Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
Found in 1916 Collections and/or Records:
View of Charlottesville, Virginia (reproduction)
Engraving shows Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1856, largely focusing on the University of Virginia. Reproduction was made in 1973.
William Vinson Letter
The collection contains a letter from Virginia House of Delegates member William Vinson (1819=1883) to his family at home in Wayne County, (West) Virginia, discussing his attempts in the general assembly to secure roads and mail routes, his children's education, health and weather conditions in Richmond, and winning local lotteries.
Virginia
Map of Virginia, with parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina (independent and not part of 'Carolina'), which comes from George Washington Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World.
Virginia Academy of Science Records
Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Farm Family Study (Grayson County, Virginia)
The collection contains data from a cooperative study of Grayson County, Virginia, conducted by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics. The study includes raw and tabulated data on family members, education, health, income and expenditures, employment, housing, food, clothing, and household furnishings and supplies.
Records of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station
Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited This Present Year 1670 (reproduction)
This 1970 reproduction consists of the geographic regions of Virginia and Maryland as charted in 1670, and it contains illustrations of the cartographer, native peoples, and a coat of arms.
Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited This Present Year 1670 (reproduction)
This 1967 reproduction consists of the geographic regions of Virginia and Maryland as charted in 1670, and it contains illustrations of the cartographer, native peoples, and a coat of arms.
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Letters
The collection contains letters to William S. Archer discussing his election as delegate to the July 1849 convention of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company. Correspondence also discusses the plan to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via railroads.
Virginia Anthracite Coal Company Brush Mountain Property, Montgomery County, Va.
Blueprint map shows property between Brush Mountain and Tom's Creek in Montgomery County, Virginia.