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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 1952 Collections and/or Records:

Site of Proposed Stadium

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0341
Abstract

Map shows the topography of the site for the proposed stadium at VPI circa 1924. The stadium, Miles Stadium, was completed in 1926.

Dates: ca. 1924

Site Plan, Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library, Blacksburg Area Branch

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0236
Abstract

Map shows the plan for the Blacksburg branch of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library.

Dates: 1994

Sketch-map of the Douthat Survey, Alleghany and Bath Counties, Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0225
Abstract

"Sketch-Map" shows the ore openings in the region in Alleghany and Bath Counties, Virginia, as surveyed by Douthat.

Dates: nd

Sketch Map of the Rich Patch Iron Ore Lands and Mines, Alleghany County, Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0227
Abstract

Sketch map shows ore and underground workings in Alleghany County, Virginia.

Dates: 1811

Pedro T. Slone Memoir,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-057
Abstract

Typescript memoir by Pedro T. Slone of Franklin County, Virginia. The memoir was written in February 1943 and chronicles the way of life in Franklin County, Virginia, during the late 19th and early 20th century.

Dates: 1943

Slusser Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1960-001
Abstract

This collection contains loose ledger sheets for the household expenditures of Dr. John B. Slusser, an advertisement from the Pressed Steel Car Company, a reciept from the Virginia Tech dining hall, a United States patent application for a nut-lock invented by Murray C. and William J. Slusser, and pages from a personal account book.

Dates: 1852 - 1912

J.H. Slusser & Son Store Ledger

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-135
Abstract "Store Book, no. 5, 1912" includes account listings for the J.H. Slusser & Son Coal Company store from 1902 through 1909. John H. Slusser was born in Blacksburg, Virginia on August 28, 1840. Slusser purchased a coal mine on Coal Bank Hollow Road in Blacksburg. The coal company was taken over by John Slusser's son, Murry, after his death in 1909. The M.C. Slusser Coal Company ran the mine until 1950 and served the surrounding areas, include coal supplies for the nearby Virginia...
Dates: 1902 - 1909

"Smart" Road Citizen's Advisory Committee

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1997-025
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of reports, copies of electronic mail correspondence, brochures, meetings, minutes, and newspaper clippings about the "Smart" Road proposal. This information was collected by Dorothy Bodell of Blacksburg, Virginia, as she served on the citizen's advisory committee from January 1995 to July 1997.

Dates: 1993 - 1997