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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:

Land Survey, Montgomery County, Virginia,

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2011-023
Abstract

The collection consists of map of Montgomery County as it was in 1784. The acreage, divided into thirty-two tracts of one thousand acres each, is situated on the Guyandotte River, a tributary of the Ohio, in present day West Virginia.

Dates: 1784

Lane Hall, Virginia Tech

 Collection — Frame 1
Identifier: Art-096
Scope and Contents

unframed watercolor

Dates: n.d.

James H. Lane Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1996-011
Abstract The James H. Lane Research Collection is a collection of research revolving around James H. Lane. The collection includes scans of letters, newspaper clippings, and book excerpts, along with photographs, focusing on Lane's time in the Confederate Army, as well as his time as a professor at Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (now Virginia Tech) and Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University). The collection also includes two reels of microfilm, with their creation dated as...
Dates: 1865 - 1980

Jacob W. Lantz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1975-003
Abstract

This collection contains the correspondence and account books of Jacob W. Lantz, proprietor of a general store in Smythe County, Virginia, and manager of local properties owned by the Lobdell Car Wheel Company.

Dates: 1908 - 1944

Larkspur Press Collection

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: Ms-1996-028

Percy Hotspur Lash II Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2022-046
Abstract

This collection contains 45 items, mostly letters from Percy Hotspur Lash II while a student at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in the mid-1920s written to friends in Gladys and Lynchburg, Virginia. Other items include banquet programs, blank postcards, and photographs.

Dates: 1925 - 1938

Harriet Eliza Lathrop Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-1988-011
Abstract

This collection includes the photocopied typescript of the reminiscences of Harriet Eliza Lathrop, a native of New York who moved to Tazewell County, Virginia with her husband, employed there to oversee the opening of the Pocahontas Coal Field.

Dates: 1937

Laurel Fork, Virginia Quadrangle,

 Collection — Object 1
Identifier: Map-0742
Abstract

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

Dates: 1968 - 1968

Madison T. Lawson Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Ms-2017-057
Abstract

The collection contains a letter from Madison T. Lawson to his family, written in Lee County, Virginia, on March 28, 1864.

Dates: 1864