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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:

Solitude Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-138
Abstract

Love letter written by L'incounnue ("The Unknown") at Solitude (the Preston home in Blacksburg, Virginia) in 1860, and addressed to "Miss Martha."

Dates: 1860

Solitude Photographs and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-024
Abstract

This collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, and several other papers containing information about Solitude, the oldest building on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Dates: ca. 1960s-1980s

Henry Clay Sommerville Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1991-045
Abstract

Letters written to Henry Clay Sommerville, a surgeon serving in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, written by friends and relatives in Liberty (now Bedford), Virginia, including William Sommerville, M. R. Scruggs, H. Feild, and J. R. Tinsley, focusing largely on personal and local news.

Dates: 1862 - 1864

South West Virginia Resources

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0175
Abstract

Map shows the distribution of natural resources throughout southwestern Virginia. It is in color and contains an explanatory legend with a note indicating likely future railroads. The map additionally contains an illustration of Penington's Gap in Lee County, Virginia, and a geological cross-section of the region.

Dates: 1881

Southern Section of the United States, Including Florida (reproduction)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0026
Abstract

Map encompasses the area from the Gulf of Mexico to the Chesapeake Bay. It includes various roads and routes, as well as the Gulf Stream and the Bahama Islands.

Dates: 1816

Southside Garden Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2007-032
Abstract

Materials in the collection include newspaper clippings, minutes and yearbooks from the Blacksburg Woman's Club and organization reports, minutes, pressbooks, yearbooks, and scrapbooks from the Southside Garden Club.

Dates: 1914 - 2009

Southview School, Roanoke County, Virginia

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-061
Scope and Contents

building by Smithey and Boynton Architects and Engineers

Dates: 1939

Southwest Virginia Counties Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2000-092
Abstract

The Southwest Virginia Counties Collection includes correspondence, manuscript memoranda and recipe books, and family papers from the Godwin, Young, Trevey, Williams and other families of Botetourt, Rockbridge, and Roanoke Counties.

Dates: 1824 - 1885

Southwest Virginia Improvement Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-030
Abstract

Notes of the Southwest Virginia Improvement Company, founded in 1880 to develop the Pocahontas coalfields, from meetings held by the company's incorporators, held at New River Depot, Virginia in October and November, 1880.

Dates: 1880