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 Proposed Annexation of Virginia Heights, Raleigh Court, Wasena, Ghent and Norwich, Roanoke County, Va.
Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0194
Abstract
Map is in blueprint, focusing on the city plan.
Dates:
1919
Map Showing Right of Way in Land of S. E. Hall, Wife of Hiram Hall, on Knox Creek in Buchanan Co., Virginia
Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0101
Abstract
Map from the office of chief engineer (Columbus, Ohio), G. A. Reilly.
Dates:
April 17, 1920
Map Showing the Early County Boundaries in the Territory West of the Blue Ridge and the Present County Lines in the Mountain Empire (2 copies)
Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0172
Abstract
Map shows historical and present (in 1974) county lines west of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Dates:
1974
Map Showing the Position of Iron Ore Openings and Outcrops in Potts Valley, Virginia, and Their Location in Relation to the Drainage System of the Valley
Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0215
Abstract
Blueprint map shows surveys od iron ore openings in Alleghany County, Virginia.
Dates:
nd
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
Dates:
n.d.
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
Dates:
1861-01-19