Appalachian Collection Guide

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. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms96-003.
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, 1890-2008, n.d. 6.8 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 Membership in the D.A.R. is eligible to "any woman 18 years or older, regardless of race, religion, or ethnic background, who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution." 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, minutes and membership ledgers, yearbooks, scrapbooks, news bulletins, obituaries of members, and the original charter of the chapter. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1995-019.
ALLEN FAMILY. SCRAPBOOK, 1970-1972. 0.1 cu. ft. Carroll County, Virginia family involved in 1912 gun battle in the Hillsville, Virginia courthouse. Scrapbook chronicles the history of the shootout, its participants and aftermath in a set of newspaper clippings, including a series titled "Fatal Doom of the Allens" by Louise Jones Dubose. Also includes one original piece, a poem titled "A Memorial: Claude Swanson Allen." Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-065.
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). COLLECTION, 1912-1938. 1.0 cu. ft. American novelist, short story writer, and critic; settled on Ripshin Farm (Marion, Virginia) in 1929, and became owner/operator of both local newspapers. Correspondence, including letters from Anderson to daughter Marian ("Mimi"), together with letters to other family members and a few letters regarding professional matters; typescript of a speech given to striking laborers in Danville, Virginia in 1931; and research materials about Anderson (mainly reproduction photographs and notes on his books) compiled by professors Ray White and Charles Modlin. A finding aid for the collection is available in the Virginia Heritage database. 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.
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. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms62-001.
BALDWIN FAMILY. LETTERS, 1861-1897. 0.1 cu. ft. Tazewell County, Virginia family. Letters from Denison B. Baldwin, Captain of 23rd Battalion Virginia Infantry to wife Sallie W. Barnes Baldwin. Also includes letter from Baldwin's brother-in-law, Oscar F. Barnes, while a prisoner at Fort Delaware, as well as letters among other family members and residents of Southwest Virginia. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-033.
BANK OF BLACKSBURG [VIRGINIA]. MINUTE BOOK, 1892-1903. 1 vol. Photocopy of the minutes of stockholders' and directors' meetings. Ms83-004.
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.
BEAR, VIVIAN COLEMAN (1888-1984). PAPERS, 1844-1960. 0.2 cu. ft. Resident of Roanoke, Virginia; cousin of Mark Twain. Correspondence to Bear, most apparently from would-be suitors, including Baltimore attorney H. Ferd Wiegand; correspondence and financial documents of the Clemens and Staley families; Bible with genealogical notes and clippings; photographs; and ephemera. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-086.
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.
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 STONY RAILROAD COMPANY. RECORDS, 1897-1917. Ms81-006.
BIG VEIN ANTHRACITE COLLIERIES. RECORDS, 1926-1928. 0.1 cu. ft. Coal mining operation in McCoy (Montgomery County), Virginia. Daily reports of fire boss, describing mine conditions. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. 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.
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.
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 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.
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). Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms88-042.
BOONE, BETTY BELLE (1865-1931). DIARY, 1893-1894. 0.1 cu. ft. Young woman of Boones Mill, Franklin County, Virginia. Diary documenting household chores and social activities. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-051.
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. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms92-002.
BROWN FAMILY. PAPERS, 1825-1912, 1965, n.d. 0.5 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. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1990-011.
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, 1925-1944. 2.3 cu. ft. Virginia Tech head librarian, amateur historian and naturalist; compiler of the V.P.I. Historical Index, 1872-1941. Historical sources relating to Virginia Tech, Blacksburg and the New River Valley; notes on local ornithological and weather observations. For Brown's official files as head librarian, see Record Group 23/1. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. 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.
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.
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. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms94-032.
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.
CARNAHAN, JOHN NEWTON (1824-1862). LETTERS, 1861-1862. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Pulaski County, Virginia; private in Company F, 54th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Letters written from camps in Southwest Virginia and eastern Kentucky to wife Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan and children at home in Pulaski County. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-112.
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. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1996-008.
CASSEL, JACOB. PAPERS, 1865-1881. 0.1 cu. ft. Confederate landowner from Smyth County, Virginia. Materials relate to Cassel's business, his community involvement, and the Civil War, and include a signed oath of allegiance from 1865. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms2008-086.
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.
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.
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.
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.
COCKE, THEOPHILUS (1825-1911). LETTER, 1907. 0.1 cu. ft. Veteran of the Mexican War. Letter to Dr. Brancomb Cabble requesting benefits provided by the Service Pension Bill of 1907. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-057.
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.
COX, EMORY M. (1835-1908). RECEIPTS, 1862-1902. 0.1 cu. ft. Nineteenth-century resident of Scott County, Virginia. Receipts for taxes, goods and license fees. [3 items]. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-049.
CRABILL, ELIAS (1826-1890). ACCOUNT STATEMENT, 1861. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Bill issued by Strasburg, Virginia mercantile business Zea & Pirkey for food, fabric, and clothing accessories purchased by Crabill�s sister. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-059.
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.
DEHART, W. D. & SONS. LEDGERS, 1916-1946. 0.7 cu. ft. Country store in Meadows of Dan, Virginia, likely operated by William D. Dehart. Three ledgers of customer accounts. One ledger of wholesale transactions. Loose letters within ledgers. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-045.
DEVIER, HUGH (1818-1889). LETTER OF ATTORNEY, 1857. Resident of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Legal document granting Devier's mother, Nancy Devier, power of attorney in receiving funds from sale of the lands and slaves of his late father, Allen Devier. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-039.
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. Finding aid with links to transcripts and images available on the Virginia Heritage database. 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.
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.
FANCY GAP CHURCH SINGING CLASS. PHOTOGRAPH, ca. 1900. 0.1 cu. ft. Church in Carroll County, Virginia. Photograph of group in front of church, together with caption identifying those pictured. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-068.
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.
FRANKLIN, JAMES C. (1836-?). LETTER, 1863. 0.1. cu. ft. Soldier in 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Letter to wife Susan, in Galveston (Pittsylvania County), Virginia, describing a recent, difficult march through rain and snow near Fredericksburg, recounting a massive snowball fight between Toombs' and Cross' brigades, and advising his brother to bring a surgeon's certificate when he returns to duty. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-076.
FRENCH, CHAPMAN J. (1880-1964). PAPERS, 1903-1951. 1.5 cu. ft. Graduate of Virginia Tech (class of 1902), civil engineer employed by the Norfolk & Western Railway Company (1902-1950). Office papers, including notes, correspondence, memoranda, specifications, maps and plans relating to both specific projects and engineering department procedures, as well as other aspects of railway�s administration and operation. Also includes small set of personal papers. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-034.
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.
GIBBONEY, A. H. AND WILLIAM. LETTER, 1882. Letter to W. R. Wharton concerning the payment of employees of the Norfolk and Western Railroad (formerly the Atlantic, Mississippi, and Ohio Railroad). Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-070.
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.
GOVERNORS' CONFERENCE. STATE DINNER MENU, 1950. 0.1 cu. ft. Menu from state dinner of the National Governors' Conference of 1950, held at the Greenbrier (White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia). Autographed for John Britton Jr. by Tennessee Governor Gordon Browning and others. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-047.
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.
GREER, CHARLES P. (1877-1953). LETTER, 1947. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Troutdale, Virginia. Lumberman, sheep owner, merchant, and land speculator. Typescript letter and broadside, discussing the purchase and planned improvement of auctioned lands in Troutdale, Virginia. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-078.
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.
HENDERSON, LILBURN LEWIS (1786-1820). LEGAL DOCUMENT, 1820. 0.1 cu. ft. Abingdon, Virginia merchant; guardian of children of business partner William Trigg, deceased. Report of commission examining Henderson's accounts as guardian. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-092.
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.
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.
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.
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. 0.3 cu. ft. 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. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1998-001.
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
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 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 history, its ferry, and related enterprises.Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2002-021.
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 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, JOHN HENRY (1889-1956). SCRAPBOOK, 1907-1952. 0.3 cu. ft. Southwest Virginia farmer, businessman and politician, serving in the Virginia House of Delegates (1914-1915) and Virginia Senate (1924-1928). Scrapbook containing correspondence from state and national political figures (most notably William Jennings Bryan and other members of the Bryan family), newspaper clippings relating to Johnson family relatives and acquaintances as well as local, state and national history; and ephemera. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-053.
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.
JOSEPH FUNK & SONS. CORRESPONDENCE, 1858-1860. Mennonite farmer, school master, and publisher of music books from Rockingham County, Virginia. Two letters from Joseph Funk & Sons to James Curry discussing his reception of songbooks and the settlement of his account. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-074.
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.
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.
KILLINGER, KENNETH G. COLLECTION, 1925-1932, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Lutheran missionary near Marion, and throughout Smyth County, Virginia. Collection contains a report on mountain mission work and Lutheran summer camp programs. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1988-030.
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.
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.
LEFTWICH FAMILY. LETTERS, 1861-1866. 0.2 cu. ft. Bedford County, Virginia family. Letters from members of the Leftwich family and their friends. Correspondence from James B. (28th Virginia Infantry), William, and Thomas Leftwich in addition to missives from a family friend and a bereaved lover. The soldiers� letters issue from Civil War battlefronts and provide insight into significant battles (the Battle of Bull Run), war-time trade, and the daily routine of a soldier. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-021.
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.
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.
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. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1995-012.
MCCALL, WILLIAM. LETTER, 1785. Resident of Franklin County, Virginia. Letter written to John Barr, of Holstein, regarding family matters. McCall mentions having a letter from "Brother Robert," who intends a trip to "Caintucky." Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-042.
MCCAULEY, JOHN. LETTER, 1864. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Salem, Virginia during the Civil War. Letter describing arrival at home, advising Edward (probably his son) not to accompany fellow soldiers who steal from the local populace at night, and relaying news of a benefit exhibition for soldiers in the area. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-075.
MCDONALD, MARTHA. LETTER, 1862. 0.1 cu. ft. Southern woman and wife to Lewis McDonald, a Confederate soldier. Letter of general inquiry to husband serving in the Civil War. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-029.
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.
MASSANUTTEN MOUNTAIN [VIRGINIA]. PHOTOGRAPH, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Mountain ridge in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. Early twentieth century photograph taken from the mountain and overlooking Woodstock, Virginia to the west. Photograph by local photographer Hugh Morrison, Jr. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-066.
MATTHEWS, THOMAS J. CORRESPONDENCE, 1878, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Surveyor for Kanawha County, West Virginia. Letters to W. W. Gitt regarding coal lands near Coal River and Cabin Creek on the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, accompanied by note from Gitt giving instructions to an unnamed person. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-032.
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.
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 FEMALE COLLEGE. COLLECTION, 1886-1892. 0.1 cu. ft. Christiansburg, Virginia institution of higher learning for women during the latter 19th century. Assorted ephemera relating to the school, including a program for the 1886 class exercises; an 1892 program of entertainment; and certificates awarded to students Annie V. and Eugenia V. Sullivan. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-013.
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.
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 GROCERY COMPANY. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1905-06. 1 vol. Grayson County, Virginia, general store. Order book. Ms40-026.
NEW RIVER INVESTMENT COMPANY. DEEDS, 1890-1892. Company chartered in 1889 for developing land in Montgomery County, Virginia. One deed from 1890 and three drafts of a deed from 1892. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-073.
NEW RIVER MINERAL COMPANY. STOCK CERTIFICATE, ca. 1882. 0.1 cu. ft. Mineral company operating at Ivanhoe (Wythe County), Virginia during the late nineteenth century. Unissued certificate for shares of the company�s stock. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-036.
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 RAILWAY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES. COLLECTION, 1855-1967. 1.2 cu. ft. Reorganized in 1896 from the Norfolk and Western Railroad; merged with Southern Railway in 1982 to form Norfolk Southern Corporation. Financial and legal documents, reports, maps, construction files, printed materials and photographs relating to the railway, its predecessor and subsidiary lines and other associated enterprises, including the Atlantic & Danville Railway; Bluefield Inn; Hotel Roanoke; New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad ("Nickel Plate Road"); Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad; Norfolk and Western Railroad; Roanoke Machine Works, and the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-037.
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 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.
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. Images available on the VT Imagebase. Ms88-120.
NORFOLK & WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. PHOTOGRAPH, [1925?]. 0.1 cu. ft. Rail carrier headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia. Photograph of group believed to be Roanoke, Virginia employees of the company. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-019.
"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.
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.
PRESTON, JOHN (1764-1827). PAPERS, 1806-20, 1844, n.d. 0.2 cu. ft. Born at Greenfield (the Preston family home prior to Smithfield), served in the Virginia militia and the House of Delegates and Virginia Senate throughout his life. Treasurer of Virginia from 1810 to 1819. Papers consist of letters and promissory notes, and documents stating the transfer of lands, slaves, and property. Also includes a letter from J.B. McBride at the Union Theological Seminary, to William M. Radford of Botetourt County, Virginia. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms94-034.
PRESTON, NELSON. LETTER, 1840. 0.1 cu. ft. Lieutenant colonel of the 94th Virginia Militia. Note from Preston to Captain Robinet, discussing regimental training and a muster at Lee Courthouse. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-075.
PRESTON, ROBERT TAYLOR (1809-80). PAPERS, 1829-71, n.d.. 0.2 cu. ft. Born at Smithfield in Blacksburg, Virginia; built Solitude, his home near Smithfield, now part of Virginia Tech. Prior to the Civil War Preston served as a member of the militia and justice of the peace. At the start of the Civil War he was appointed colonel of volunteers in the Provisional Army of Virginia, and in July 1861 was appointed colonel of the 28th Virginia Infantry, Confederate States of America, where he served until the infantry's reorganization in April 1862. Beginning in August 1864 he served as lieutenant colonel and then colonel of the 4th Virginia Reserves, and surrendered with the troops of General J. E. Johnston in North Carolina in April 1865. The collection consists of 218 Photographs, letters, military orders, notes, certificates of military appointments, and other items, the majority collected or created by Preston during the period of May 1861 and December 1862. Includes several military orders signed by such members of the Confederate Army as Jubal Early, John B. Floyd, and George E. Pickett, as well as orders written by Preston himself. Also includes a draft of a broadside written by Preston from Solitude on May 13, 1863, as a call to arms to the men of Roanoke and Montgomery County to repel the Union Army which was in the immediate vicinity. Selected transcripts available. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1992-003.
PRESTON, SARAH BUCHANAN (1778-1846). LAND DEED, 1835. 0.1 cu. ft. Born in Smyth County, Virginia; died in Abingdon, Virginia. Manuscript copy of a land transfer indenture statement for lands in Russell, Tazewell, and Scott counties, Virginia. Sold by Preston to John and Edward Fulton of Washington County, Virginia. Ms87-034.
PRESTON, THOMAS L. LETTER, 1860. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Campbell County, Virginia. Letter to John M. Preston of Smyth County, Virginia, regarding personal matters and health and ending with comments on the political climate and the possibility of an impending civil war. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-041.
PRESTON, WILLIAM (1729-83). LAND GRANT, 1773. 1 item. Surveyor and militiaman. Born in Ireland, came to the American colonies in 1738. Settled in area of Virginia that is now Montgomery County. Established the plantation "Smithfield" in 1773, which is now near the Virginia Tech campus and run by the Montgomery County branch of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Land grant is for 2175 acres in Botetourt County, Virginia (now the land that is Smithfield), purchased by Preston, signed by British King George III and Virginia colonial Governor John Murray Dunmore. Ms94-027.
PRESTON AND OLIN INSTITUTE. RECORDS, 1852-71, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Academic institute in Blacksburg, Virginia, that opened in 1854 under the name of Olin and Preston Institute. Closed during the Civil War, and then reopened as the Preston and Olin Institute. Was given to the state of Virginia in 1872 and its buildings were used for a new land-grant college, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College, (now Virginia Tech). Records consist of a book (1853-57) with lists of trustees of the Institute and subscribers, a program (1871) of the anniversary celebration of the Preston Literary Society, and reports of the Committee on Seminaries (1852-54, n.d.). Ms64-001.
PRESTON FAMILY (ALICE PRESTON MOORE COLLECTION). PAPERS, 1745-1882. 235 items. Pioneer Montgomery, Botetourt, and Washington County, Virginia, family. Papers include business transactions, land surveys, and general store accounts (1745-89) relating to Willaim and Susannah Smith Preston; correspondence, business transactions, and notes on farm affairs (1782-1828) relating to their son, John Preston; correspondence and land surveys (1840-82) relating to John, William A., and Alfred G. Preston; correspondence (1848-61) relating to William Ballard Preston; and a day book (1789-1820) of the Prestons of Washington Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. County. Ms62-004.
PRESTON FAMILY (CHARLES PEALE DIDIER COLLECTION). PAPERS, 1747-1897. 282 items. Separate collection from the Preston family collection listed above. Papers include surveys, promissory notes, and land indentures (1747-70) relating to James Patton; list of quit rents in the Middle District of Augusta (1759-60); promissory notes and correspondence (1755-1806) relating to William Preston; and correspondence, surveys, and business papers (1780-1830) relating to John Preston. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1985-020.
PRICE, HARVEY LEE (1874-1951). PAPERS, 1853, 1927-49. 1.67 cu. ft. Descendant of early Montgomery County, Virginia, settlers. Price obtained his B.S. in 1898 from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and became a faculty member in the Horticulture Department (1900-50) and a School of Agriculture administrator (1908-48). Price had a strong avocational interest in genealogy and local history, and wrote Outlines Of Montgomery County Families (1940) which, though never published, has proved a valuable source for genealogists and historians. Collection includes Price's extensive notes and correspondence which provided much of the information for his book. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms75-001.
PRICE, JAMES BANE (1832-1896). ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1871-1897. 0.7 cu. ft. Proprietor of general store in Prices Fork (Montgomery Co.), Virginia. Collection consists of eight books detailing daily transactions, expenditures and customer accounts. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms88-008.
PRICE, JIMMIE L. PAPERS, 1986-87. 3 videotapes and 0.1 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia, resident and local historian. Collection consists of three videotapes of interviews conducted by Price with Montgomery County residents, including an interview in 1986 with Elizabeth Kent Adams about the Kentland property interviews conducted in 1987 with four Montgomery County residents, including Robert H. Surface, Albert Hamlin, Evans Linkous, and Arnold Linkous, about coal mines and mining in the county; and an interview with Frank Bannister of Montgomery County, whose ancesters were slaves and later servants at Kentland. Also includes sketches of Kentland and coal operations, drawn by Price as described by the interviewees. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms87-048.
PRODUCE COMPANY. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1921-30 2 vols. Montgomery County, Virginia, store. Customer accounts. Ms40-029.
PULASKI IRON COMPANY. TITLE ABSTRACTS, 1910-1918. 1.2 cu. ft. Iron furnace operating in Pulaski County, Virginia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Transcripts of land grants, deeds, surveys, wills, other legal documents and correspondence relating to various tracts of land conveyed to the company in Augusta, Botetourt, Pulaski, Roanoke and Wythe counties, Virginia. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms94-025.
RALEIGH COAL & COKE COMPANY. RAIL SPUR DRAWING, 1920. 0.1 cu. ft. Coal mining company operating in Raleigh County, West Virginia during the first half of the twentieth century. As-built drawing for a rail spur line to the company�s Number 3 Mine, located on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway�s Piney Creek Branch (New River District). Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-039.
REED ISLAND IRON COMPANY. RECEIPTS, 1894-1896. 0.1 cu. ft. Iron company located in Pulaski County, Virginia. Two receipts issued to the company from Dora Furnace Company and wholesale grocers Robinson, Tate & Company of Dublin, Virginia. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-040.
REYNOLDS, CATHLEEN CARLSON. MANUSCRIPT THESIS, 1987. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Marion, Virginia, and Civil War historian. Collection consists of a copy of "A Pragmatic Loyalty: Unionism in Southwestern in Pulaski, Virginia. Incorporated in Virginia, 1861-1865," Reynolds's 1987 master's thesis for the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Ms91-038.
RICE, DAVID S. (1833-1878). FAMILY PAPERS, 1857-1894. 0.1 cu. ft. Farmer in Rockingham County, Virginia. Family-related documents including three deeds and pages, possibly extracted from a family Bible, providing genealogical information on Rice, his wife Tabitha, and their children. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-067.
RITTENHOUR, JOHN. DEED, 1795. 0.1 cu. ft. Deed for 300 acres on obtained his B.S. in Sinking Creek of the New River in Montgomery County, Virginia, granted to Rittenhour, assignee of Michael Drake. Ms76-004.
ROAD COMPANY, THE. RECORDS, 1972-98. 30.0 cu. ft. Community-based theater company in Johnson City, Tennessee, dedicated to the production of new theater reflecting the concerns and interests of the community, based on the premise that theater is a community event. Established in 1972, produced plays about southern community history, frontier experiences in democracy, ancient and modern myths, the moonshine trade, land issues, wild lemons, love stories, and the impact of the world energy situation on Johnson City. Many of the plays performed were original works created for the company. Worked collaboratively with other community theaters. Closed up production in 1998. Records include administrative files, touring information, scripts, video and audiocassettes of productions, and public relations material. Unprocessed. Ms98-008.
ROANOKE AND SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY. CHARTER AMENDMENT, 1893. 0.1 cu. ft. Railroad company leasing a line between Roanoke, Virginia and Winston-Salem, North Carolina to Norfolk & Western Railroad Company. Flyer containing text charter amendment, granting the company the power to sell and lease property and to merge and consolidate with other companies. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-018.
ROANOKE RAILWAY AND ELECTRIC COMPANY. PHOTO ALBUM, c.1909. 0.3 cu. ft. Photo album featuring images of the Roanoke Railway and Electric Company buildings and lines, as well as scenic views within the Roanoke area. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Images from the album are available on the VT Imagebase. Ms2003-002.
[ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, SCRAPBOOK, ca. 1932.] 1 item. Scrapbook apparently compiled by officials of the city of Roanoke, with information on Roanoke's economic, cultural, and social advantages. Ms32-001.
ROBINSON, DAVID TOBIAS. CONFEDERATE COMPANY LIST, ca. 1861- 63. 0.1 cu. ft. Confederate soldier in the Civil War. Manuscript list of Company E, 4th Virginia Volunteer Regiment, written by Robinson, listing rank, age, eye and hair color, occupation, and other information about the men in the company, most of them from Southwest Virginia counties. Also includes an itemized list of clothing distributed to each man. Ms92-017.
ROBINSON, W. LETTER, 1810. 0.1 cu. ft., 1 item. Pittsylvania County, Virginia, slave owner. Letter to Botetourt County,Virginia, man about slaves Robinson sent him. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms88-068.
[ROLL OF BUFFALO GUARDS, n.d.]. 0.1 cu. ft., 1 item. Typescript listing lots for sale or sold. Norfolk and listing of men in a Confederate regiment from Buffalo, Virginia (later listing lots forWest Virginia), and the Kanawha Valley, that mustered into service May 13, 1861, during the Civil War. Soon became part of the 36th Virginia Infantry as Company A, under John McGausland's command. Lists officers (including Captain William E. Fife and First Lieutnenant B.B. Sterrett) and privates, with indication of whether or not they were killed, wounded, or had died. Ms96-004.
ROLLER VALLEY MILL [CRAIG COUNTY, VIRGINIA]. SCRAPBOOK, 1986. 1 vol. Abandoned flour mill in Craig County, Virginia. Handwritten survey (1881-95, 1.5 cu. ft.). of the mill done for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (Montgomery County Branch). Ms86-019.
ROSEMONT CORPORATION. LEDGERS, 1939-60. 2 vols. Quilt and coverlet makers of Marion, Virginia. Collection includes ledgers of business transactions and expenses. Ms87-029.
ST. CLAIR RAILROAD AND COAL COMPANY. RECORDS, 1853-63. Ms84-139.
SANDERS, HARRY W. (1895-1985). PAPERS, 1916-67. 1.2 cu. ft. Born in Dumbarton, Virginia. Received B.S. in 1916 from Virginia Tech. Professor of Agricultural Education (1925-51) and Vocational Education (1940-63) at Virginia Tech. Professor Emeritus of Vocational Education (1963-85). Co-founder of the Future Farmers of Virginia, which grew into the Future Farmers of America. Collection consists of scrapbooks, photographs, articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and awards from Sanders' personal life and professional career, and materials related to his leave of absence from Virginia Tech (1932/33) while developing a Vocational Agricultural Education program in Puerto Rico. Scrapbooks include newspaper clippings about Blacksburg history, including clubs, organizations, churches, and community members. Ms75-002.
SARVEY, RUFUS. PAPERS, 1845-83. 0.1 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia, general store owner. Two account books (1845-46, 1872-74), a partnership agreement (1879) between Sarvey and Thomas N. Conrad, and an agreement (1883) of sale for goods sold to Charles Lyle. Ms62-003.
SCARLETT, SHANNON TAYLOR. PAPERS, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Principal of Shannon Taylor Scarlett, Architects, of Boston, Massachusetts, since 1991. Won first prize in a design competition for a library and civic center in Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1992. Papers consist of a curriculum vitae, a firm biography, and a description of the Blacksburg library and civic center design. International Archive of Women in Architecture. Ms95-010.
[SCHOOLMASTER'S JOURNAL, 1846]. 0.1 cu. ft. Journal/diary of a schoolmaster in Southwest Virginia (probably near Abingdon). Notes provisions bought for the school, tuition paid, and dealings with various merchants and neighbors. Ms90-010.
[SCOTT COUNTY, VIRGINIA AMNESTY OATH REGISTER], 1865-1866. 0.1 cu. ft. Ledger containing list of men, mostly from Scott County, Virginia, including names, ages, occupations, and places of residence. Believed to be names of local residents to whom the amnesty oath was administered following the Civil War. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-022.
SCOTT, R. A. DIARY, 1877-1882. 0.1 cu. ft. Overseer of [rail] roads from Augusta County, Virginia. Diary and two receipts. Diary entries discuss the railroad, farming, religion, and local deaths.Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-53.
SELDEN, HENRY COURTENAY (1846-1864). LETTERS, 1861-1864. 0.1 cu. ft. Student at Washington College (now Washington & Lee University) and private in 3rd Virginia Cavalry during the Civil War. Letters to sister Mollie regarding schoolwork, family members, personal acquaintances, war news and rumors. Letter of May 18, 1863 describes funeral procession and burial of Confederate General Thomas J. �Stonewall� Jackson; another letter mentions the 3rd Virginia's recent battles. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-015.
SHACKELFORD, GEORGE GREEN. PAPERS, ca. 1955-86. 10.0 cu. ft. Professor of History (1954-86) and Professor Emeritus since 1986 at Virginia Tech. Served on the Board of Advisors of the National Trust for Historic Preservation and on the board of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Collection includes clippings, correspondence, memoranda, bulletins, scrapbooks, and other materials relating to the APVA; the New River Historical Association; Virginia Landmark Commission; the National Trust; the Democratic Committee of Montgomery County (Virginia); the Visiting Scholar Committee of the College of Arts and Sciences for Virginia Tech; Blacksburg, Virginia, and Southwest Virginia history; historic properties in Blacksburg and Southwest Virginia, particularly Smithfield Plantation; and of Virginia and Virginia Tech related topics. Restricted access. Unprocessed. Ms83-008.
SHACKELFORD, GRACE. PAPERS, 1962-65, n.d. 0.2cu. ft. Architect of Blacksburg, Virginia. Collection consists of architectural drawings for seven residences in Blacksburg, Montgomery County, and Woolwine, Virginia, designed or altered by Shackelford. International Archive of Women in Architecture. Ms90-046.
SHEFFEY, JOHN P. (1837-1905). PAPERS, 1853-1989. .5 cu. ft. Attorney and judge from Smyth County, Virginia. Confederate captain in Company A, 8th Virginia Cavalry. Papers include correspondence written by Sheffey to his wife from various camps in West Virginia and southwestern Virginia, discussing personal matters as well as military activities and war-time social conditions. Other correspondents include Sheffey's sisters Margaret and Ellen, as well as other southwestern Virginia relatives and friends. Also included are documents related to Sheffey's military career, twentieth-century newspaper articles regarding the Civil War in southwestern Virginia, and other Sheffey family papers. Transcripts are available for the 1861-1862 correspondence. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms2001-060.
SHELL FAMILY. PAPERS, 1871-1932. 0.1 cu ft. Includes a typescript copy of a sketch of the Shell or "Schull" family, early settlers of Montgomery County, Virginia. Originally dictated by John H. Shell in 1871. Centers around Jacob Shell (1720-1803), who came to the Price's Fork section of Montgomery County in the mid-eighteenth century. Mentions other early settlers, Indian raids, and the Indian captivity of "Mrs. English" and "Mrs. Bingamen." The two-page transcript was made in 1959 by Vernon McT. Shell of Arden, North Carolina. Also includes correspondence of Bernard Shell concerning Shell family history, together with related typescript notes, newsclippings and ephemera. Ms59-001.
SIBOLD, CARRIE T. (1904-90). PAPERS, 1912-26, 1966-90. 9.0 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia, resident, and one of the first women graduates of Virginia Tech (1925). Papers consist of scrapbooks containing clippings about Blacksburg history, local church activities, and Virginia Tech (1966-90). Also includes diplomas from Blacksburg high school (1912-26) for Carrie and members of the Sibold family. Unprocessed. Ms90-043.
SLUSSER FAMILY. PAPERS, 1852-1909. 0.1 cu. ft. Montgomery County, Virginia, family. Includes loose ledger sheets (1852-58) for the household expenditures of Dr. John B. Slusser with pencil drawings from 1885(?) by Murray C. Slusser; advertisement of a mine car from the Pressed Steel Car Company (n.d.); sheet from an account book, "In account with the dining hall of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute" (1909); a U.S. patent application, January 30, 1894, for the invention of an improved nut-lock by Murray C. and William J. Slusser; and pages from a personal account book. Ms60-001.
"SMART" ROAD CITIZEN'S ADVISORY COMMITTEE. RECORDS, 1993-97. 0.6 cu. ft. The "Smart" Road is a project designed by the Virginia Department of Transportation to build a roadway as a direct link between Blacksburg and Roanoke, Virginia. Its construction is meant to alleviate congestion on Route 460 in Christiansburg and Blacksburg, Virginia, and to serve as a testsite for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS), or "smart highway" technology. A citizen's advisory committee was formed in 1994 to advise VDOT about the environmental and social ramifications of building the new roadway, as well as its overal design. The records were collected by Dorothy Bodell, a member of the committee from January 1995 to July 1997. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms97-025.
SMITH FAMILY. LETTERS, 1861-65, 1912, 1975, 1996 n.d. 0.2 cu. ft. Collection consists of forty-nine letters written by the brothers of the Smith family of Carroll County, Virginia, almost exclusively while most of them served as soldiers for the Confederacy during the Civil War. The brothers include James R. Smith (1831-63), who served in Company I of the 50th Virginia Regiment; Stephen Mitchell Smith (1832-1913), who was initially exempt from military service because he was the only blacksmith in the area, but later served with Company G of the 54th Virginia Regiment; William Alexander Smith (1835-68), who served in Company I of the 50th Virginia Regiment; and Barton Pierce Smith (1838-63) who enlisted in February 1863 and served in Company D of the 29th Virginia Regiment as a hospital steward. Most are written to Stephen Mitchell Smith from encampments in Virginia. Also includes genealogical information about the family compiled in 1975 by Frederick R. Smith of Hardy, Virginia. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1996-018.
SMITH, AUGUSTUS. CORRESPONDENCE, 1864-66. 0.1 cu. ft. Civil War Confederate soldier. Two letters--one from Smith in Greenville, Tennessee, (1864) to his mother, and one to General Alex E. Smith, his father in Rural Mount, Virginia (1866), from an unknown person, telling of his daughter-inlaw's death. Also includes newsclippings concerning the Civil War and Smiths family genealogy. Ms85-017.
SMITHEY & BOYNTON. RECORDS, 1922-77. 60.0 cu. ft. and 1500 rolls of architectural drawings. Architectural firm in Roanoke, Virginia, established in 1935 by Louis Phillipe Smithey and Henry B. Boynton. Records consist of about 1500 designs of residences, churches, businesses, schools, and community buildings predominently in the Roanoke and Southwest Virginia area, designed mostly between 1935 and 1977. Materials consist of project files, specifications, framed drawings and photographs, and architectural drawings. Includes designs done by Smithey before he collaborated with Boynton, as well as designs done by other firms of projects later redesigned by Smithey & Boynton. Ms92-027.
SMITHFIELD PRESTON FOUNDATION. PAPERS, 1784-1881, n.d. 204 items. Collection consists of letters written by two generations of members of the Preston family of southwest Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, to James and Sarah Preston McDowell in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Most of the correspondents are the children and grandchildren of William and Susanna Smith Preston, settlers of Montgomery County, Virginia, who built their home, "Smithfield," in 1772. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1997-002.
SNAVELY, A.L. PAPERS, 1905-49. 0.4 cu. ft. Account books, diaries, and memobooks of a Crockett, Wythe County, Virginia, owner of a stock and produce farm. Papers include records on stock births, bank withdrawals, a certificate of membership in the International Corps of Mercer Heirs, and sales of produce. Ms89-014.
SNAVELY, AARON (1825-1880). POEM, [1863?]. 0.1 cu. ft. Wythe County, Virginia physician. Poem titled "Remember Sarah Jane," lamenting the recent death and burial of Snavely's wife. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-001.
SNIDER, JOHN N. (1834-97). LETTER, 1863. 0.1 cu. ft. Soldier in the 14th Virginia Cavalry, Jenkins Brigade, during the Civil War. Letter from Snider in "Camp near Salem" to his sister. Writes about the high price of food and that there is preaching in the camp every Sunday. Ms91-063.
SOLITUDE. PHOTOGRAPHS and PAPERS, 1960s-80s. 0.3 cu. ft. Historic home of Blacksburg, Virginia, built by the Preston family in the early 1800s. Purchased by the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) in 1872, and remains the oldest building on campus. Photographs consist of thirty-four mounted photographs of various views and details of Solitude, with identifying labels. Also includes other papers, such as newspaper clippings and postcards, with information about Solitude. Ms93-024.
[SOLITUDE LETTER, 1860.] 0.1 cu. ft. Letter written December 27, 1860, from an unidentified man at Solitude, the Preston family home in Blacksburg, Virginia, to "Miss Martha." Ms90-138.
SOMMERVILLE, HENRY CLAY (1834-1918). LETTERS, 1862, 1864. 0.1 cu. ft. Born in Hampshire County, Virginia; surgeon for the Confederate Army during the Civil War. Collection consists of letters, written mostly from January to April, 1864, to Sommerville while in Danville and Lynchburg, Virginia, from friends in Liberty (now Bedford), Virginia. Most of the letters focus on town news and gossip. Ms91-045.
STERN OLD BACHELOR'S CLUB [BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA]. MINUTE BOOK, 1928-32. 0.1 cu. ft. Men's social club in Blacksburg, Virginia, whose motto was "Millions for defense, but not one cent for matrimony." Photocopy of a minute book listing officers and members, including Gordon Organized in 1894 Bennett, Mason Heavener, Baxter Johnston, Champ Lester, Harvey Lee Price, and David Slusser; and the club's constitution. Ms90-017.
SULLIVAN FAMILY. PAPERS, 1869-1902. 0.8 cu. ft. Early Christiansburg, Virginia, family. Collection includes correspondence (1883-89); ledger books for Blacksburg, Virginia district taxes (1885), Virginia House of Delegates (1891-92), and Lorentz and Sullivan's mill (1882-1884); and photographs, brochures (1884), news clippings (n.d.), and receipts (1881-84). Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms56-001.
SUPERIOR ANTHRACITE MINES. FIRE BOSS REPORTS, 1929-1953. 0.3 cu. ft. Coal mining operation in McCoy (Montgomery County), Virginia. Daily reports of fire boss for the company’s Big Vein Mine, describing mine conditions. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-131.
SURFACE (ZERFASS) FAMILY. GENEALOGY, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Copy of extensive genealogy of the Surface, or Zerfass, family of Virginia, Indiana, and Ohio. Compiled by Clyde S. Boots of Isabel, Kansas. Contains thorough family trees of the family members; cemetery records of Johnson County, Indiana; records of the Price Family of Montgomery County, Virginia, who intermarried with the Surfaces; brief census statistics from 19th century Montgomery County, Virginia; biographies of select members of the family; and copies of the wills (1805 and 1808) of John Surface and John Surface, Jr. Ms70-001.
SUTTON-MARTIN-MASON FAMILY. PAPERS, 1861-1968. .2 cu. ft. Pulaski County, Virginia family. Papers consist largely of correspondence to Rachel Louisa Sutton (later married to David H. Martin) from friends and family during the 1860s. Many letters comment on the Civil War, particularly conditions in Southwest Virginia. Others discuss Martha Washington College (Abingdon, Virginia), its classes, and related activities. Also contains deeds, family financial records, poetry, photographs and assorted ephemera. A small collection of materials belonging to the Martins' granddaughter, Elinor Mason, completes the collection. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms2003-013.
TANT, MARTHA ANN HITE. GENEALOGY RECORDS, 1991. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Kingsport, Tennessee, and genealogy researcher. Records include pedigree charts, Bible records, and family group listings of 300 years of Tant's ancestors, including the Brown, Haden, Harman, Hite, Linkous, Marrs, May, Salmons, and Trollinger families, who settled in Henry, Montgomery, Pittsylvania, and Tazewell counties, Virginia, and in Kentucky. Ms91-040.
TARTER, W.J. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1895-1917. 4 vols. Wythe County, Virginia, post office and general store. Account books. Ms40-027.
TATE, LELAND B. (1905- ). PAPERS, 1940-57. 0.2 cu. ft. Professor (1937-71) and Professor Emeritus (1972- ) of Rural Sociology at Virginia Tech. Papers include a scrapbook of clippings about Blacksburg, Virginia, community development (1940-41) and a paper, "Facts about Virginia's People," compiled by Tate and George Blume (ca. 1957). Ms56-004.
TAYLOR, ROBERT A. BUSINESS PAPERS, 1825-26. 0.2 cu. ft. Ginsing Christiansburg, Virginia, family. Collection includes corres merchant from Baltimore, Maryland. Records deal with sales of ginsing to the Preston family of Abingdon, Virginia. Includes invoices and correspondence. Ms84-173.
THOMAS, WILLIAM. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1845-52. 1 vol. Montgomery County, Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-031.
THOMAS WOOD AND COMPANY. FREIGHT RECORDS, 1881-1886. 0.2 cu. ft. General mercantile business in Max Meadows, Virginia during the latter nineteenth century. Bills for freight received on the Norfolk & Western Railroad for foodstuffs, clothing, hardware, agricultural equipment, furniture and other household goods. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-045.
THURSDAY BOOK CLUB [BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA]. RECORDS, 1926- 68. 0.1 cu. ft. Book club organized by women residents of Blacksburg, Virginia, in 1928. Originally called the Round Dozen Book Club. Records consist of meeting minutes (1928-30, 1936-42) and cards (1963-64, 1967-68) listing order in which the books were passed among the members. Also includes a newspaper clipping (January 1944) marking the twenty-sixth year of the Thursday Book Club. Ms97-004.
[TIMBERVILLE, VIRGINIA AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR SHOP]. LEDGER, 1924-1926. 0.1 cu. ft. Ledger of unidentified automobile repair shop in Timberville, Virginia, providing customer names together with itemized charges for parts and labor on repairs and maintenance. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-017.
TISE, J.M. LEDGER AND TISE FAMILY RECEIPTS, ca. 1798-ca. 1937. 1 li. ft. Account book kept by J.M. Tise, manager of the Floyd County Electric Company at Sower's Mill Dam in Floyd County, ca. 1923-ca. 1937. The collection also contains ca. 100 miscellaneous receipts kept by the Tise family, ca. 1798-ca. 1860. Ms2002-034.
TRENT, CLARENCE E. PAPERS, 1981-84. 0.1 cu. ft. Professor of Mechanical Engineering (1931-73) and Professor Emeritus at Virginia Tech. Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and has served on the Virginia Section's History and Heritage Committee. Primary force in bringing about the selection of two National Historical Landmarks: the Jackson Ferry Shot Tower at Fort Chiswell, and Norfolk and Western's 611 steam locomotive. Collection consists of materials related to these two historical landmarks. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms85-010.
TUCKER, MATTIE LAMB (1893-1985). PAPERS, 1945-1984. 0.2 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia Red Cross nurse and social worker. Certificates, newspaper clippings (mostly recognizing Tucker for volunteer efforts); photographs; correspondence and other printed material relating to her and her family's activities--particularly her son, Henry Tucker, a marine killed on Iwo Jima during World War II. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms84-176.
TUESDAY AFTERNOON BOOK CLUB. RECORDS, 1933-1989. 0.5 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia club, which met to discuss books and current affairs. Programs, minutes books, a club history, and a list of checked out books. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms89-052.
TURNER FAMILY. GENEALOGY PAPERS, ca. 1980s. 0.1 cu. ft. Genealogical information about the Turner family of Snowcreek in Franklin County, Virginia. Meshack Taylor (1819 or1820-1877) served in Company E of the 64th Virginia Regiment during the Civil War. Collection includes a photocopy of a letter written by Turner to his wife Sallie from Farrow Grownds near Norfolk, Virginia, on April 13, 1862. Also includes a genealogy compiled by Helen Turner of Lawton, Oklahoma, on "The Turners of Snowcreek", which consists of transcripts of wills, research notes, Meshack Turner's Civil War record, and family trees of the Turner descendents. Ms94-002.
TYLER, J. HOGE (1846-1925). FAMILY PAPERS, 1802-1956. 42.0 cu. ft. Virginia state senator (1877-1879), lieutenant governor (1890-1894), and governor (1898-1902). Papers contain Tyler's political, business, and personal correspondence, including 38 bound volumes of official gubernatorial correspondence; manuscript drafts of speeches; applications and endorsements for state positions; subject files; and other political correspondence. Business records include ledgers and store books for the Belle Hampton Coal Company (1884-1892) and records of the Radford Development Company (1890-1922). Other papers relate to Tyler's wife, Sue Hammett Tyler, and her family, and include account books and miscellaneous papers (1851-1876) of Dr. J. P. Hammett, a Montgomery County, Virginia physician, and ledgers for the Aldomar and Lammermoor plantations in Mississippi (1857-1872). Included also are the Spanish-American War paymaster records of S. Heth Tyler (1898); correspondence of other Tyler children and grandchildren; scrapbooks; photographs; and printed materials. Also included are papers of the Sifford family of Pulaski County, Virginia. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. 67-002.
UNDERHILL, GROVER W. PAPERS, 1935. 0.1 cu. ft. Professor of Entomology (1918-54) at Virginia Tech, at the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station. Collection consists of a radio talk entitled "The Insect Menace to Log Cabins and Rustic Woodwork." Ms87-014.
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF THE NEW RIVER VALLEY. RECORDS, 1958-87. 0.2 cu. ft. Founded as the Blacksburg [Virginia] Unitarian fellowship in 1956; changed name in 1986. Materials include a notebook with essays about the history, programs, etc. of the fellowship; newsclippings; reports; and newsletters. Unprocessed. Ms88-001.
UNITED DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY, DR. HARVY BLACK CHAPTER. RECORDS, 1862-1999. 3.4 cu. ft. Blacksburg, Virginia chapter (formed 1896) of national organization of Confederate veterans' female descendents. Records include files devoted to local Confederate veterans (including letters of Elisha Epperson, 67th Virginia Infantry), chapter financial records, minute books, membership records, financial records, printed materials and scrapbooks. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms90-050.
URQUHART, LUCY DICKINSON. PAPERS, 1900-70. 0.4 cu. ft. Smyth County and Lynchburg, Virginia, advertising copywriter. Papers include correspondence, advertising copy, newspaper clippings, and poetry. Unprocessed. Ms87-046.
VIAR, GEORGE W. PAPERS, 1862-63. 0.1 cu. ft. Soldier in Company E of the 24th Virginia Volunteer Regiment during the Civil War. Papers consist of reports by surgeons in Dublin, Virginia, of their examinations of Viar, declaring him unfit for field duty. Also includes a note by a fellow soldier of Viar's to his family with saying that he is sending Entomolodocuments home with Viar. Ms90-036.
VINSON, WILLIAM (ca. 1819-1883). LETTER, 1854. 0.1 cu. ft. Member, Virginia House of Delegates, 1853-1854. Letter to family at home in Wayne County, (West) Virginia, discussing Vinson's attempts in the general assembly to secure roads and mail routes, his children's education, health and weather conditions in Richmond, and winnings from local lotteries. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-048.
VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. RECORDS, 1906- 47. 50.0 Experiment Station. Collection consists of a radcu. ft. Established in 1886 by an Act of the Virginia General Assembly and funded by the Hatch Act of 1887, the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station was not established physically until 1888. Responsible for several agricultural research stations and laboratories throughout the state. Collection includes farm survey work sheets and work reports on such agricultural subjects as insecticides, cattle, orchards, and crop rotations. Collection also includes statistical surveys for farm operations and production in ten Virginia counties, including: Albemarle (1935, 2 vols.), Appomattox (1935-36, 4 vols.), Floyd (1937, 2 vols.), Grayson (1930-31, 8 vols.), Halifax (1939, 7 vols.), Henry (1940, 7 vols.), Nansemond (1932, 17 vols.), Norfolk (1931-32, 7 vols.), Pittsylvania (1933-36, 42 vols.), and Russell (1935, 9 vols.). Also included are Poultry surveys (1931-32, 9 vols.) encompassing several Virginia counties, and a Truck survey (1938, 2 vols.) listed by names of farmer. Farm surveys include information on dairy production, land tenure, feed and supplies, livestock, equipment, and crops. RG25/1.
VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION, VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE. HOME ECONOMICS STUDY OF GRAYSON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, FAMILIES, 1931. 18 vols. Study by VPI Home Economics Department of statistics concerning Grayson County families, including schooling, education, household expenditures, occupations, food, and clothing. Also includes 46 "cards," or first draft tabulation sheets, plus an index, a list of the families, and a card outline. Ms40-023.
VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD COMPANY. LETTERS, 1849. 0.1 cu. ft. Railroad chartered in 1849 and built in the 1850s. Letters to former senator William S. Archer informing him of his election as delegate to the V&T's July convention in Memphis, Tennessee. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-077.
VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM PERSONNEL. RECORDS, 1970-97. 2.0 cu. ft. Established in 1974 as an organization to bring together those who are professionally involved in broadening And Western Railwayaccessibility to and success in the formal post-secondary education of economically or socially disadvantaged Virginians. Records include administrative information, correspondence, and meeting minutes. Unprocessed. Ms89-003.
VIRGINIA IRON, COAL AND COKE COMPANY. RECEIPTS, 1902-1909. 0.1 cu. ft. Mineral company operating several plants in Southwest Virginia. Receipts for various purchases made by the company. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-046.
VIRGINIA VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. RECORDS, 1894- 1961. 0.8 cu. ft. Incorporated in 1894 for the purpose of advancing veterinary medical knowledge throughout Virginia. Records include annual meeting minutes, minutes of the Board of Censors, programs, speeches, a history of the organization, and a list of presidents. Ms88-052.
WADE, JANE. LETTER, 1864. 0.1 cu. ft. Photocopy of a letter from Wade in Christiansburg, Virginia, written on May 15, 1864, to her husband John, a soldier in the Confederate Army in the Civil War. She writes about the "Yanks advancing on Dublin [Virginia] and burning town buildings," the wounded, and looting by the Yankee soldiers. Transcript available. Ms87-049.
WAGG, JOHN D. (1835-66). PAPERS, 1854-66. 0.4 cu. ft. Methodist Virginia. minister who practiced as a circuit preacher in the Virginia counties of Giles, Russell, and Wise in the late 1850s and early 1860s. In late 1862 or early 1863 he assumed ministerial duties in Ashville, North Carolina. Papers consist of correspondence, diaries, sermons, church documents, and miscellaneous poems and essays. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms1992-048.
WALKER AND CALDWELL. LEGAL AND BUSINESS RECORDS, 1839- 1934. 2.0 cu. ft. Wytheville, Virginia, law firm, of James A. Walker (1832-1901) and Manly M. Caldwell (1861?-1938?). Much of the collection relates to land ownership, particularly mineral rights for property in Rye Valley, Wythe County, Virginia, and adjacent areas; and to business, industrial, the Virginian Railway Company. Records include stockholde and mineral interests in the area, including the Wythe County Iron and Zinc Company, New River Cripple Creek Mineral Territory, Princeton (West directors' minutes (1907-08, 1 vol.); Virginia) Banking Company, Edgewood Land Company, Botetourt Tramway Company, and the "Mosby Gold Mine," in Fluvanna County, Virginia. Ms73-012.
WALL, ALEXANDER FLOYD (ca. 1826-ca. 1899). CORRESPONDENCE, 1861-65. 0.1 cu. ft. Farmer in Montgomery County, Virginia. Collection Wes consists of copies of three letters, 1862-65, from Wall to his brother-in-law, Waddy Thompson James (1836-1926 or 1931), a Captain and then Lieutenant Colonel in Company B of the 57th Virginia Infantry during the Civil War. Wall's letters describe conditions on his farm during the war, prices of crops, problems of getting supplies to soldiers, and the transfer of slaves. Company B, or the "Franklin Sharpshooters," was organized by James of men from Franklin County, Virginia. James was injured in the Battle of Malvern Hill (July 1862), resigned from service soon thereafter, and returned his farm in Franklin County. Also includes one letter from James to his wife Jennie, written from Camp Belcher in Richmond, Virginia, on October 4, 1861, and biographical and military information about James and his career as a soldier. After the war James served in the Virginia House of Delegates (1864-78) and the Virginia Senate (1879-82) as a representative from Franklin County. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms82-007.
WALLACE, SAMUEL. DEED, 1832. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Scott County, Virginia. Contract between Wallace and John Allan of Tazewell County, Virginia, for sale of land. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-050.
WALTHALL, J.G. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1906. 1 vol. Montgomery County, Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-030.
WALTON FAMILY. CORRESPONDENCE, 1861-84, n.d. 0.1 cu. ft. Floyd County, Virginia, family. S.L. Walton joined the Confederate Army in 1861 and served in the 42nd Virginia Regiment and the 1st Virginia Battalion. He was captured in April 1865 and taken to Point Lookout, Maryland, where he was released in June. Collection consists of seventeen letters and notes to and from Walton, his parents, his wife Nancy Ann, his brother, and cousins. Ms55-001.
WAMPLER, WILLIAM C. CONGRESSIONAL PAPERS, 1967-82. Ca. 200 cu. ft. Republican representative from Virginia's Ninth Congressional District, 1953-54, 1967-82. Papers include legislative files, committee files (House Agriculture Committee, Select Committee on Aging), constituency correspondence, speeches, and photographs. Restricted access. Unprocessed. Ms82-003.
WATKINS, SESSLER (1892-1966). LETTER. 0.1 cu. ft. Employee of a West Virginia mining company at the turn of the twentieth century. Letter from Watkins in Cary, West Virginia to his mother, Mrs. J. B. Watkins of Troutville, Virginia, concerning his experiences living and working in the mining town. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-084.
WEST, RUBY BISHOP. COLLECTION, 1858-1981. 2 cu. ft. Floyd County educator and local historian. Collection consists largely of materials related to the history of Floyd County, particularly--but not limited to--church, education, county development, and the 1981 county sesquicentennial celebration. Also contains personal materials, including Radford College grade reports and diplomas, personal photographs and ephemera, and a sizeable sheet music collection from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project. Ms86-002.
[WEST VIRGINIA CIVIL WAR CORRESPONDENCE, 1861]. 0.1 cu. ft. Two letters on one sheet from two girls in Western Virginia (now West Virginia) to their aunt. Write of war on the home front and the destruction caused by the Yankee soldiers to their farm. Ms89-006.
WHISNER MEMORIAL METHODIST CHURCH. RECORDS, 1857-1960. 4.0 cu. ft. Church in Blacksburg, Virginia; founded 1798. Records include recording steward's book (1859-60); quarterly conference minutes (1880-1950); church registers (1857-1938); Sunday school records (1879-1911); rolls of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society; Blacksburg Auxiliary (1905-10); Women's Society of Christian Service record and report books (1941-60); and various publications dealing with the history of the church. Ms64-003.
WHITE, ISAAC (1837-89). PAPERS, 1861-1938. 0.2 cu. ft. Assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, White graduated in 1859 from the Medical College of Virginia. He resided in Upshur County, Virginia (now West Virginia) before the war, and then in Shawsville in Montgomery County, Virginia, until his death. He served in various regiments during the war, including the 29th Virginia Infantry Regiment, the 31st Virginia Infantry Regiment, and the 62nd Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiment. He also served, between September 1862 and January 1863 as an assistant surgeon at Montgomery White Sulphur Springs Hospital. The papers consist of letters from White to his wife in Shawsville, written mostly while encamped along the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia in 1863 and 1864. He describes the losses to his regiment suffered during the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1863), the Battles of New Market and Spotsylvania (May 1864), and the Battle of Winchester (September 1864). Finding aid with links to transcripts and images (jpgs) available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms97-013.
WILLIAMS, LEWIS. LETTER, 1835. 0.1 cu. ft. Letter from Williams in Washington, D.C., to Andrew Rincoinnon(?) in Wythe County, Virginia, writing of the postal service from Salem, Virginia to Wythe County. Ms87-032.
WILLIAMS, SAMUEL W. PAPERS, 1868-1919. 0.7 cu. ft. Lawyer in Bland County, Virginia. Notebooks from his law education at the University of Virginia, and ledgers from his business. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms86-012.
WILLS FAMILY. CORRESPONDENCE, 1860-65. 0.1 cu. ft. Bedford, Virginia family. Photocopies of Civil War correspondence from William S., William L., Lindsay T., and Henry H. Wills from various camps, including Jamestown and Richmond, Virginia, and Murfreesboro, North Carolina, to Mollie and Mary Wills. William S. Wills was in the Charlottesville Artillery; Lindsay T. and Henry H. Wills served in the 10th Virginia Cavalry, and then in the Bedford Light Artillery. Ms82-008.
WILSON, B.G. LETTER, 1863. 0.1 cu. ft. Confederate soldier in the Civil War from Danville, Virginia. Letter from Wilson to his brother, December 24, 1863, referring to sickness in the camp and the low morale of the soldiers. Transcript available. Ms88-082.
WILSON, NELSON R. (b. 1856). AUCTION NOTICE, 1932. 0.1 cu. ft. Resident of Bedford County, Virginia. Broadside announcing auction of home and farm property resulting from defaulted loan. Names Henry M. Sackett and Douglas A. Robertson as trustees and Walker, Mosby & Calvert as auctioneers. Reverse side contains agreement of sale to W. H. Slaughter. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2009-016.
WISS, HENRY H. (1913-94). PAPERS, 1960, n.d. 0.2 cu. ft. Professor of Architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State RUniversity from 1947 to 1983. Collection consists of twelve architectural drawings and four photographs of Wiss's private residence in Blacksburg, Virginia, designed by him in 1960. Ms96-013.
WOOD, GREENVILLE D. ACCOUNT BOOKS, 1894-1912. 3 vols. Floyd County, Virginia, general store merchant. Customer accounts. Ms40-028.
WOOD, KASEY AND WOOD. ACCOUNT BOOKS (1864-1889). 0.7 cu.ft. Account books from a general store and zinc distributor in Max Meadows, Virginia. One book documents dealings with the Lehigh Zinc Company of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Mercer Zinc Works of Trenton, New Jersey. Materials include two detailed ledgers, three day books, and one cash book. Finding aid available on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms2008-035.
[WORLD WAR II CIVILIAN RATION BOOKS, 1945.] 0.1 cu. ft. Packet of ration books used by the Porterfield family of Newport, Virginia, during World War II. Ms90-077.
WORLEY, CHARLES S. JR. (1912-95). PAPERS, 1954-62, n.d. 0.5 cu. ft. Professor of Architecture at Virginia Tech from 1947 to 1982, and Professor Emeritus from 1982 until his death in 1995. Papers consist of architectural designs done by Worley, often in partnership with Henry Wiss, also a Virginia Tech Architecture Professor, in the mid-1950s and early 1960s. Also includes photographs of Worley in his home in Blacksburg, Virginia, which he designed, and slides taken by Worley of Blacksburg, Smithfield Plantation, and the Ogunquit Museum of American Art in Maine. Inventory available. Ms96-017.
WORNER, SCOTT. PAPERS, 1995. 2.0 cu. ft. Collection consists of architectural floorplans, photographs, building demographic surveys, and curriculum guides of secondary schools operating in Virginia as of 1995. Worner collected this material as part of his research for his dissertation from the College of Education at Virginia Tech. His study resulted in "A Study of the Architecture and Curriculum of Virginia High Schools," that was part of earning his Ph.D. in Educational Administration. Inventory available. Ms98-015.
YATES, ANNE H. PRICE (1939- ). PAPERS, 1975-1985. 1.0 cu. ft. Co-compiler of Increase in Prices (1985). Correspondence; genealogical charts, notes and documents compiled by Yates and her father, William Conway Price, in the course of writing book. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms89-087.
YELLOW SULPHUR SPRINGS HOTEL [MONTGOMERY COUNTY, VIRGINIA]. ACCOUNT BOOK, 1885-95. 0.5 cu. ft. Montgomery County mountain resort; established in 1810, closed in 1923. Became a Virginia Historic Landmark in 1977. Collection contains a guest register. Images available online (Adobe Acrobat Reader required for viewing). Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage database. Ms40-033.
YOUNG, FIELDS M. PAPERS, 1881-1923. 0.7 cu. ft. Grayson County, Virginia merchant. Includes correspondence relating to personal and financial matters, as well as store business; advertising materials from various manufacturers and wholesalers; financial records; a folder of material relating to Walter R. Hardin and the Roanoke Notion Company; and printed materials. Finding aid available in EAD on the Virginia Heritage Project database. Ms85-018.
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