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Box 1

 Container

Contains 6 Results:

Kentland, New River Plantation, 1986

 Item — Box: 1, item: 3
Scope and Content

This VHS videotape consists of a history of Kentland Plantation.

Dates: 1986

Kentland

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Content

This file contains "Kentland", a history of Kentland Plantation; "A Working Sketch of Kentland, 1912-1923 per Frank Bannister"; and "Errors in the Videotape entitled: 'Kentland, New River Plantation' " [transcription and handwritten original].

Dates: 1986 - 2003

Coal Mine Sketches, 1986 - 1991

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Content

This file contains photocopies of a series of approximately 35 sketches by Jimmie L. Price and Everett Graves based on accounts from local Montgomery County residents. The sketches are of coals mines, coal seams, mine tipples, and the associated buildings and housing for Shoal Creek Mine, Brush Mountain Coalfield Central Division, and Big Vein Mine.

Dates: 1986 - 1991

Prices Fork and Its People, 1988

 Item — Box: 1, item: 1
Scope and Content

This VHS videotape is an interview with Frank Bannister of Montgomery County, in which he describes the cattle drives from Tazewell to Kentland, life at Kentland, and the physical layout of the farm. Bannister's family were once slaves on Kentland, and later worked there as servants and laborers.

Dates: 1988

Interviews with Montgomery County Residents about Local Coal Mines, 1987

 Item — Box: 1, item: 2
Scope and Content

This VHS videotape consists of interviews with local Montgomery County residents about their experiences working in the local coal mines. Among those interviewed include Robert H. Surface about fossil and coal mines, Albert Hamlin about the Shoal (Strubble's) Creek mine, Evans Linkous about the Merrimac Mine, and Albert Linkous about the Northside Mine at Price's Mountain.

Dates: 1987

"Josesphine Scrivenor", 1986

 Item — Box: 1, item: 4
Scope and Content

This VHS videotape consists of an interview of Josephine Scrivenor by Price at her home in Roanoke, about her recollections of Kentland Plantation.

Dates: 1986