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Local/Regional History and Appalachian South

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Use this for collections relating to Blacksburg, Montgomery County, Southwest Virginia, West Virginia, and Appalachia.

Found in 1917 Collections and/or Records:

Card, DAR Acceptance Letter to Sue Ellett, January 11, 1911 (Ms1988-047)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988_047_EllettFamily_DAR_Acceptance_1911_0111

John Newton Carnahan Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-112
Abstract

The collection includes American Civil War letters from Private John Newton Carnahan of the 54th Virginia Infantry to his wife, Juliette Sophia Calfee Carnahan, and children in Pulaski County, Virginia.

Dates: 1861 - 1862

Carneal and Johnston Architectural Drawings

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2001-008
Abstract

The Carneal and Johnston Architectural Drawings contains detail drawings, sketches, and tracings of several campus buildings at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Dates: 1939-1968, n.d.

Henry C. Carpenter Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-008
Abstract

The collection consists of Henry C. Carpenter's letters written between February 1862 and June 1864 while encamped in parts of Virginia and West Virginia.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

John Carr Civil War Letters,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-035
Abstract

This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of the Civil War-era letters of Private John Carr, who served with the 2nd Stuart Horse Artillery of the Confederate Army.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

Carroll and Wythe Counties Industries Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-2019-016
Abstract

Materials collected by Randal L. Hall in the course of writing Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (Kentucky University Press, 2012). Includes several issues of Zinc magazine; a photographic section of the Galax Gazette from 1937; a combined portrait photograph of the employees of Carroll Hosiery Mills; and a National Carbide Company miners lamp dust can lid.

Dates: 1937 - 1980

Carroll County, Virginia, Petition,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-100
Abstract

The collection consists of a petition from former members of the 24th and 29th Virginia Infantries, seeking assistance for the pardon and release of POWs from Carroll County, Virginia.

Dates: 1865

Carroll County, Virginia, Showing Primary and Secondary Highways,

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0732
Abstract

Carroll County, Virginia, Showing Primary and Secondary Highways. Virginia Department of Highways, 1963. 24 x 19 in. [FOLDER C-2]

Dates: 1963 - 1963

Carte de la Baie de Chesapeake [Warwick County] (reproduction)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0132
Abstract Full title reads, "Carte de la baie de Chesapeake et de la Partie navigable des Rivieres, James, York, Patowmack, Patuxen, Patapsco, North-East, Choptank et Pokomack. Redigée pour le service des vaisseaux du roi, au Dépôt Général des Cartes, Plans et Journeaux de la Marine, Par Ordre de M. de Sartine, Conseiller d'Etat, Ministre et Secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine, d'après des Plans Anglois, et particulierement ceux d'Antoine Smith, Pilote de Ste. Marie." Document contains large...
Dates: 1778