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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:

William Vinson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-048
Abstract

The collection contains a letter from Virginia House of Delegates member William Vinson (1819=1883) to his family at home in Wayne County, (West) Virginia, discussing his attempts in the general assembly to secure roads and mail routes, his children's education, health and weather conditions in Richmond, and winning local lotteries.

Dates: 1854

Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0042
Abstract

Map of Virginia, with parts of Maryland, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina (independent and not part of 'Carolina'), which comes from George Washington Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World.

Dates: 1855

Virginia Academy of Science Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1981-096
Abstract The Virginia Academy of Science (VAS) Records includes VAS publications dating from 1939-2004 and also includes manuscript and published versions of various Academy histories. The Academy Archives also includes correspondence, report, and minutes of section and of ad hoc and standing committees, annual financial statements, photographs and clippings, by-laws, and constitutions, records of special projects such as the visiting scientists program (supported by National Science Foundation...
Dates: 1920 - 2005

Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Farm Family Study (Grayson County, Virginia)

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1940-023
Abstract

The collection contains data from a cooperative study of Grayson County, Virginia, conducted by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Bureau of Home Economics. The study includes raw and tabulated data on family members, education, health, income and expenditures, employment, housing, food, clothing, and household furnishings and supplies.

Dates: 1931

Records of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station

 Record Group
Identifier: RG-25-01
Abstract The Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station (VAES) was established in 1886 by an act of the Virginia General Assembly and funded by the federal Hatch Act of 1887 for the purpose of providing practical and useful information on agricultural and scientific subjects. The collection includes 114 surveys books for ten counties in Virginia from 1931 through 1940, as well as files dated 1903-1947 of weather reports, annual reports of investigations of the field laboratories, and a large amount of...
Dates: 1903 - 1947

Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited This Present Year 1670 (reproduction)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0009
Abstract

This 1970 reproduction consists of the geographic regions of Virginia and Maryland as charted in 1670, and it contains illustrations of the cartographer, native peoples, and a coat of arms.

Dates: 1673

Virginia and Maryland as it is Planted and Inhabited This Present Year 1670 (reproduction)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0010
Abstract

This 1967 reproduction consists of the geographic regions of Virginia and Maryland as charted in 1670, and it contains illustrations of the cartographer, native peoples, and a coat of arms.

Dates: 1673

Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2008-077
Abstract

The collection contains letters to William S. Archer discussing his election as delegate to the July 1849 convention of the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad Company. Correspondence also discusses the plan to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via railroads.

Dates: 1849

Virginia Anthracite Coal Company Brush Mountain Property, Montgomery County, Va.

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0289
Abstract

Blueprint map shows property between Brush Mountain and Tom's Creek in Montgomery County, Virginia.

Dates: nd

Virginia Association for Biological Farming Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2016-009
Abstract

This collection contains records created and collected by the Virginia Association for Biological Farming (VABF) between the early 1990s and the mid-2010s.

Dates: 1990s-2014