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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 1964 Collections and/or Records:

Independent Order of St. Luke Records

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-121
Abstract

The bulk of the materials in the Independent Order of St. Luke Records, a social-welfare organization for African Americans, consist of handbooks, correspondence, receipts, programs, membership records, annual reports, and assessment reports of the Order, collected primarily from members in Blacksburg, Virginia. Also includes the minutes (1920-1938) of the Blacksburg chapters of the Busy Bee and Maggie L. Walker (Secretary of the Independent Order of St. Luke) Circles.

Dates: 1877 - 1970

Index to Topographic Maps and Geologic Folios, Virginia

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0054
Abstract

Map is part of a brochure selling more-detailed maps; text that describes the extent of these available reports is on the reverse of the map itself.

Dates: 1918

Indian Valley, Virginia Quadrangle,

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0744
Abstract

Indian Valley, Virginia Quadrangle. U. S. Geological Survey, 1968. 22 x 27 in. [FOLDER C-2]

Dates: 1968 - 1968

Industrial Education Association for Southern Mountaineers Collection,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-059
Abstract

The collection includes two pieces of correspondence by Caroline T. Burkham (President) and two pamphlets produced by the Industrial Education Association of Southern Mountaineers.

Dates: 1930, 1936, n.d.

Ingles Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2002-021
Abstract The Ingles Family Collection includes the Ferry Hill Ledger (1797-1804) and 3 of 6 volumes of Ingles Family Bible (1823); first available documentation of Mary Draper Ingles (kidnapped at infamous Draper Meadows Massacre and later escaped from Shawnee Indian captivity) and William Ingles, operator of Ingles Ferry, Ingles Ferry Hill Tavern, and blacksmith shop. Documentation of the family's extraordinary history, its ferry, and related enterprises provides scholars with unparalleled material...
Dates: 1797 - 1823

John Ingles Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1993-008
Abstract

Three partial letters (copies only) written by John Ingles, a 19th-century resident of Virginia's New River Valley.

Dates: n.d.

Interrogatories on Loyalty, n.d. (Ms2010-060)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010_060_BosworthSquires_LoyaltyInterrogatories_nd

Interrogatories on Merits of Claim, n.d. (Ms2010-060)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms2010_060_BosworthSquires_ClaimInterrogatories_nd

Invitation, Inauguration Ball, Miss Virginia T. Preston, March 5, 1849 (Ms1992-003)

 Digital Record
Identifier: Ms1992_003_PrestonRobertT_B1F1_InauguralInvit_1849_0305

Irish Creek Property of the Misses Davidson [Rockbridge County]

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0127
Abstract

Map is in blueprint format, with hand-written identification of the property described by the map's title. Property is in Rockbridge County, Virginia. The reverse of the map contains a hand-written note concerning the identification of the map.

Dates: 1891