Local/Regional History and Appalachian South
Found in 1972 Collections and/or Records:
Sketch-map to Accompany Report on D. S. Cook's North Mountain Property, Botetourt and Rockbridge Counties, Virginia
Sketch-Map shows geological cross-section and ore strikes.
Pedro T. Slone Memoir,
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.
Slusser Family Papers
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.
J.H. Slusser & Son Store Ledger
"Smart" Road Citizen's Advisory Committee
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.
Augustus Smith Family Collection
The Augustus Smith Family Collection consists of two letters--one (1864) from Smith in Greenville, Tennessee, to his mother, and another (1866) to General Alex E. Smith, his father, in Rural Mount, Virginia, from an unknown person, as well as newspaper clippings and genealogy materials concerning the American Civil War and other topics.
Smith Family Letters
The collection contains forty-nine Civil War-era letters written by four brothers of Carroll County, Virginia: James R., Stephen Mitchell, William Alexander, and Barton Pierce Smith. All four served in Confederate units from Virginia. The collection also includes a family history and notes by Frederick R. Smith.
Smith Family Letters, 1861-1865, 1912-1996 (Ms1996-018)
Sue Smith Letters
The Sue Smith Letters are two letters by Smith in Purcellville, Virginia, to Anna Panevast in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, dated May 2, 1885 and December 2, 1886. Smith notes that she misses Panevast and describes personal and familial life updates, such as traveling and moving plans, an engagement rumour, and illnesses.
Smithey & Boynton, Architects & Engineers Records
The collection contains project files and drawings related to more than 1,500 residences, churches, businesses, schools, and community buildings, predominantly in the Roanoke and Southwest Virginia area, designed by Smithey & Boynton, mostly between 1935 and 1957.