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Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History Collection,, 1904/2006 4.9 Cubic Feet 5 boxes

The Newport and Clover Hollow, Giles County History collection contains oral history interviews, transcripts, notes, newspaper clippings, historic district survey forms, a video tape, and a geological survey map related to the creation of the Greater Newport Rural Historic District. The collection dates from 1973 to 2009, although it does include a typed copy of a 1904 Giles County will.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Norfolk & Western Railway and Associated Companies Collection, 1851/1978 3.7 Cubic Feet 6 boxes, 1 oversize folder

Norfolk and Western Railroad Company (1881-1896)
The Norfolk and Western Railway and Associated Companies contains a collection of records relating to the Norfolk & Western Railway and several of its predecessor and subsidiary lines and other associated enterprises, including the Atlantic & Danville Railway; Bluefield Inn; Deepwater Railway; Hotel Roanoke; New Jersey, Indiana & Illinois Railroad; New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad; Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad; Norfolk and Western Railroad; Roanoke Machine Works; Shenandoah Valley Railroad; Tidewater Railway; and the Winston-Salem Southbound Railway. Included are such materials as financial and legal documents, reports, maps, construction files, printed materials, and Norfolk & Western standard plans.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Norfolk & Western Railway Company Construction Site Photographs, 1967/1981 0.6 Cubic Feet 2 boxes

Norfolk and Western Railway Company (1896-1982)
The Norfolk & Western Railway Company Construction Site Photographs includes approximately 360 photographs (and in some cases, photocopies of photographs) of railroad construction in Southwest Virginia. The majority of images date from 1967-1981.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Orrin Rankin Magill Papers, 1945/1972, bulk 1960/1972 2.5 Cubic Feet 5 boxes

Magill, Orrin R. (Orrin Rankin), 1887-1976
The collection contains the papers--including correspondence, memoranda, subject files, and printed materials--of Orrin Rankin Magill, graduate of Virginia Polytechnic Institute (class of 1913), VPI professor of philosophy and religion, and active participant in civic and political affairs of Blacksburg and Montgomery County, Virginia. Materials document Magill's community activities, particularly as a member of the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors and the New River Valley Planning Commission.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Patricia Givens Johnson Papers, 1920/1986 2 Cubic Feet 4 boxes

Johnson, Patricia Givens, 1932-1996
This collection consists of papers of Patricia Givens Johnson, New River Valley local historian. It includes correspondence, subject files, printed materials and photographs. It also includes a scrapbook and a few other materials, scattered throughout the collection, which had belonged to Johnson's mother, Lula Porterfield Givens, also a local historian.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Pauline E. Burks Family Papers, 1763/1985 9 Cubic Feet 15 boxes, 4 oversize folders

Broaddus family (Amherst County, Va.)
Pauline E. Burks of Richmond, Virginia, collected genealogy materials about her husband Broaddus Vaughan Burks' family. The papers include correspondence, account books, essays, receipts, newspapers, and plats and surveys of the Broaddus, Burks, Edmonds, Taliaferro, and Vaughan families of Amherst County, Virginia. Materials focus mainly on the Vaughan and Burks families and range from 1760s land grants to 1970s family correspondence.
  1. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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