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J.H. Slusser & Son Store Ledger
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-135
Abstract
"Store Book, no. 5, 1912" includes account listings for the J.H. Slusser & Son Coal Company store from 1902 through 1909. John H. Slusser was born in Blacksburg, Virginia on August 28, 1840. Slusser purchased a coal mine on Coal Bank Hollow Road in Blacksburg. The coal company was taken over by John Slusser's son, Murry, after his death in 1909. The M.C. Slusser Coal Company ran the mine until 1950 and served the surrounding areas, include coal supplies for the nearby Virginia...
Dates:
1902 - 1909
"Smart" Road Citizen's Advisory Committee
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-025
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of reports, copies of electronic mail correspondence, brochures, meetings, minutes, and newspaper clippings about the "Smart" Road proposal. This information was collected by Dorothy Bodell of Blacksburg, Virginia, as she served on the citizen's advisory committee from January 1995 to July 1997.
Dates:
1993 - 1997
Smithey & Boynton, Architects & Engineers Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1992-027
Abstract
The collection contains project files and drawings related to more than 1,500 residences, churches, businesses, schools, and community buildings, predominantly in the Roanoke and Southwest Virginia area, designed by Smithey & Boynton, mostly between 1935 and 1957.
Dates:
1922 - 1985
Smithfield Plantation House Architectural Drawings,
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-053
Abstract
Smithfield Plantation is the historic home of the Preston family, one of the founding families of Blacksburg and Montgomery County, Virginia. In November 1958 the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) authorized the organization of the Montgomery County branch for the specific purpose of acquiring and restoring Smithfield Plantation. Restoration of the building was begun in 1962 when the APVA's Montgomery County Branch raised the funds for renovation and...
Dates:
n.d.
Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-002
Abstract
The Smithfield Preston Foundation Papers consist of 200 letters written almost exclusively by two generations of members of the Preston family of southwest Virginia, Kentucky, and South Carolina, to James and Sarah Preston McDowell of Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Dates:
1784-1881, n.d.
Solitude Letter
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-138
Abstract
Love letter written by L'incounnue ("The Unknown") at Solitude (the Preston home in Blacksburg, Virginia) in 1860, and addressed to "Miss Martha."
Dates:
1860
Solitude Photographs and Papers
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-024
Abstract
This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and several other papers containing information about Solitude, the oldest building on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.
Dates:
ca. 1960s-1980s
Southside Garden Club Records
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2007-032
Abstract
Materials in the collection include newspaper clippings, minutes and yearbooks from the Blacksburg Woman's Club and organization reports, minutes, pressbooks, yearbooks, and scrapbooks from the Southside Garden Club.
Dates:
1914 - 2009
Spahr Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: Ms-2005-005
Abstract
The Spahr Family Collection contains records of rent payments at the Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park and clippings about Joel Bush Spahr's landscaping hobby. Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park, run by the Spahrs, operated from 1959 to 1999 on property to the northwest of Blacksburg, Virginia.
Dates:
1959 - 1991
Stern Old Bachelor's Club [Blacksburg, Virginia] Minute Book
Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-017
Abstract
Photocopy of a minute book from the Stern Old Bachelor's Club, a Blacksburg, Virginia men's social club, including the club's constitution, membership lists, and guest registers.
Dates:
1928 - 1932
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