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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 1926 Collections and/or Records:

Price Family Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-047
Abstract

The Price Family Collection includes letters, photograph albums, receipts, and other ephemera. The collection is divided into three series: Correspondence, Photographs and Artifacts, and Ephemera.

Dates: 1840 - 1905

Harvey Lee Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-001
Abstract

The Harvey Lee Price Papers contain handwritten notes and genealogies of various Montgomery County families which Price used to write his four volume series Outlines of Montgomery County Families. Also included are Price's subject files on the county and Virginia and his diplomas from VPI.

Dates: 1853, 1898, 1900, 1927-1949, n.d.

Price House Landscaping Plan, Price House Existing Site Plan (3 sheets)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0237
Abstract

Existing site plan of the Price House, Blacksburg, as of June 10, 1986 (2 copies); and Price House landscaping plan, drawn April 26, 1989, by "J. R. G." (1 copy). Site plans show the species of trees to be included in the landscaping of Price House in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: 1989, 1986

James Bane Price Account Books

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-008
Abstract

The collection consists of eight account books from the James Bane Price store in Prices Fork, Montgomery County, Virginia. The books provide details of daily transactions, expenditures and costumer accounts and span the years 1871 to 1897.

Dates: 1871 - 1897

Jimmie L. Price Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1987-048
Scope and Contents His collection consists of four videotapes of interviews conducted by Price with Montgomery County residents, including an interview in 1986 with Elizabeth Kent Adams about the Kentland property; interviews conducted in 1987 with four Montgomery County residents, including Robert H. Surface, Albert Hamlin, Evans Linkous, and Arnold Linkous, about coal mines and mining in the county; and an interview with Frank Bannister of Montgomery County, whose ancestors were slaves and later servants at...
Dates: 1986 - 2003

Program, Dedication of Col William Henderson French Marker, September 16, 1961 (Ms1988-047)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1988_047_EllettFamily_DedicationProgram_WmHendersonFrenchMarker_1961_0916_

Promissory Note, Signed by S. N. Bosworth, Beverly WV., January 22, 1892 (Ms2010-060)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010_060_BosworthSquires_PromissoryNote_1892_0122

Properties of the Blacksburg Realty Corporation and Reliance Mills. Blacksburg, Va.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0277
Abstract

Map in blueprint shows properties on the corner of College Ave. and Main Street in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: June 22, 1939

Properties of the Roanoke Gas and Water Company, Roanoke, Va.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0190
Abstract

Map shows properties of the Roanoke Gas and Water Company in Roanoke, Virginia. Map contains legend identifying properties and rail lines. Hand-written note explains the meaning of dotted red lines, left unexplained by the legend.

Dates: 1891

Property Map of J. B. Fishburn Coal Land (4 copies, individually annotated and colored)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0283
Abstract

Map shows the Fishburn coal lands, with distance charts, lines of coal outcrop, and owners of the property. Collection consists of four copies of the same map, and each one has distinct annotations and colorings.

Dates: 1938