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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 1954 Collections and/or Records:

Blue Ridge Discovery Center Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-004
Abstract

Educational/informational materials published by the Blue Ridge Discovery Center.

Dates: 2011

Blue Ridge Parkway Folklore Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1986-009
Abstract

The collection includes records from an oral history project conducted by the American Folklife Center in cooperation with the National Park Service created between 1978 and 1979.

Dates: 1978 - 1979

Blue Ridge Springs Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-089
Abstract The Blue Ridge Springs Correspondence contains two letters, a small note, and seven postcards. The seven postcards dated 1910-1942 are addressed to Elizabeth "Bettie" Gross (1875-1964) of Bedford County and her husband William "Bill" Gross (1865-1946), a merchant from Bedford County. The letters and the note are from Lucy M. Thomas (1865-1933), of Bedford County, Virginia, to Joseph Ferries (1865-1955), a farmer in Blue Ridge Springs, Botetourt County, Virginia. Thomas and Ferries later...
Dates: Majority of material found within 1895 - 1942

Cynthia Addington Boatwright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-070
Scope and Content

The materials in this collection include correspondence, news clippings, photographs, programs, and files created and collected by Boatwright in her lifetime. The majority of the materials focus on Boatwright's tenure as President of the Virginia Federation of Women's Clubs from 1941 to 1944.

Dates: 1930s-1990, undated

Bobbitt Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2023-096
Abstract

The Bobbitt Family Papers, 1825-1904, 1951, contains financial documents and letters created by the Bobbitt Family of Virginia, including numerous letters and documents for Greenberry G. Mc. Bobbitt in the 1800s.

Dates: 1825-1904, 1951

Dorothy H. Bodell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-042
Abstract

The collection consists primarily of newspaper clippings, correspondence, research notes, photocopies of historical documents, and files Bodell compiled while writing her book.

Dates: 1850 - 1996

D. W. Bolen Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2024-084
Abstract This collection contains correspondence between David Winton Bolen (1850-1932), a lawyer in Fancy Gap, Virginia, and R. E. Withers, Examiner of Records 21st Circuit. A letter dated April 12, 1904 requests all documentation from Bolen as of February 1st regarding a lawsuit he served as commissioner for. Notation from Bolen says "Nothing in my hands Feb 1st." An envelope is also enclosed to Withers from Bolen. D. W. Bolen is noted as the attorney for Floyd Allen in the Carroll County...
Dates: 1904

Betty Belle Boone Diary

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-051
Abstract

The collection contains the diary of Betty Belle Boone, a young, unmarried woman of Boones Mill, Virginia, from January 1893 to September 1894, detailing household chores and social activities.

Dates: 1893 - 1894

Squire Bosworth Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2010-060
Abstract

The collection contains the papers of Squire Bosworth, a physician and county court clerk of Randolph County, Virginia (later West Virginia), including correspondence, legal papers, and financial documents.

Dates: 1848 - 1892

Rick Boucher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2021-048
Abstract The Rick Boucher Papers, 1968-2017, document his career in the Virginia State Senate, 1975-1982, and in the United States Congress as the Representative of Virginia's 9th District, 1983-2011. The collection consists of press releases, Boucher's writings, mailers he distributed, information about his campaigns and elections, scripts of speeches he gave, news clippings about him and issues he worked on, correspondence, information about grants that he worked on, and audiovisual materials...
Dates: 1968 - 2017; Majority of material found within ( 1975-2011)