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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:

Flood Insurance Rate Map, Montgomery County, Virginia (Unincorporated Areas),

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0083
Abstract

This collection is a combination of six items, including five distinct zone maps, and a cover piece which includes a smaller map showing zone boundaries. The maps are part of the National Flood Insurance Program. This collection contains pages 25, 50, 75, 100, and 125. A note indicates that an index exists that can identify pages not printed.

Dates: 1978 - 1978

Floyd and Wythe County Lutheran Churches Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2009-077
Abstract

This collection contains two photographs (1940), a newspaper article (1946), and an index card with notes from the article (n.d.) relating to the Zion Lutheran Church near Crockett, Virginia. The collection also contains a photograph (1923) and a mailer (1916) from the Zion Lutheran Church in Floyd, Virginia.

Dates: 1916 - 1946

Floyd County Land Auction Broadside,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2015-063
Abstract

The collection includes a broadside advertising a land auction in Floyd County, Virginia, to be held on August 5, 1859.

Dates: 1859 - 1859

Floyd Courthouse Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2005-008
Abstract

This collection consists of the records of Floyd Courthouse (Floyd, Virginia) chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, including minutes, yearbooks, and yearly reports.

Dates: 1935 - 2004

John Buchanan Floyd Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1989-015
Abstract

Letter from Confederate Brigadier General John Buchanan Floyd (1806-1863), written at Camp Jackson (Wytheville, Virginia) to Confederate Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker, soliciting an officer's commission for former West Point cadet B. A. Terrett.

Dates: 1861

M. L. Foley Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2012-031
Abstract

The collection includes receipts and more than 100 pieces of incoming and outgoing correspondence relating to M. L. Foley's business selling birds out of Salem, Virginia.

Dates: 1958-1964, undated

Lewis M. Foster Letter,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2014-007
Abstract

The collection includes a single letter from Lewis M. Foster to his mother, written near Petersburg, Virginia, December 1864.

Dates: 1864 - 1864

Samuel D. Foster Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1990-001
Abstract

Letter from Samuel D. Foster, a Union soldier during the American Civil War, written from Louisville, Kentucky on August 17, 1864, to the Wm. Johnston family, describing conditions at the Confederate prisoner-of-war camp in Danville, Virginia, from which Foster had been released.

Dates: 1864

William Edward Foster Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2016-006
Abstract The William Edward Foster Family Papers includes correspondence to and from various members of the Foster family, especially William E. Foster and wife, Cora, as well as several members of the Wiatt family (William E. Foster's mother's maiden name) from about 1800-1920 (the bulk of the materials are from 1850-1884). The collection also contains a group of family papers and genealogy materials, mostly undated.Please note: The majority of this collection relates to William...
Dates: 1820-1931, n.d.

Henry M. Fowlkes Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1980-004
Abstract

The collection Henry M. Fowlkes Letters includes two letters written to his family during the American Civil War.

Dates: 1863 - 1865