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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 1972 Collections and/or Records:

John Carr Civil War Letters,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-035
Abstract

This collection contains photocopies and transcriptions of the Civil War-era letters of Private John Carr, who served with the 2nd Stuart Horse Artillery of the Confederate Army.

Dates: 1862 - 1862

Carroll and Wythe Counties Industries Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-2019-016
Abstract

Materials collected by Randal L. Hall in the course of writing Mountains on the Market: Industry, the Environment, and the South (Kentucky University Press, 2012). Includes several issues of Zinc magazine; a photographic section of the Galax Gazette from 1937; a combined portrait photograph of the employees of Carroll Hosiery Mills; and a National Carbide Company miners lamp dust can lid.

Dates: 1937 - 1980

Carroll County, Virginia, Petition,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-100
Abstract

The collection consists of a petition from former members of the 24th and 29th Virginia Infantries, seeking assistance for the pardon and release of POWs from Carroll County, Virginia.

Dates: 1865

Carroll County, Virginia, Showing Primary and Secondary Highways

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0732
Abstract

Carroll County, Virginia, Showing Primary and Secondary Highways. Virginia Department of Highways, 1963. 24 x 19 in. [FOLDER C-2]

Dates: 1963

Carte de la Baie de Chesapeake [Warwick County] (reproduction)

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0132
Abstract Full title reads, "Carte de la baie de Chesapeake et de la Partie navigable des Rivieres, James, York, Patowmack, Patuxen, Patapsco, North-East, Choptank et Pokomack. Redigée pour le service des vaisseaux du roi, au Dépôt Général des Cartes, Plans et Journeaux de la Marine, Par Ordre de M. de Sartine, Conseiller d'Etat, Ministre et Secrétaire d'Etat au Département de la Marine, d'après des Plans Anglois, et particulierement ceux d'Antoine Smith, Pilote de Ste. Marie." Document contains large...
Dates: 1778