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Wythe County Historical ReviewSubject GuideLast Updated 11/9/2020Agriculture and Natural ResourcesAnchor and Hope Plantation (1)Grain Mills and Iron Furnaces (10)Fort Chiswell Mill on Wilderness Road (19)Cedar Branch (23)1850 Wythe County Census of Agriculture (26) Brownings Mill (27)The Dixie Fruit Farm (40)Cabbage (55)“Cattle Bob” Crockett Drives Herd to California (71)I’m from Cabbage (72)African-American HistoryCareers of Two Ex-Slaves (7)Negroes Living on Main Street in 1880 (43)Negro Families and Churches in the Cove (48)The Old Wytheville Training School for African-Americans (59)Negro Riot at the Max Meadows “Annie Lee” Furnace (67)Busing Black Children Before Integration (73)Discovering a Reality: Wytheville’s African American Training School (86)Architecture and BuildingsRock House (1)The Fort Chiswell Mansion (7)Simmerman-Saftley Tavern (19)The Flohr House (38)Cullop Stone House (43)Seven Log Houses on East Main Street (54)Wytheville’s Architectural History (64)From the Curator’s Desk: Moldings (67)Steps Leading to the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace (74)The History and Restoration of the Foster Falls Hotel (75)Houses from Books (84)CemeteriesCrockett Cemetery (14)Cove Presbyterian Church Cemetery (15)Sanders Cemetery (21)Calfee Cemetery (23)Allison Cemetery (23)Viars Cemetery (23)Dalton Cemetery (23)Stilwell Cemetery (23)Stephens Cemetery (23)James McGavock Cemetery (24)Hugh McGavock Cemetery (26)Draper Valley Pentecostal Holiness Church Cemetery (27)Whitetop Cemetery (29)Earhart Family Cemetery (29)Jackson Memorial Cemetery (29)Gregory Family Cemetery (29)John Jackson Family Cemetery (29)St. John’s Lutheran Church Cemetery (30-32)Bethany Methodist Church Cemetery (33-35)Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery (36)Davis Cemetery (41)Civil WarWythe County Civil War Letters (2)The Settlements During the War (2)Letters of a VMI Cadet, 1857-1858 (4) (81) (85)General William Terry (5)Battle of Wytheville, Toland’s Raid (10-12, 27, 59)George K. Painter (19-20)Confederate Surgeons of Wythe County (32-34, 36)Peter Jackson Catron at Petersburg (39)Letter of a Wythe County Confederate Soldier (42)Letter of James Ewell Brown Stuart Written from Wytheville (43)Charles Gay Crockett, VMI Cadet (45)Confederate Pensioners of Wythe County (45)A Small Boy’s Recollections of the Civil War (48-50)New Permanent Exhibit (48)Civil War Letters of Thomas W. Fisher (55)The Crockett Family’s Lost Generation (57)The Civil War Journal and Letters of Reuben F. Repass (58)Historical Society Library to Showcase Letter Written by Mrs. Robert E. Lee (67)J.E.B. Stuart: Famous Son of Southwest Virginia (69)Civil War Letter from Wytheville Native to General Sherman (70)The Wythe Grays: Harpers Ferry and Beyond (72)The “Mythful” Wytheville Rifle (73)A School Girl’s Life Based on the Journal of Bettie Ann Graham (82)The Impacts of the Civil War in Wythe County (83)CommunitiesFort Chiswell (1, 15)Mount Airy (1)Wytheville (8/9, 30-31, 36, 56)Newbern (13)Crockett’s Cove (14, 55)Towns of By-Gone Days (23)Ivanhoe (40)Black Lick (52)Foster Falls (62)Loretto (63)How Were Wythe County Places Named? (66)Miller’s Creek (74)Economy and BusinessWilliam W. Rich, 1831-1904 (14)Squire David Graham (16)Licenses for Merchants of Wythe County (41)Jacob Fisher, 1780-1858 (44)Hatters of Evansham (51) Women’s Wages in the 1840s (54)Smith Family Sawmills in Wythe County (57)Almerine Marshall, Tavern-Keeper Merchant of Evansham (59)1857 Reprint: Southwestern Bank of Virginia (64)Crockett Depot, 1901: Through the Pages of an Old Store Ledger (65)Wythe County’s Working Women: A Look at the Census Records Between 1850 and 1900 (70)Loyd William Crigger: Craftsman with a Rock Foundation (71)EducationThe Institute (1)The Shortts of Plummer College (5)Wythe Academy (29)Wytheville Male Academy (32)Villa Maria Academy (53)The Old Wytheville Training School for African-Americans (59)Wythe County Schools 1916 (61)Trinity Hall Female College (62)Scott Memorial High School’s 1962 State Basketball Championship (76)Entertainment and LeisureInvitations to Early Parties in Wytheville (28)Lettie, A Doll Made in Wytheville (42)Celebrating 4th of July in Wytheville, 1857 (56)Scott Memorial High School’s 1962 State Basketball Championship (76)FireFire Protection in Early Wytheville (3)The Great Town Fire (20)Genealogy and Family HistoryTrace Your Family History: Bible Records (4)Trace Your Family History: Courthouse Records (4)Trace Your Family History: Church Records (4)Trace Your Family History: Cemetery Records (4)Home Care of Family Papers (5)The Tate Family of Wythe County (8/9)General Alexander Smyth (10)German Families of Cripple Creek (12)The Early Southwest Virginia Families (21)Steadfast Americas: The Withers Family (21)What’s in a Name (22)Crigger Family of Southwest Virginia (25)Esther’s Father, Sayers Family (27)Heirs to the Legacy (28)Graham Family Bible Records (30)Haller Family Bible Records (32)The Lockett Family of Wythe County (33)The Milgrim Family of Southwest Virginia (34-35)The Elijah Smith Family (35)Fingerprints in Wythe County History (35)The Porter Family in Crockett, Virginia (38)The Rapper Family (41)Family Newsletters (48)The Kegley Library (50)Evidences to Obtain Marriage Licenses (54)Fraktur: Birth and Baptismal Records of the Early Germans (56)The Crockett Family’s Lost Generation (57)The Shaffer Family (59)Bertie Neff and the Family Heirloom (60)Are These Documents Forged? (62)The Bolling Family of Wytheville (63)Surname Spelling Variants: Antecedents for Trouble (64)The Byrnes Family (66)Montgomery Family (75)McGavock Family (76)Cloyd Family (77)Kent Family (78)Harrison Johnson (The Son of Peggy) (79)The Biography of Lawrence Elmer (Smiley) Davidson (79)Kent Family (80)A Tragedy of Errors: Resolving the Controversy Over the Parentage of Elizabeth Oury Rader (86)GovernmentUnder the Fish (4) (81)Wythe County’s First Courthouse (8/9)Governor E. Lee Trinkle (12)Captain William Herbert (13)Wythe County Courthouse (13)Members of the Virginia House of Delegates (17)Bye Laws of Town of Evansham (22)Letter from the Wythe County Courthouse (24)Members of Board of Trustees/Town Council of the Town of Wytheville, 1839-1983 (31)Corn Rights (32)The Wythe County Seal (34)The Act to Incorporate Wytheville, 1839 (39)Wytheville’s Three Fulton Judges (47)Crimes and Criminals (53)Wythe County’s Commissioner of Accounts (54-55)Wythe County Poorhouse Farm (60)Courthouses of Wythe County (62)Electors for the National Election of 1804 (62)Jails of Wythe County (63)A 1928 Election Gathering at the Millwald Theatre (66)The Wythe County Temperance Society of 1848 (68)Statement of County Expenses for 1892 (69)Only Local Case to Reach U.S. Supreme Court (71)Health, Medicine, and DiseaseSmallpox Scare in Wythe County, 1851 (6) (81)Public Health in Wythe County (7)Dr. John Haller (11)Physicians of the Ribble Family (25)Wythe County Mortality Schedules (25, 37)History of Wythe County Hospital (26)Confederate Surgeons of Wythe County (32-34, 36)The Rock House Herb Garden (40)Physicians of Max Meadows, Virginia (40)The Polio Town, Wytheville, Virginia, 1950 (61)Dr. Rudolf Benda: Physician, Scholar, and Humanitarian (68)The History of Infantile Paralysis in Wythe County (83)Land, Titles, and PlotsLead Mines (14-17)Carroll County (18)W. H. Spiller Lot (20-25)Wythe County Deed Abstractions: Creager and Allied Families (26)Lots on Main Street of Evansham (29)Dr. John Haller’s Real Estate (51)Land Grants Issued in 1854 (55)MetallurgyNoble, or Irondale Furnace (1)Shot Tower (1)McWane Foundry (1, 47)Raven Cliff Furnace (3) (81)Grain Mills and Iron Furnaces (10)The Lead Mines (14)David Pierce of Poplar Camp (17)The Virginia Iron, Coal, and Coke Company (42)The Iron Age of Wythe County (53)A Look at the New Jersey Zinc Company (65-66)Memories of the National Carbide Plant (65)Negro Riot at the Max Meadows “Annie Lee” Furnace (67)Jackson Ferry Shot Tower (83)MigrationThe First Settlers (1)Travel Diary of Immigrants from Baltimore (6)Legacy from our German Ancestors (29)Charles Hartman and His French Colony in Wytheville (39)The Zugel (Seagle) Family in Germany and America (49, 52)Ocean Crossings and Family Facts (55)New Citizens (60)An 1885 Adventure from Wytheville, Virginia to Hong Kong (68)“Cattle Bob” Crockett Drives Herd to California (71)MiscellaneousThe Duels of Alexander Smyth (7)Past Distinguished Citizens (10)Aunt Emeline (11)Tribute to Kathleen Campbell (13)Diary of Lucy S. Ruggles (15-19)Orville Robinson Repass (18-19)Samuel Crockett, Will (20)James McGavock Marks off an Empire (24)B. B. Kegley: Farmer, Historian, Teacher (28)A Sentinel of the Old Southwest (30)John Clark Has Wythe Roots (35)Historical Glance at the DAR Chapters (38)Road Talk Recalls Famous Old Road (41)Recollections (42-43)Tribute to Dr. W. R. Chitwood (44)The Memoirs of John Benton Ewald (44-45)The Fate of Two Brothers (46)Gordon Repass, 1819-1865 (49)Family Memories (51-52)Tribute to Reed “Bo” Taylor, 1927-1997 (52)Biographical Sketch of Harlan E. Smith (55)Betsy Wall’s Rock (56)Militia Roster for 1855 (57)The Thomas J. Boyd Fountain (58)Edward Crow (59)Treasures of the Boyd Museum (60)Frank Johnston – His Tragic Story (61)WCHS: Making History for Over Three Decades (62)Reminiscences: Loafer Wisdom (63)Maintenance Agreements (64)An Account: The Day English Visitors Came to Wytheville (65)Hontas Sessoms Austin: A Phenomenal Woman (67)Who Was Thomas J. Boyd? (69)A Slice of History Through the Eyes of D. L. Barnett Jr. (69) Wytheville Linguist (70)James Hays Piper: Modest Man of Accomplishment (71)Caswell R. Six (72)The Treasure Trove at the Heritage Center (72)Roots of Love (73)Mrs. Agnes Davis (73)Living on Swecker Land (75)Iva Manley’s Oral History Story (75)A Visit with Miss Lucy S. Ruggles (76)The Devils in the Workhouses: Edith Bolling Wilson, Woman Suffrage, and Equity (77)Remembering George Lee Armbrister of Max Meadows (77)My Town Captured in the Museum Gift Shop (77)Rev. James A. Brown, 1815-1900 Pioneer, Pastor, Educator, Farmer (78)A Tribute to Rachel Buchanan Lindsey (78)Why Rural Retreat Native Deacon Phillippe Belongs in the Hall of Fame (78)Edith Bolling Wilson (82)Man of Prominence: The Story of Jesse Evans (82)Jacob Shaffer: A Master Gunsmith in the Virginia Backcountry (82)Jacob Harrison Shaffer “A Soldier’s Soldier” (82)German Craftsmen of Wythe County (84)A Life of Service: Beulah Ann Buchanan (83)The Public House: “Some” Taverns of Wythe County, VA. (83)Houses from Books (84) Historical Societies 101 (85)Play While Learning: Comparing Eighteenth-Century Games and Lessons with the Past (86)MusicFrancis Hopkinson: America’s First Composer (11)St. Paul Methodist Church Orchestra (58)ReligionOld St. John’s (1)Wytheville Presbyterian Church (8/9)Father Ryan in Wytheville (13)Cove Brick Church (15)St. John’s Homecoming Sunday (23)The Rev. John Stanger (26)Bicentennial of American Methodism (27)Black Lick Presbyterian Church (28)Rev. Alexander Philippi (29)History of Asbury Campground (31)Presbyterian Children’s Home (33)Fingerprints in Wythe County History (35)The Flohr House (38)The Diary of the Reverend Frederick Deane Goodwin (38-39, 41-43)Has Professor Selig Made the Connection (45)Professor Selig Visits Wytheville (46)Negro Families and Churches in the Cove (48)St. Mary’s Catholic Church (50)Jacob Smith: Methodist Martyr of the Reconstruction Era (61)John A. Morehead: World Lutheran Leader (68)St. John’s Episcopal Church (73)Revolutionary WarFincastle Resolutions (6) (81)List of Revolutionary War Soldiers (18)Revolutionary War Pension Applications (56)A Hessian Alien (57)Corporal Laurence Stephens (86)Science and TechnologyStreetlamps Come to Wytheville (20)Wytheville Radio (34)A Brief History of the Norfolk and Western Railway (46, 51)Frances Gibboney, Photographer, 1868-1941 (56)Hay Carrier Invention (58)SpringsWyrick Springs (3) (81)Grayson Sulphur Springs (12)World War IIWorld War II experiences (54)My Visit to the World War II Memorial (73) ................
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