
book of James Hoge; lists of "tithables" (1799-1813); and typescript
copies of court house records of Montgomery and Fincastle counties from
the late 1700s. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms84-180.
CUMBERLAND GAP CONSTRUCTION COMPANY. RECORDS, 1887-96. Ms84-040. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CUMBERLAND RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1902-25. Ms84-041. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
CUMBERLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1902-44. Ms84-042. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
DAN VALLEY AND YADKIN RIVER NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1880-83.Ms84-044. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
DANVILLE, MOCKSVILLE AND SOUTHWESTERN RAILROAD
COMPANY. RECORDS, 1880-99. Ms84-045. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
DEEPWATER RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1898-1921. Ms81-017. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
DICKINSON FAMILY. PAPERS, 1888-1931. 0.8 cu. ft. Marion, Smyth
County, Virginia, family. Papers consist of seven medical account books
of S.W. Dickinson, a physician, and seventy-two letters from his son,
Ralph Dickinson, to the family primarily when stationed with the U.S.
Army in Alaska and Washington state. Ms89-094.
DICKSON FAMILY. PAPERS, 1769-1930. 2.0 cu. ft. Pioneer settlers
in Greenbrier County, Virginia (now West Virginia). Papers include
financial accounts, bonds, correspondence, legal papers, diaries, slave
documents, and bills of sale for property of four generations of the
family. Collection also includes papers dealing with the construction of
the family home, Locust Hill (later called Mountain Home). Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms88-094.
DILLARD, MARTHA. AUDIOCASSETTE TAPES, 1992. 0.2 cu. ft. Oral history interviews (3 on 3 cassette tapes) conducted by artist Martha Dillard in connection with "Watershed," an exhibition of Dillard√É,Ä¢s paintings of the Ellett Valley in Montgomery County, Virginia. Interviewees include T. Cartmel and Liz Brown, Anna Laura Tribble, and Josie Shotts about the valley of the North Fork of the Roanoke River. Collection also includes postcards and flyers relating to the exhibition. Interviews untranscribed, notes available. Ms98-027.
DILLON, ELLETT & COMPANY. LEDGERS, 1871-99. 1.0 cu. ft. Company
that produced limestone and related items in Indian Rock, Botetourt
County, Virginia. Ledgers include a cash accounts book, a journal, and a
day book. Ms86-011.
D'INVILLIERS, EDWARD. REPORT, 1905. 0.1 cu. ft. Typescript
carbon copy of a geological report on the Virginia Anthracite Coal
Company property, Price and Brush Mountains in Montgomery County,
Virginia, by d'Invilliers, geologist and mining engineer of Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Ms59-002.
DOUGHERTY, JOHN. PAPERS, 1796. 0.1 cu. ft. Wythe County,
Virginia, militia compensation note, paid to Dougherty. Signed by James
Thompson. Ms88-055.
DOUGLAS LAND COMPANY. RECORDS, 1880-1923. Obsolete title. See HURT, WILLIAM W. PAPERS. Ms92-025.
DRAPER MERCANTILE COMPANY. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1908-23. 4 vols.
Pulaski County, Virginia, general store. Customer accounts.
Ms40-005.
DUDLEY, H.C. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1910-24. 4 vols. Montgomery County,
Virginia, general store, saw mill, and lime kiln merchant. Customer
accounts. Ms40-007.
DUNCAN, LANDON (1786-1867). LETTERS, 1812-37, n.d. 6 items. Giles County,
Virginia, minister, teacher, and Commissioner of the Revenue. Collection consists of five
letters from Duncan to his uncle Alamander Duncan and cousin Hiram Duncan in Stokes
County, North Carolina. In the letters Duncan writes about the draft laws passed by the
Virginia legislature for the War of 1812, the prices of basic goods such as pork and corn,
and the nature of God's grace and his own faith. One of the letters was written by Jane H.
Threves of Gallatin, Tennessee, to her cousin Hiram Duncan. Inventory and transcripts available. Ms97-023.
EARLY, JUBAL A. (1816-94). LETTER, 1872. 0.1 cu. ft.
Confederate general in the Civil War. Born in Franklin County, Virginia,
and was a Lynchburg, Virginia, resident most of his life. Published
A Memoir of the Last Year of the War for Independence In the
Confederate States of America (1866). Collection consists of a
letter written by Early to General William H. Payne of Warrenton,
Virginia, about the appointment of General Lunsford Lindsay Lomax to the
the family home, Locust Hill (later called MountainPresidency of Virginia
Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia
Tech) in Blacksburg. Ms55-005.
EAST RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1881-82. Ms81-019. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
EAST TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1848-69. Ms84-047. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
EAST TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1849-70. Ms84-048. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1870-86. Ms84-049. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
EAST TENNESSEE, VIRGINIA AND GEORGIA RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1886-95. Ms84-050. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
EDMINTON, ROBERT. INVENTORY, 1815. 0.1 cu. ft. Washington
County, Virginia, land and slave owner. Inventory of value of land,
farm, and slaves. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms88-077.
EGGLESTON, JOSEPH D. (1867-1953). PAPERS, 1913-19. 6.0 cu. ft.
President of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1913-19). Educated at
Hampden Sydney College; later its President. Virginia state
superintendent of public instruction (1906-13). Papers consist of
correspondence concerning mostly VPI, but also many other subjects, such
as Agricultural High Schools, rural economic development, and the U.S.
War Department. Also includes correspondence with state and national
figures, including N.E. Clement, W.H. Mann, James Ray, and Claude A.
Swanson. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. RG2/7.
ELLETT FAMILY. PAPERS, 1865-1961. 0.2 cu. ft. Montgomery
County, Virginia, family. Papers consist of thirty-five items of
correspondence (1865-67) from Dr. Robert Thaddeus Ellett (1826-1904), who
served as an assistant surgeon in White Sulphur Springs, Virginia, for
the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, to Sue French of
Pearisburg, Virginia, who later became his wife; and his medical accounts
book (1867-72). Collection also includes genealogical information about
Company.
the Ellett and French families in the form of photographs, newsclippings,
and essays. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms88-047.
ELLETT, ANNA BURTON (1886-1974). PAPERS, 1750-1851, 1932. 0.2
cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia, resident, active in the Daughters of the
American Revolution, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia
Antiquities, and local historical activities. Collection includes
correspondence, accounts, and military documents relating to Colonel
James Patton (3 items, 1754-97), Captain John Preston (4 items, 1792),
Colonel William Preston (6 items, 1771-83), and General JohnPreston (3
items, 1814-25). Also includes articles, music, papers, and books
commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth (1932).
Ms74-010.
EMOND, JAMES C.V. PAPERS, 1841-1987. 4.5 cu. ft. Carroll
County, Virginia, resident, and minister of Fairlawn Church of Christ in
the 1970s. Files consist of photographs; maps; newspapers and news
clippings of local papers, including the Carroll News;
correspondence; and research notes created or collected by Emond while
doing research on the history of Carroll County. Also includes financial
statements and sermon programs from Fairlawm Church of Christ, copies of
papers documenting the county's formation (1841), materials on the county
before white settlers arrived in the area and during the Civil War, and
information about the Galax "Old Fiddler's Annual Convention."
Unprocessed. Ms91-026.
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA. RECORDS, 1919-
90.
98.4 cu. ft. Diocese created from the Diocese of Southern Virginia in
1919, covering those parts of Virginia south and west of Nelson, Amherst,
and Campbell counties, with administrative headquarters in Roanoke.
Records include correspondence of Bishops Robert C. Jett (1920-38), Henry
D. Phillips (1938-54), and William H. Marmion (1954-79); reports from
various churches, parishes, and mountain missions; diocesan financial
information; lists of offical acts (baptisms, confirmations); typescript
histories of churches; and photographs. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms85-004.
FARADAY, RICHARD. FORMULA BOOK, ca. 1816. 0.1 cu. ft. Photocopy
of a formula book for making lead shot at the Shot Tower in Wythe County,
Virginia. Includes genealogical notes on Faraday's family. Transcript
available. Ms84-177.
FARRIER FAMILY. PAPERS, 1894-1972. 60.0 cu. ft. Martin P.
(1869-1946) and his son, Andrew L. (?-1972) Farrier, lawyers in
Pearisburg, Giles County, Virginia. Each was a trial lawyer and each
served in the Virginia General Assembly. As a law firm they individually
commemorating the 200th anniversary of George Wa
and collectively represented some of the most important industries in
Southwest Virginia, including the Norfolk and Western Railway,
Appalachian Power Company, and several coal and lumber interests.
Collection includes copies of deeds, title searches, land estate matters,
correspondence; and research notes created or collected by Emond
loan contracts, divorce suits, small claims collection suits ledgers, and
correspondence. Ms74-011.
FRAZER, G. PRESTON. ARTWORK, 1940s and 1950s. 22 sketches and
drawings. Artist and former professor of architecture at Virginia Tech.
statements and sermon programs from Fairl
Collection consists of twenty-two sketches and drawings done by Frazer of
nudes and scenes of Blacksburg, Virginia, and the southwest Virginia
region. Ms92-055.
FERGUSON, GEORGE L. LETTERS, 1918-19. 0.1 cu. ft. Letters
written from Ferguson on active service with the American Expeditionary
Force immediately after World War I in France and Scotland, to Julia
Harvey Ingles of Dublin and Abingdon, Virginia. Unprocessed.
Ms87-043.
FISHBURN, JUNIUS BLAIR (1865-1955). PAPERS, 1940-47. 0.1 cu. ft.
Roanoke, Virginia, banker and vice president of the Time-World
Corporation. Papers include a typescript report (1940) by A. Murrill,
mining engineer, on the Fishburn Price Mountain coal property in
Montgomery County, Virginia, and a letter (1947) by Fishburn to John H.
of a formula book for making lead
Jones of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the property. Ms58-001.
FISHWICK, JOHN PALMER (1916- ). PAPERS, 1974-81. 5.0 cu. ft.
Railroad executive and lawyer; born in Roanoke, Virginia. President and
Chief Executive Officer of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company
(1970-80). Member of the Board of Directors for the Virginia Foundation
for the Humanities. Papers include correspondence; speeches; testimonies
for the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, and other
federal committees; minutes; memoranda; Legislation-status reports; and
reports and other materials from the Organization of American Railroads.
Unprocessed. Ms87-053.
FITZPATRICK, FRANCIS BURKE. PAPERS, 1937. 0.1 cu. ft. Unbound
typescript copy of History of Ingles Ferry, Virginia (1936)
by Fitzpatrick of Radford State Teacher's College. Ms37-001.
FLANARY, C.F. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1871-1908. 9 vols. Wise County,
Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts, 1871-1908.
Ms40-008.
FLOYD COUNTY [VIRGINIA] HISTORICAL SOCIETY. RECORDS, ca.
1880-1986. Obsolete title. See WEST, RUBY
BISHOP COLLECTION. Ms86-002.
FLOYD COURTHOUSE CHAPTER, NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. RECORDS, 1935-2004. 0.5 cu. ft. Floyd, Virginia chapter of women's volunteer service organization. Minutes, yearbooks and annual reports. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database.. Ms2005-008.
FLOYD, JOHN BUCHANAN (1806-63). LETTER, 1861. 0.1 cu. ft., 1
item. Major general of the Virginia state troops in the Civil War.
Born in Montgomery County, Virginia. Governor of Virginia, 1848-52.
Secretary of War, 1857-60. Commissioned a Confederate brigadier general
in May 1861 and served in the West Virginia campaign under Gen. Robert E.
Lee. Commissioned a major general in March 1862. Letter written from
Camp Jackson in Wytheville, Virginia, to L.P. Walker. Concerns a West
Point cadet, B.A. Tirrett(?) from Louisiana, who wanted a position as a
Confederate officer. Ms89-015.
FOSTER, SAMUEL D. LETTER, 1864. 0.1 cu. ft. 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. Ms90-001.
FOWLKES, HENRY M. (1830-87). LETTERS, 1863-65. 0.1 cu. ft.
Resident of Chesterfield and Montgomery counties in Virginia. Collection
consists of two letters from Fowlkes to his children. The first was
written in Winter Park, Chesterfield County, on October 6, 1863, to his
young daughters, describing his life with and the death of his recently
deceased wife. The second was written on October 12, 1865, from
Greenhead, Montgomery County, as a farewell before what he believed would
be his death. Transcripts available. Ms80-004.
FRANCIS, HENRY. CORRESPONDENCE, 1898. 0.1 cu. ft. 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. Ms89-005.
FRIES [VIRGINIA] TEXTILE PLANT. RECORDS, ca. 1900-1988. ca. 130
li. ft. Town and textile plant in Grayson County, Virginia, founded in
1903 by Col. Francis Henry Fries, and operated successively by
Washington Mills, the Rigel Textile Company, and the Mount Vernon
Corporation. The plant was closed in 1988. Materials include
correspondence, ledgers, production records, employee records, and other
items documenting the history of the town and plant. Partially processed; partial inventory available
online. Ms89-039.
FUGATE, HENLEY (1843-1913). BUSINESS RECORDS, 1881-1913. 3.0
cu.
records of deaths, marriages, and births of Fl
ft. Abingdon, Virginia, businessman whose concerns included a lumber
company, a coal company, and a proposed hydro-electric power plant on the
Holston River. Records include letter files, copy books and account
books for the Trigg, Fugate and Company lumber business (1881-96);
correspondence for the Fugate lumber business (1902-08); and financial
records, annual statements, and correspondence (1909-13) for the Raven
Ash Coal Company. Ms78-007.
FULTON, REID STANGER (1886-ca. 1984). PAPERS, 1900-76. 0.2 cu.
ft. Economist and book collector; educated at University of Virginia and
Columbia University. Taught at Drake University, Columbia University,
and the City University of New York. Papers include correspondence,
contracts and clippings about Max Meadows, Virginia, and Fulton;
manuscripts, economics course materials and articles; and miscellany such
be his death.
as securities, a commencement address, and a short story ("It is Our
Turn," signed M.S.C.). Ms78-010.
GALE, CHARLOTTE D. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, 1898-1900. 1 vol.
Roanoke,
Virginia, resident. Photograph album compiled by Gale of scenes in
Roanoke, Salem, and Norfolk, Virginia. Ms90-044.
GARDENER, W.W. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1918. 1 vol. Montgomery County,
County, Virginia, general store merchant.
Customer accounts, 1918.
Ms40-011.
GARDNER, C.B. TREASURY LEDGER, 1863-64. 0.1 cu. ft. 100 pages.
Notebook with accounts kept by "Dr. C.B. Gardner Depository of the
Treasury in a/c with the Treasury of the Confederate States"
Christiansburg, Virginia, giving date of deposit, by whom deposited, kind
plant wasclosed i
of stock, and amount. Also gives a "list showing the names of persons to
whom certificates were given for treasury notes deposited for funding
under the Act of 17th Febry 1864" giving date of deposit, name of
depositor, number of certificates, and amount. Ms84-001.
GARNETT, WILLIAM E. (1886-1970). PAPERS, 1936-69, n.d. 0.1 cu.
ft. Professor of Rural Sociology (1925-56) at the Agricultural
Experiment Station at Virginia Tech Helped establish the Virginia
Agriculture Conference Board and the Virginia Medical and Health Care
Council. Papers consist of field notes, surveys, reports, class notes,
letters to the editors of Montgomery County, Virginia, newspapers, and
reprints of publications. Ms73-011.
GIESEN, CHARLOTTE C. PAPERS, 1987. 0.1 cu. ft. Republican member
of Virginia House of Delegates from Montgomery County (1957-61).
Collection consists of a taped interview (April 1987) of Giesen, by
Samantha J. Hall, a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, with a history paper on Giesen prepared by Hall.
Ms87-009.
GOODWIN, W.O. & CO. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1896-1916. 2 vols. Roanoke
County, Virginia, general store. Customer accounts, 1896-1916.
Ms40-012.
GRAHAM, D.P. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1880-84. 1 vol. Wythe County,
Virginia, merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-009.
GRAHAM, W.H. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1931-32. 2 vols. Radford,
Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts, 1931-32.
Ms40-010.
GRAHAM AND ROBINSON. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1869-73. 1 vol. Wythe
County, Virginia general store. Customer accounts. Ms78-013.
GRAVES, JEREMIAH WHITE (1801-78?). DIARY, 1820-78. 0.1 cu. ft.
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, farmer. Collection consists of a
microfilm copy of Graves's extensive diary and a typescript manuscript of
selected transcribed passages from the diary. Graves refers to his
farmwork, the sale of Negroes in the area, and his children's schooling.
During the Civil War years Graves mentions the fighting and the war's
end. After the war he comments that Negroes could vote while he could
not. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms90-033.
GRAY, FLOYD (1867-1941). PAPERS, 1895-1908. 0.5 cu. ft. Bedford County Republican Committee chairman and distillery general storekeeper-gauger for the Internal Revenue Service. Includes correspondence and notes relating both to Gray's political activities and his civil service work. Also includes personal correspondence and financial records. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.Ms89-085.
GREENVILLE AND FRENCH BROAD RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1874. Ms84-068. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
GUYANDOT AND TUG RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1903-33. Ms81-020. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
HAGER, ANNE JUDKINS. PAPERS, 1828-1990, n.d. 2.6 cu. ft.
Genealogical researcher, and collector of her family papers. Papers
consist of the files, books, and newspaper clippings gathered by Hager
and other family members on the Preston family of southwest Virginia
(particularly the Abingdon branch), and other associated families that
intermarried with the Prestons. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms95-008.
HAGER, GEORGE H. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1913-25. 16 vols. Wythe
County,
Virginia, general store merchant. Ledgers and order books.
Ms40-013.
HALE, RUTH G. PAPERS, ca. 1984-87. 0.1 cu. ft. Roanoke,
Virginia, resident. Papers consist of a copy of "Montgomery County
Cemeteries" by Hale, listing markings on gravestones in cemeteries in
Montgomery County, Virginia. Ms89-037.
HANSARD, A.C.M.A. LETTER, 1865. 0.1 cu. ft. Civil War homefront
letter written February 24, 1865, from Tazewell, Claiborne County,
Tennessee. Hansard writes to her family about the lack of available
meat, robberies in the area, and a recent local revival meeting.
Ms89-097.
HARKRADER PRODUCE COMPANY. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1924-36. 3
vols.
Montgomery County, Virginia, company. Customer accounts. Ms40-014.
HARMAN, EDWIN HOUSTON (1835-64). CORRESPONDENCE, 1856-64.
0.2
cu. ft. Lieutenant Colonel in Company H, 45th Virginia Infantry, in the
Civil War. Born in Tazewell County, Virginia; enlisted in May 1861 as a
captain. Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in May 1862. Killed in action
at Cloyd's Farm, Virginia, in May 1864. Collection consists of ca. 300
letters to and from Harman in various camps in southwest Virginia and his
wife. Transcripts available. Ms90-019.
HARRIS MOUNTAIN SCHOOLS. PAPERS, 1913-61. 0.1 cu. ft.
Presbyterian mission schools in Floyd, Montgomery, and Franklin counties,
Virginia. Schools included Shooting Creek, Ferrum; Cannaday,
Chistiansburg; Buffalo Mountain, Sylvatus; Pippen Hill, Boone's Mill;
Taylor's Mountain, Thaxton; Cave Mountain, Greenlee; Algoma, Boone's
Mill; and Franklin, Christiansburg. Includes act of incorporation or the
Schools (1913); correspondence (1947-61) to Rev. R.G. See, President of
the Board of Advisors, and Rev. G.A. Wilson; histories of the school; a
brochure about John Kellogg Harris, after whom the school is named; and a
intermarried with the Preston
copy of the "Montgomery Mountain Missionary" (1925) containing articles
on the Schools and the Presbyterian home mission. Ms61-001.
HAYES, CARL N. "NEIGHBOR AGAINST NEIGHBOR, BROTHER AGAINST BROTHER: GREENE COUNTY IN THE CIVIL WAR," [1966?] 0.1 cu. ft. Photocopy of typescript collection of information regarding the Civil War in Greene County, Tennessee. Part of the Civil War Small Manuscripts Collection. Ms2003-014.
HICKMAN FAMILY. NEWSLETTERS and PAPERS, 1995-98. 0.1 cu. ft. Family newsletters written by H. William Gabriel of Florence, Montana, about his research into the history of the Hickman family of Back Creek, Bath County, Virginia. Includes extensive information about William P. Hickman (1810-64), a Presbyterian preacher who ministered to congregations in Wythe, Pulaski, and Montgomery counties, Virginia, until his death in May 1864, fighting with the Confederate forces at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain during the Civil War. Ms98-007.
HIDDEN HISTORY: THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN THE ROANOKE
VALLEY.
CASSETTE TAPES AND TRANSCRIPTS, 1992. 1.5 cu. ft. Oral history project
designed to interview African-American residents of Roanoke, Virginia, on
the cultural, social, and political history of blacks in the city.
Collection consists of approximately sixty-five interviews. Transcripts
available for each interview. Ms92-049.
HILL, HENRY HARRIS (1880-1954). PAPERS, 1908-51, n.d. 0.4 cu. ft.
Born in Scottsville, Virginia. Received B.S. (1907) and M.S. (1909) in
chemistry from Virginia Tech. Became chemist in 1907 for the Virginia
Agricultural Experiment Station and eventually head of the Agricultural
Chemistry department at Virginia Tech before retiring in 1950. Hill was
an elder of the Presbyterian Church in Blacksburg, Virginia, and
executive secretary of the VPI Alumni Association. Papers include
personal, biographical, and genealogical materials, papers about the
Civil War and Virginia Tech, and material on Blacksburg and Montgomery
County. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms80-003.
HITE, S. P. AND COMPANY. DRUGGIST'S LEDGER, 1905-09. 1 vol.
Roanoke, Virginia, druggist, manufacturer of a pain reliever. Ledger
shows shipments and customers, costs, and discounts. Ms87-005.
HIWASSEE RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1836-48. Ms84-075. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
HOGE FAMILY. PAPERS, 1781, 1817, 1848, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Early
Southwest Virginia settlers. Papers consist of a letter (n.d.) from
James Hoge (1732-1812) to John Preston (1764-1827) of Richmond and later
Montgomery County, concerning the settlement of an account, and a
certificate, dated September 10, 1781, entitling Hoge to 130 acres of
land in Montgomery County that he settled on in 1769. Also includes a
letter, dated March 6, 1817, to Hoge's son, General James Hoge
(1783-1861) concerning land in Russell County to be sold for non-payment
of taxes. Also includes a survey plat (1848) for General Hoge's 3,000
acres on Back Creek in Pulaski County, Virginia. Ms92-045.
HOGE, WILLIAM EDWARD. FAMILY PAPERS, 1810-1933. 1.2 cu. ft. Letters and deeds from the Hoge family describing life in southwest Virginia in the 1800s. Includes descriptions of their daily life, experiences with family sickness and death, and the Civil War. Also includes financial papers and genealogical research of the early settlers of southwest Virginia. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms2003-019.
HOLDEN, ROY J. (1870-1945). PAPERS, 1904-45. 6.0 cu. ft.
Professor of Geology and Mineralogy (1905-42) at Virginia Tech. Papers
include field notes, charts and maps, and geological surveys and research
results, covering the history of mineralogy and geology, especially in
Virginia, including work at the Virginia Tech Engineering Experiment
Station. In addition to detailed materials on iron ores in Virginia,
especially west of the Blue Ridge Mountains, there are reports on mines
and furnaces in twenty-five counties of the state. Ms82-014.
HOLSTON RIVER RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1906-08. Ms84-076. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
HOOVER, HERBERT (1874-1964). DEED, 1932. 0.1 cu. ft.
Thirty-first President of the United States (1929-33). Born in West
Branch, Iowa; educated at Stanford University (1891-95). Collection
includes a deed of trust of Hoover and his wife, Lou Henry, and William
E. Carson, Trustee, for land in Madison County, Virginia, to become part
Southwest
of the Shenandoah National Park. Deed signed by Notary Public Nelson
Webster. Ms79-006.
HOWARD COLLIERY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1903-18. Ms81-021. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
HOWARD LAND COMPANY. RECORDS, 1910-18. Ms81-022. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
HUDDLE FAMILY. PAPERS, ca. 1890-1970. 6.0 cu. ft. Charles Ross
Professor of
Huddle and his son Charles Richard Huddle, mining engineers in Ivanhoe,
Virginia, who served in various capacities with the National Carbide
Company; Ivanhoe Mining and Smelting Corporation (formerly the Ivanhoe
Furnace Company); New River Mineral Company; and Sand Mountain Sand
Corporation. Papers include personal and business correspondence of the
Huddles, W.F. Rupp (business manager of the Ivanhoe Furnace Company's
home office in Pittsburgh), and A.B. Daily (chief executive officer of
Ivanhoe Mining and Smelting Corporation); reports; business ledgers;
employee records; deeds; blueprints; and ca. 300 photographs of Ivanhoe
and the businesses with which the Huddles were associated. Unprocessed.
Ms89-084.
HUFF-HYLTON FAMILIES. PAPERS, 1803-14, 1858-82, 1975, n.d. 39 items. Settlers of Montgomery (now Floyd) County, Virginia, in the late 1700s and early 1800s. Collection consists of letters and other family papers of gathered by Barbara Ellen Huff Hylton Dillion (1828-1911), including promissory notes, fines, and an indenture for land of Samuel Huff, and letters written by Barbara's first husband Lorenzo Dow Hylton during the Civil War. Lorenzo Hylton (1830-64) served in Company D of the 54th Virginia Infantry, and died on February 13, 1864, in a Confederate hospital in Marietta, Georgia. Inventory available. Ms98-001.
HUMMEL, VIRGINIA HOLDEN (1916-98). PAPERS, 1830-1998. 3.0 cu. ft. Resident of and teacher in Blacksburg, Virginia, and amateur historian of Blacksburg and Appalachian history. Collection consists of newspaper clippings, research notes, photographs, maps, and genealogical information concerning the history of Blacksburg and its founders and notable residents. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms98-014.
HUNT FAMILY. PAPERS, 1760-1933. 1 roll of microfilm.
Pittsylvania County, Virginia, family. Papers include letters
(1850-1922), business records and receipts (1806-1933), landsale notices
and memoranda (1841-94), wills (1791-1906), and other family papers on
one roll of microfilm. Ms90-034.
HURT, WILLIAM W. PAPERS, 1860-1929. 0.7 cu. ft. Businessman of Smyth and Washington counties, Virginia. General manager of the Douglas Land Company. Deeds, leases and other business and legal documents pertaining to Douglas Land Company and several other enterprises operating in Smyth County, Virginia, together with Hurt's personal financial papers. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms92-025
IAGER AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1898-1912. Ms81-023. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ST. LUKE. RECORDS, 1877-1970. 1.1 cu. ft. Charter
Established in 1867 as a life insurance organization for blacks. The
Virginia chapter was organized in 1914 and headquartered in Richmond.
Records consist of handbooks, correspondence, receipts, programs,
membership records, annual reports, and assessment reports of the Order,
collected primarily by members in Blacksburg, Virginia. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms88-121.
INGLES FAMILY. COLLECTION, 1797-1823. 0.6 cu. ft. Ferry Hill Ledger (1797-1804) and 3 of 6 volumes of Ingles Family Bible (1823); first available documentation of Mary Draper Ingles (kidnapped at infamous Draper Meadows Massacre and later escaped from Shawnee Indian captivity) and William Ingles, operator of Ingles Ferry, Ingles Ferry Hill Tavern, and blacksmith shop. Documentation of the family's extraordinary history, its ferry, and related enterprises provides scholars with unparalleled material for the study of Southwest Virginia. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms2002-021.
INTERIOR AND WEST VIRGINIA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS,
1906-11. Ms81-024. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
IRON BELT LAND, MINING, AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY. RECORDS, 1883-87. Ms81-025. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
JACKSONVILLE [VIRGINIA] SCHOOL DISTRICT. MINUTE BOOK, 1870-
86.
0.1 cu.ft. Photocopy of the board minutes from the Jacksonville (now
Floyd), Floyd County, Virginia, school district. Ms85-008.
JACOCKS, HENRY MORGAN (1878-1950). PAPERS, 1898-1919. 2.0 cu. ft. Graduate of Virginia Tech (class of 1900); assistant superintendent at Mathieson Alkali Works (Saltville, Virginia). Correspondence, notes, trade catalogs, instructional booklets, and blueprints from Jacocks' years at Mathieson Alkali Works. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms92-008.
JAMERSON FAMILY. PAPERS, 1792, 1803-1907. 0.2 cu. ft. Franklin
County, Virginia, family. Papers include receipts, deeds, land
settlements, and correspondence from the Jamerson and other Franklin
County families, including the Webster, Basham, Rayford, Akers, and Neff
families. Also include fifteen Civil War Confederate soldiers' letters
from John Jamerson, in the 37th Virginia Cavalry, and John Hartsel,
written from Norfolk and Washington County, Virginia. Ms90-080.
JEWELL, D.V. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1898-1902, 1919-20. 4 vols.
Montgomery County, Virginia, general store merchant, and hotel owner.
Customer accounts for the store and the hotel, 1898-1920. Ms40-015.
JOHNSON CITY SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1905-09. Ms84-080. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
JOHNSON FARM HISTORIC RESOURCES STUDY. REPORT, 1990. 1.0
cu. ft.
Study of the Johnson Farm at Peaks of Otter in Bedford County, Virginia,
construction contracts. Norfolk and Western Railway Archives.
managed by the Blue Ridge Parkway. Prepared by the Appalachian Studies
Program at Virginia Tech (Dr. Jean H. Speer, project director).
Collection includes an historic structures report and nine volumes of
appentices. Ms90-061.
JOHNSON, MARTHA L. (1803-1886) FAMILY. PAPERS, 1821-1882. 0.5 cu. ft. Nineteenth-century matriarch of a Carroll County, Virginia family. Correspondence from friends and family members, focusing on themes related to domestic issues, religion, Civil War, medicine, and fashion. Also legal and financial papers of Robert C. Johnson, a Carroll County tavern keeper, postmaster, and commissioner of revenue (including Carroll county tax records for 1850); and correspondence of William Lithgow Robinson, a soldier in Company A, 18th Virginia Infantry ("Danville Blues"). Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2001-065.
JOHNSON, PATRICIA GIVENS (1932-1996). PAPERS, 1920-1986. 2.0 cu. ft. New River Valley local historian and author. Correspondence, subject files, printed materials and photographs accumulated during Johnson's research on local history, particularly for her books on Andrew Lewis, James Patton and William Preston. Also includes a scrapbook, files on Christiansburg and Montgomery County history, and a few other materials which had belonged to Johnson's mother, Lula Porterfield Givens, also a local historian. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms88-007.
JOHNSON, S. HARVEY (1854-?). COPYBOOK, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. 19th-century Pittsylvania County, Virginia Methodist minister. Copybook titled "Thoughts, Original and selected with Incidents, Illustrations, etc." containing passaged copied from numerous works, relating mostly to religious matters, including instructions on what and how to preach. Accompanied by an untitlted poem by Paul Hayne. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-004.
JOHNSTON, CLEMENT DIXON (1895-1979). PAPERS, 1932-79. 19.0 cu.
ft. Founder of Roanoke [Virginia] Public Warehouse (1926); deputy
director, U.S. Office of Civil Defense Planning (1947-48); President,
U.S. Chamber of Commerce (1954-55); special representative of the U.S.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee to study the foreign aid program in
Southeast Asia (1956-57); president, Virginia State Chamber of Commerce.
Papers include correspondence, speeches, letterbooks, publications,
scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, diaries, photographs, and memorabilia.
Topics covered include the Roanoke, Virginia, and U.S. Chambers of
Commerce, Boy Scouts of America, Virginia colleges and universities, and
Rotary International. Ms82-012.
JONES, J.T. LEDGER, 1925-26. 1 vol. Blacksburg, Virginia,
merchant, possibly owner of a meat market. Lists accounts by customer,
including C.W. Black, H.L. Price, and Y.B. Keister. Ms90-018.
KENILWORTH INN COMPANY. RECORDS, 1891-94. Ms84-081. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
KENNEY, ANNA WHITEHEAD. PAPERS, 1965-72. 0.6 cu. ft. Resident
of Blacksburg, Virginia, and curator of Smithfield Plantation from 1965
to 1972. Papers consist of the files she created while she worked at
Smithfield, with historical and biographical information about the
Preston family and other pioneer families of Blacksburg. Ms91-022.
KENOVA AND BIG SANDY RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1902-12. Ms81-026. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
KENT FAMILY. PAPERS, ca. 1818-1979; see BLACK, KENT AND APPERSON
FAMILIES, PAPERS OF. Germanicus Kent (1791-1862) was a founder of
Rockford, Illinois. Born in Connecticut, he lived in Huntsville,
Alabama (ca. 1822-34); Rockford, Illinois (1834-44); and Blacksburg,
Virginia (1844-62). Papers include a cotton book and letter book of
Germanicus Kent (2 vols., 1821-1823); correspondence of Germanicus
Kent (1834-60); miscellaneous correspondence and business papers
of Germanicus, Aratus, and John E. Kent (ca.1834-60); correspondence
with the Rockford, Illinois, Historical Society (ca.1966-77); and
biographical and genealogical information. The Kents were connected
to the Black and Apperson families by marriage. Finding
aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms74-003.
KENT, JACOB (1730-1776). ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1765-1793. 1.0 cu. ft. Merchant and innkeeper on the "Great Road" (now Virginia Route 11) in the Shawsville (Montgomery County), Virginia area. Collection consists of two account books. One ledger (spanning the years 1765 to 1771) is of unknown origin but records transactions of a merchant in the Cumberland County, Pennsylvania area. The second ledger is divided into two sections: The first section covers the years 1774 to 1776 and seems to detail the transactions of Kent's store in Montgomery County, recording customers' names, merchandise purchased, and credits to accounts. A section at the rear, written in a different hand and covering the years 1784 to 1793, may be from a store operated by Kent's son, Joseph Kent. Ms92-031.
KENT, JAMES RANDALL (?-1867). PAPERS, 1856-86, n.d. 0.4 cu. ft.
including C.W. Bl
Wealthy land and slave-holder in Montgomery and Pulaski counties,
Virginia. Collection includes court records, correspondence, titheables
to the Sheriffs of Montgomery and Pulaski counties, photographs, court
summons, and other notes concerning Kent's property--Kentland--and his
business affairs. Also includes a letter from Kent at Bank of Blacksburg
to William H. Macfarland of Richmond, Virginia. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.
Ms87-031.
KINCAID FAMILY. PAPERS, 1803-80. 31 items. Bills, receipts,
notes, and accounts of Charles, James, William, and John Kincaid, members
of a Bath County, Virginia, family. Includes receipts of James and
Charles Kincaid to the Bath County sheriff, a record of "appraisement"
(1866) of William Kincaid's estate, and a "Widow's Pension" (1880) to
Elizabeth Kincaid, wife of William. Ms87-001.
KING, W.B. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1904-05. 1 vol. Giles County,
Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-018.
KINGSBURY, J.D. PAPERS, 1854. 0.1 cu. ft. Missionary sent by
the American Sunday-School Union in Philadelphia, Pennsylavania, to
Monongalia and Marion counties, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1854.
Papers include Kingsbury's ceritificate appointing him to his position
by the Union, and five letters to him from co-workers and friends
referring to Kingsbury's concerns over the position given him and his
plans to establish a library. Ms89-054.
KINZER, MICHAEL (1762-1826). FAMILY PAPERS, 1782-1904. 0.1 cu.
ft. Montgomery County, Virginia, family. Collection consists of
documents concerned with the acquisition of land in Montgomery County,
and Michael Kinzer's last will and testament (1826). Ms62-005.
KINZIE, SAMUEL. SURVEY, 1899. 0.1 cu. ft. Montgomery County,
Virginia, resident. Survey of Kinzie properties in Blacksburg and
Christiansburg, Virginia, by C.S. Charlton. Ms87-044.
KNOX CREEK RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1912-36. Ms81-027. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
KNOXVILLE AND AUGUSTA RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1880-81. Ms84-083. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
KNOXVILLE AND BRISTOL RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1898-1903. Ms84-084. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
KNOXVILLE AND KENTUCKY RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1854-55. Ms84-085. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
KNOXVILLE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1873-1903. Ms84-086. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
KNOXVILLE, CUMBERLAND GAP AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1887-95. Ms84-087. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
KNOXVILLE, CUMBERLAND GAP AND LOUISVILLE RAILWAY
COMPANY. RECORDS, 1895-98. Ms84-088. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
LANCASTER, LUCY LEE (1905-89). PAPERS, ca. 1835-1980. 60.0 cu.
ft. One of the first female graduates (class of 1925) and later
librarian (1925-75) at Virginia Tech. Collection consists of personal
correspondence, travel diaries, memoranda and correspondence concerning
Library and University matters, Blacksburg [Virginia] Consumer Club
minutes and correspondence (1937-49), American Association of University
Women material, class notes (1921-25), United Daughters of the
Confederacy material, American Association of Retired Persons items,
Blacksburg Civilian Defense Council minutes and correspondence (1941-45),
and Phi Kappa Phi material. Materials include a typescript of the
Tuesday Afternoon Book Club of Blacksburg minutes (1933-80); a radio
script of "Three Heroes of Virginia" (Matthew F. Maury, Robert E. Lee,
and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson) written by M.C. Harrison of VPI; and a
manuscript copy of portions of the Montgomery County, Virginia, deed
book. Also includes correspondence and papers of her father William
Lancaster; plus family bibles with genealogical information; an account
book (1835-38) from a general store in Lynchburg, Virginia; and a book of
Kn
handwritten poetry and prose, some dedicating the Confederate dead, from
an unknown ancestor of Lancaster's. Inventory available online. Ms90-069.
LATHROP, HARRIET ELIZA (1857-?). REMINISCENCES, ca. 1937. 0.1
cu. ft. Born in New York, moved to Tazewell County, Virginia, with her
husband, a mining engineer, in 1881 when he was sent to open up the
Pocahontas Coal Field by the Norfolk and Western Railway Company.
Reminiscences recount her experiences in Virginia from 1881 until her
return to New York in 1885, the formation of the Pocahontas Coal Field
and the town of Pocahontas, Virginia, and the explosion of the coal mines
in March 1884. Includes a forward written by her daughter, Helen Lathrop
Thompson. Ms88-011.
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY [VIRGINIA]. RECORDS, 1961-96, n.d. 11.0 cu. ft. Montgomery County chapter established in March 1974 to promote political responsibility through informed and active participation of citizens in government, and to promote discussion of government policies. Records consist of chapter and national league literature and publications, bulletins, candidate questionaires, meeting minutes and agendas, budget and financial information, and treasurer's reports. Topics covered include the Equal Rights Amendment, natural resources, poverty in Montgomery County, and education. Inventory available. Ms97-016.
LEDGERWOOD, H.C. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1915. 1 vol. Pulaski County,
Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-017.
LEECH, PRESTON. GLASS SLIDES, ca. 1900-1925, and CASSETTE TAPE,
1994. 298 slides and 1 cassette tape. Collection of 298 glass slides
collected by Preston Leech, a Roanoke, Virginia, resident and an employee
of the Norfolk & Western Railway Company from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Most of the slides are of N&W locomotives, rail routes, and stations.
Other slides are of general agricultural and industrial scenes, and of
the Luray Caverns inVirginia. The cassette tape is of an interview of
Leech done in March 1994, where he speaks about his employment at the
Norfolk & Western Railway Company, the Appalachian Trail Club, and the
local Masonic Lodge. Transcript of the interview is available.
Ms94-003.
LEXINGTON AND DANVILLE RAILROAD ASSOCIATION. RECORDS, 1859-74. Ms84-090. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
LINCOLN-LOOK FAMILY. PAPERS, 1844-1930. 0.2 cu. ft. Sarah Ann Burt Lincoln (1826-1857) and husband Nathan Loomis Look (1819-1909), residents of Virginia's Loudoun, Botetourt, Montgomery, and Smyth counties during the mid-nineteenth century; operators of a farm implement factory, also engaged in cheese- and hat-making. Letters to and from Lincoln and Look family members in Massachusetts and New York, including a few written from Smyth County, Virginia during the Civil War. Transcripts available. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database.Ms85-009.
LINGOHOCKEN COAL COMPANY. RECORDS, 1904-18. Ms81-028. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
LIPPS, J.E. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1892-1904. 29 vols. Wise County,
Virginia general store, lumber operation, and attorney. Customer and
client accounts. Ms40-016.
LOBDELL CAR WHEEL COMPANY. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1881-1902. 19
vols.
Smyth and Wythe counties general stores, furnaces, and mining operations.
Customer accounts. Ms40-019.
LOUISVILLE, HARRODSBURG AND VIRGINIA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1882-84. Ms84-095. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
LOUISVILLE SOUTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1885-96. Ms84-098. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
LOUP CREEK COLLIERY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1902-41. Ms81-029. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
LOWER CREEK AND LINVILLE VALLEY TRANSPORTATION
COMPANY. RECORDS, 1891-93. Ms84-099. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
LUCAS, DANIEL BEDINGER (1836-1909). PAPERS, 1812-1924, n.d. 1.6
cu. ft. West Virginia lawyer and poet. Papers consist of
correspondence, newspapers, poems and essays, scrapbooks, and other
materials collected and created by Lucas and his daughter Virginia.
Topics include Lucas's attempts to defend his friend John Yates Beall
from being charged as a Confederate spy by the Union during the Civil
War, West Virginia politics, the exploits of adventurer William Walker,
and the origins of Robert E. Lee's horse Traveler. Also includes many
examples of Lucas's poetry. Inventory
available. Ms95-012.
McGAVOCK, DAVID CLOYD (1845-64). PAPERS, 1861-1901, n.d. 0.1 cu.
ft. Soldier in Company B of the 24th Virginia Regiment in the
Confederate Army during the Civil War. Died in May, 1864. Collection
consists of ca. 35 items, including letters written by McGavock to his
family while in studying at Roanoke College in 1861, and then from camps
near Winchester and Petersburg, Virginia, and Goldsboro, North Carolina.
Includes sympathy letters to McGavock's sister after his death, and other
miscellaneous family papers. Ms90-032.
MAHOOD, THOMAS A. CIVIL WAR REMINISCENCES, ca. 1895. 0.1 cu.
ft.
Lieutenant in the Wise Legion Artillery Virginia Volunteers, Company B,
Pearisburg Reserves, Giles County. The company was originally organized
by William W. McComas in 1861. Manuscript consists of a thirty-six page
retrospective written by Mahood of his war experiences. Describes the
company's involvement in the battle of Drewrys Bluff (May 1864), and the
actions of the Legion commander General Henry A. Wise. Ms79-002.
MANNING, WARREN H. PAPERS, 1925-27. 0.1 cu. ft. Landscape
architect in Massachusetts. Papers include Manning's reports and
blueprint drawings on historic sites of Blacksburg, Virginia, including
the Black homestead, Smithfield, and Preston Cemetery. Ms62-007.
[MAP OF 1937 MERRIMAC COMMUNITY, 1996.] 0.1 cu. ft. Map of the
Merrimac coal mining community in Montgomery County, Virginia, as it was
in 1937. Produced by the Appalachian Studies Program and the Landscape
Architecture Program at Virginia Tech. Restricted use. Ms96-012.
MARMION, BISHOP WILLIAM HENRY (1907- ). PAPERS, 1935-79. 8.0
cu. ft. Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia
(1954-79). Rector of St. Mary's on the Highlands (1938-50) in
Birmingham, Alabama, and of St. Andrew's Church (1950-54) in Wilmington,
availabl
Deleware. Papers include correspondence, conference programs, news
clippings, and photographs on topics covering his career as a bishop and
minister, and his views concerning the Vietnam War and black civil
rights. Future additions expected. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms86-013.
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1850-98. Ms84-103. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
MEMPHIS-CHATTANOOGA RAILWAY. RECORDS, 1899-1941. Ms84-104. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH [PULASKI, VIRGINIA,
MISSION].
RECORD BOOK, 1892-96. 1 vol. Mission for the Methodist Episcopal Church
in Southwest Virginia. Record book list membership, baptisms, financial
information, Sunday school attendence, and other business for regions in
Pulaski and Carroll counties and other areas of Southwest Virginia.
Ms90-039.
MICHAEL, RUDOLPH DIXON (1904-1994). PAPERS, 1925-1984. 0.2 cu. ft. Virginia Polytechnic Institute alumnus (class of 1926) and Agricultural Experiment Station agricultural editor (1928-65). Contains correspondence and notes relating to the histories Blacksburg, the Preston family, and Smithfield Plantation (including maps of the grounds and the cemetery). Also contains a few campus photographs and printed materials related to Virginia Tech. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms60-005.
MIDDLESBOROUGH MINERAL RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1900-02. Ms84-105. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
MILLER, CHARLES A. (1819-93). FAMILY PAPERS, 1708-1926. 0.4 cu.
ft. Christiansburg, Virginia, clergyman. Served as a home missionary in
Giles County, Virginia, (1849-51) and in the Kimberlin Church of Giles
County (1853-62). Pastor in the White House Church near Radford,
Virginia, from 1871-93. Collection includes account books (1818-1903) of
Rev. Miller and his second wife Melinda Taylor, as well as those of his
ancestor Johann Muller of Schwabisch Hall in Germany (1708-26); oath of
allegiance (1778) annotated by Miller's uncle, the folk artist Lewis
Miller (1796-1882), of Ludwig Miller of Worcestor Township, Pennsylvania;
certificate of apprenticeship (1799) of Daniel Miller of York County,
Pennsylvania; and several other papers belonging to Rev. Miller,
including deeds (1855), a diary (1858), and receipts and promissory notes
(1840-1906). Mrs. Miller's papers include correspondence (1893-1903), a
bank book (1901-02), and a typescript genealogy of her family (1926).
Ms83-001.
MILLER, T.S. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1885-1919. 18 vols. Giles County,
Virginia, general stores merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-020.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY [VIRGINIA] BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION. RECORDS, 1972-1977. 1.0 cu. ft. Commission formed to organize events celebrating the 200th anniversary of the formation of the United States and Montgomery County, Virginia. Includes correspondence, minutes, working notes and preparatory materials, printed material, and a scrapbook. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms76-001.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY [VIRGINIA] DEMOCRATIC COMMITTEE.
RECORDS,
1961-94. 3.0 cu. ft. Correspondence, newsclippings, meeting minutes,
and rosters concerning the committee, local politics, and the
Congressional, Senatorial, and Presidential races of the 1970s, 1980s,
and 1990s. Includes information about the specific campaigns and tenures
of Rick Boucher (9th District Congressional Representative), L. Douglas
Wilder (as Governor of Virginia, 1989-93), Al Gore and Bill Clinton (1992
Presidential campaign), Don Beyer (Lietenant Governor campaign), Mary Sue
Terry for Attorney General (1989) and Governor (1993), and Joan Munford
and Jim Shuler for the 12th District Virginia House of Delegates.
Ms89-061.
MONTGOMERY COUNTY [VIRGINIA] HISTORIC SITES SURVEY. RECORDS, 1985-1986. 1.2 cu. ft. Records arising from a 1985 survey of significant architectural and/or historical sites in Montgomery County, Virginia. Includes an inventory of structures and sites, a copy of the survey's book, Montgomery County Historic Sites Survey (1986), and maps indicating locations of the inventory's structures and sites. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms86-006.
[MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA, SURVEY, 1965]. 1 vol. Typescript
Pesurvey prepared by the first-year graduate students of the Department
of
Pennsylvania; and several other papers belonging to Re
Urban and Regional Planning at Virginia Tech. Topics include land use
and misuse, transportation, commerce, employment, political aspects,
non-urban lands, shopping distribution, county government, financial
implementation, and land use controls. Ms91-060.
MONTGOMERY FILM SOCIETY. RECORDS, 1956-1972. 0.5 cu. ft. Society devoted to bringing foreign, art and classic films to Blacksburg, Virginia. Records include correspondence, membership lists and administrative notes (including constitution), film advertisements and reviews, film rental agreements, programs, and financial records. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms73-007.
MONTGOMERY SAVINGS BANK. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1873-78. 1 vol.
Montgomery County, Virginia, bank. Customer accounts. Ms75-009.
MONTGOMERY WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS. GUEST BOOK, 1886-1890. .6 cu. ft. Resort operating in rural Montgomery County, Virginia from 1855 to 1904. Register includes
names of resort's guests, their places of residence and notes on their meals, rooms and porterage. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.
Also available in PDF format (PDF 90.2mb) Ms2003-007.
MORRISTOWN AND CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1881-82. Ms84-108. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
MORRISTOWN, CUMBERLAND GAP AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1880-82. Ms84-109. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
MULLENS SMOKELESS COAL COMPANY. RECORDS, 1937-60. 2.0 cu.
ft.
Mullens, West Virginia, coal company, owned by Harry Meade. Briefly
called the Harmco Smokeless Coal Company in the 1950s. Records consist
of ledgers, cash books, and certificates of stock. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms94-005.
MULLINS, HENRY I. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1921-24. 1 vol. Wise County,
Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-024.
MUNSEY, W.T. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1911-24. 29 vols. Giles County,
Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-025.
MURDOCK, FRANK M. PAPERS, 1877-93. 0.1 cu. ft. One volume of
notes taken by Murdock, of Kingwood, Preston County, West Virginia. Notes are of several clubs
in Kingwood, including the constitution and
meeting minutes of the Kingwood Amateur Troupe, programs and minutes of
the Kingwood School Literary Society, and treasurer's notes of the Mozart
Band of Kingwood. Also includes Murdock's certificate of baptism (1877).
Ms88-056.
NEW JERSEY ZINC CORPORATION [AUSTINVILLE, VIRGINIA].
RECORDS,
1911-69. Ca. 30.0 cu. ft. New Jersey Zinc purchased the mines in Wythe
County from the Bertha Mineral Company in 1902, and became its parent
company. Originally formed from the southwest Virginia lead mines
discovered by Colonel John Chiswell in 1756. Collection consists of
maps, blueprints, and files of the corporation's Austinville operations.
Unprocessed. Ms91-032.
NEW RIVER AND NORTHERN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1902-11. Ms81-034. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NEW RIVER GROCERY COMPANY. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1905-06. 1 vol.
Grayson County, Virginia, general store. Order book. Ms40-026.
NEW RIVER, HOLSTON AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1900-19. Ms81-035. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NEW RIVER INVESTMENT COMPANY. RECORDS, 1889-1904. Ms81-036. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NEW RIVER PLATEAU RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1888-91. Ms81-037. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NEW RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY (VIRGINIA). RECORDS, 1879-86. Ms81-038. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NEW RIVER RAILROAD, MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY (VIRGINIA). Ms81-040. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NEW RIVER RAILROAD, MINING AND MANUFACTURING COMPANY OF WEST VIRGINIA. RECORDS, 1874-81. Ms81-041. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NEW RIVER VALLEY PLANNING DISTRICT COMMISSION. REPORTS AND FILES, 1959-91, n.d. 3.0 cu. ft. Collection consists of reports, files, and other literature gathered and used by the commission to aid their planning for the New River Valley of Virginia. Some of the records deal with forestation, wilderness management, water systems, economic concerns, and housing in the New River Valley and other areas of southern Appalachia. Includes publications from the Appalachian Regional Commission. Inventory available. Ms98-024.
NEWLEE FAMILY. PAPERS, 1916,1980, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Blacksburg,
Virginia, family. Colonel Robert G. Newlee was a sergeant in the 1st
Virginia Regiment in the Mexican War, and raised a company in Blacksburg
known as the Montgomery Mountain Boys in the Civil War. Papers include a
history (1980) of Smithfield Plantation, the Preston Family, and Virginia
Newlee (Robert's daughter) written by George Shackleford; an obituary of
Colonel Newlee; and a newspaper clipping (1916) with the muster roll of
the Company of Virginia Volunteers in the Mexican War. Also includes a
muster roll of Company L, Fourth Virginia Regiment, in the Civil War, of
which Newlee was captain. Ms82-021.
NICOLAY, JOHN. PAPERS, 1792-1920. 0.2 cu. ft. Blacksburg,
Virginia, resident. Collection consists of papers Nicolay has used for
his research on Montgomery County, Virginia, history. Topics include
poverty in Montgomery County, blacks, local churches, and the Edie Family
of Christiansburg, Virginia. Materials include oral history tapes,
and Wslides, and the transcript for Nicolay's paper, "Slave and Black
Commentaries: An Oral History Project Reflecting on Wake Forest,
Montgomery County, Virginia," written with Clyde Kessler; original
documents, receipts, court records and warrants for arrest; historical
photographs of the area by Earl Palmer; material from Mountainside
Magazine, edited by Nicolay from 1983 to 1984, including writings by
Beverly Brinlee, Jess Carr, Fred Waage, and William White; chapters from
Ann Swain's Radford University thesis about the Christiansburg Industrial
Institute; and other material relating to the history of Montgomery
County. Ms87-027.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1881-96. Ms81-043. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1896-1933. Ms81-044. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. ACCOUNTING DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL RECORDS, 1874-1907. 0.5 cu. ft. Three ledgers containing records relating to the personnel of the company's accounting department, listing employee name, age, marital status, date of hire, jobs worked, and wages earned. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Norfolk & Western Railway Archives. Ms92-058.
NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. HISTORICAL
PHOTOGRAPH
COLLECTION, ca. 1905-69. Approximately 10,000 photographic images taken by the Norfolk and Western Railway's Public Relations Department. Subjects include locomotives; cars; coal mines; stations; cities and towns; Roanoke, Virginia, and the Hotel Roanoke; farm scenes; resorts; train wrecks; colleges and universities; group and individual portraits; and caves and caverns. Some photographs date from as early as the 1880s, and a large group of glass plates dates from the early 1900s, but the bulk of the photograph collection dates from the 1920s or later. Other railroads covered by the collection in addition to the Norfolk and Western include the Atlantic and Danville; the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio; the Big Stony; the Chesapeake and Ohio; the Cincinnati, Portsmouth, and Virginia; the Lynchburg and Durham; the New River, Holston, and Western; the New York, Chicago, and St. Louis; the Norfolk and Virginia Beach; the Ohio Railroad; the Ohio and Northwestern; the Ohio River and Columbus; the Ohio River and Western; the Virginian; the Virginia and Tennessee; and the Wabash. Originals returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com. Images available on
the VT Imagebase.
Ms88-120.
NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. LAW DEPARTMENT RECORDS, ca. 1880s-1956. Ms98-005. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CONSTRUCTION SITE PHOTOGRAPHS, 1967-81, n.d. 0.6 cu. ft. Collection of approximately 360 photographs of railroad construction in Southwest Virginia. Ms97-027.
NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1899-1940. Ms84-116. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NORTH CAROLINA MIDLAND RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1880-97. Ms84-117. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
NORTHWESTERN NORTH CAROLINA RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1868-95. Ms84-121. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
"ORAL HISTORY OF THE PRINCIPALSHIP." RECORDS, 1987-95. 8.0 cu.
ft. Project designed to interview retired elementary, middle, and high
school principals for their views, reminiscences, and accumulated wisdom.
Most of the interviewees are from the Southeast (mainly Virginia, North
Carolina, Maryland, District of Columbia, and West Virginia). The
Project Director was Dr. Patrick W. Carlton, Associate Professor of
Education at Virginia Tech. Materials consist of cassette tapes and
transcripts of the interviews. Ms89-040.
OLIVER, RUSSELL VAN BUREN. LETTERS, 1921-48. 0.1 cu. ft.
Thirty-eight items of correspondence from friends and relatives in
Roanoke, Charlottesville, and Blacksburg, Virginia, and other places to
Oliver and his mother Etta in Winchester, Salem, Goodwin Ferry, and
Blacksburg, Virginia. Ms82-005.
PALMER, EARL (1905-96). APPALACHIAN PHOTOGRAPH AND
ARTIFACT
COLLECTION, Ca. 1880-1989. Ca. 100 cu. ft. Award-winning Appalachian
photographer and collector of Appalachian material culture artifacts.
Palmer's photographs have been published in a number of magazines,
including Life, National Geographic, and the Saturday Evening Post; in
newspapers including the New York Times and Washington Star; and in books
including Mountain Medicine and many of the books of Kentucky author
Jesse Stuart. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums
across the nation. Palmer's photographs, taken over a fifty-year period,
include depictions of the traditional culture of mountain people--their
work, economy, daily life, and creative expression. Photographs include
scenes of logging, mining, farming, railroading, moonshining, and
homemaking; many photographs are accompanied by extensive typescript
commentaries written by Palmer. The artifacts include a moonshine still;
a hand-carved replica of Mabry Mill made by mountaineer Newton Hylton;
handmade dolls, a rocking chair, wagon wheels, and a plow; and artifacts
representative of coal mining and railroading in the Appalachian region.
The materials have been donated jointly to the Appalachian Collection in
the University Libraries and the Appalachian Studies Program at Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database.Ms89-025.
PANDAPAS, JAMES J. (1915- ). AUDIOTAPE and PAPERS, 1966-88,
1997. 0.2 cu. ft. Resident of Blacksburg, Virginia, born in Peabody,
Massachusetts. Played a large role in the development of business and
residential housing in Blacksburg by establishing Blacksburg's first
industry, Electro-Tec, in 1947, and Poly-Scientific Corporation, in 1953,
both manufacturers of electroplated slip-rings for radar antannae. Also
developed various neighborhoods in Blacksburg, including Airport Acres
(established in 1942) and Highland Park (1945). In 1948 Pandapas
purchased a 500 acre track of land on Poverty Creek in Montgomery County,
Virginia, as a recreational area for the employees of Electro-Tec. By
the time he sold this land to the National Park Service in 1987 it was
called Pandapas Pond. Collection consists of audio-tapes of an interview
conducted on July 16, 1997, in which Pandapas talks about his life and
career as a businessman in Blacksburg. The collection also includes a
transcription of the interview with corrections and additons done by
Pandapas, newspaper clippings (1966-88) of editorials written by Pandapas
and interviews conducted with him, and a self-published book entitled
"Early History of Poly-Scientific by its Founder James J. Pandapas." Transcript of interview available.
Ms97-011.
PARSONS, HENRY C. (1840-?). PAPERS, 1863-85. 0.2 cu. ft. Lawyer
and capitalist. An officer in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil
War. After the war he lived in West Virginia and was successively
involved in the management of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, the
Richmond and Alleghany Railroad, the Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad,
and the Kanawha Construction Company. Owned Natural Bridge in Rockbridge
County, Virginia. Papers consist of correspondence to Parsons primarily
from H.D. Whitcomb and C.W. Parsons (no relation), who acted as railroad
"spies" for Parsons. Ms90-109.
PATRICK COUNTY [VIRGINIA] PROJECT. RECORDS, 1980-82. 19.0 cu.
ft. Sponsored by the Blue Ridge Regional Library and Virginia Tech to
explore the theme of "Continuity and Change in a Rural Community." It
was conducted between September 1980 and August 1982. The project began
by presenting a series of folklife programs on local traditions of music,
dance, verbal art, history, and material culture; continued by collecting
and transcribing taped oral histories of families and communities,
building a collection of photographs of the county's past and present,
and expanding the public branch library's and the University library's
collections in regional literature, folk culture, and history; and then
combining these activities as resources for producing a series of public
programs which pursued the basic theme of "continuity and change" in this
transcription of the interview with corrections and additons d
commentaries wr
rural Southwest Virginia county. The collection consists of taped
interviews; transcripts; biographical information about the interviewees;
a subject card index to the interviews; a film, "Up and Down These Roads:
a Rural County in Transition"; slide/tape programs; and such project
documents as the original proposal, the final report, photographs,
publicity clippings, and program posters. Ms83-007.
PAXTON, JAMES G. LETTER, 1863. 0.1 cu. ft. Confederate major in
the Civil War. Letter, April 6, 1863, from Paxton in Salem, Virginia, to
Major William McLaughlin suggesting he consider being a candidate for the
Confederate State Senate from Lexington and Rockbridge, Virginia.
Ms88-071.
PENDLETON, LEE (1893- ). PAPERS, 1964-76. 0.1 cu. ft.
Montgomery County, Virginia, historian, author of Indian Massacre In
Montgomery County, 1755-1756 (1968). Collection includes correspondence,
manuscript drafts on local history and families, a copy of his book, and
newspaper clippings. Ms74-007.
PERRY, THOMAS DAVID (1960- ). COLLECTION, ca.1979-2007. 29 cu. ft. Virginia Tech graduate (class of 1984), historian, and founder of the J.E.B. Stuart Birthplace Preservation Trust, Inc. Research notes, writings, photographs, printed materials and photocopies of original sources relating to the history of Patrick County, Virginia, and the life, family and birthplace of native son Confederate General James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart. Inventory available on the Virginia Heritage database. Unprocessed. Ms2008-006.
PEYTON, JOHN HOWE (1778-1847). LETTER, 1821. 0.1 cu. ft. Born
in Stony Hill, Stafford County, Virginia; attended the College of New
Jersey at Princeton, and became a lawyer in 1799. Virginia Commonwealth
Attorney, state senator (1839-45), and founder of the Virginia Female
Institute at Staunton. Married Susanna Smith Madison (1780-1820) in
1802, and after her death married Ann Elizabeth Lewis (1802-50). Letter
is from Peyton in Staunton to his first wife's mother, Elizabeth Preston
Madison (1762-1837) at Fotheringay, Montgomery County, Virginia, and
writes of the family and personal concerns. Ms77-001.
POCAHONTAS AND WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1904-12. Ms81-048. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
POCAHONTAS COAL AND COKE COMPANY. RECORDS, 1927-39. Ms81-050. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
POCAHONTAS COAL COMPANY. RECORDS, 1885-1909. Ms81-049. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
POND CREEK BY-PRODUCTS COAL COMPANY. RECORDS, 1918-21. Ms81-051. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Contact: Archives1@nscorp.com.
PORTER, J.C. PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM, ca. 1880. 1 vol. Scrapbook of
approximately 240 (all ca. 1880) photographs of structures and scenes in
several southwestern Virginia counties, including Bland, Craig, Giles,
and Smyth. Includes photographs of a Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad station
Madison (1762-1837) at Fotheringay, Montgomer
in New Castle and Mountain Lake resort hotel, both in Giles County.
Photographs believed to have been taken and compiled by Porter.
Ms90-079.Images available online.
POWELLS VALLEY RAILWAY COMPANY. RECORDS, 1886-88. Ms84-130. Returned to NS Corp Archives in Atlanta. Cont
