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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 1964 Collections and/or Records:

Map Showing Location of Copper Ridge Copper Mines, Greene Co., Va.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0116
Abstract

Document is a four-page piece of writing with six (6) illustrating maps. The map shows the location and productivity of the Copper Ridge copper mines of Greene County, Virginia.

Dates: 1877

Map Showing the Position of the Morris Estates, Western Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0029
Abstract Map shows railroads between various locations in the southern United States, in the areas encompassed by the Mississippi River and Atlantic, from Charleston (South Carolina) to Chicago. The Morris Estates, highlighted in color on this map. No creator name appears on the map, though T. W. Tarbet may be a publisher. Additionally, the titular "Morris" has no identification apart from the geographic situatedness near Oceana, West Virginia. Map contains some specific numbers about the estates,...
Dates: 1882

Marching Orders, From Col. Preston, undated (Ms1992-003)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F13_LongstreetPrestonIII

Marion, Virginia, Quarry Photograph

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-082
Abstract

This photograph depicts several men working at a quarry–possibly near Marion or Wytheville, Virginia.

Dates: [c.1900-1920]

Bishop William H. Marmion Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-013
Abstract Bishop William H. Marmion, born 1907, was Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia from 1954 to 1979. The papers document the forty-seven year ecclesiastical career of William H. Marmion. Materials include booklets, church bulletins, correspondence to and from Marmion, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and reports generated by the Bishop in his service to the Episcopal Church. Topics of interest to the researcher cover Marmion's interest in the civil rights...
Dates: 1932 - 1981

Marriage Certificate, Mary M. Chenoweth and Hicman Triplett, Randolph County Va., January 19, 1861 (Ms2010-060)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010_060_BosworthSquires_MarriageCertificate_1861_0119