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Papers pertaining to Wythe County [manuscript], 2001.

Title: Papers pertaining to Wythe County [manuscript], 2001.

The collections contains numbers 16, 52, 53, 61, 63, 64 and 65 of the Wythe County Historical Review (July 1979, July 1997, January 1998, January 2002, Winter Spring 2003, Summer Fall 2003, Winter 2004); numbers 35, 39, 39a, 40, series II of the Bulletin of the Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia (2003), and assorrted packets of clippings of articles on the Graham family, Wythe County. Number 16 contains an article about Squire David Graham. Topics of interest in the clippings include the Wythe County Historical Review; the Civil War Driving Trail in Wythe County; artist Elizabeth Waller Wilkins; the Presbyterian Children's Home; the Fort Chiswell Mansion; the Stephen F. Austin Memorial Park; and the 100th birthday celebration of Agnes Graham Riley Sanders.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

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Kohler, William. The lead mines in southwest Virginia, [1750-1868], n.d. [manuscript], n.d.

Title: The lead mines in southwest Virginia, [1750-1868], n.d. [manuscript], n.d.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

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Papers of the Graham family [manuscript], 1754-1906.

Title: Papers of the Graham family [manuscript], 1754-1906.

Consists of three collections: 38-106 contains primarily business correspondence; 38-107 and 38-303 contain ledgers and account books. Include business correspondence, journals, ledgers, time books, receipts, account books, and inventories of the Graham and Robinson families of Wythe County, Va., 1754-1906, relating chiefly to the mining and mercantile interests of Joseph J. Graham and David Graham in southwestern Virginia counties. Also include accounts for general merchandise, cobbler's works, wool carding, iron foundries, lead mines, and North Carolina copper mines; personal correspondence, ca. 1833-1841, chiefly of Calvin Graham, brother of David Graham, while attending medical school in Philadelphia, Pa. Topics included are Afro-American labor, mining and railroads; documents included are slave bills of sale and records of the Barren Springs Mining Company, the C.R. Mines, Calfee and Robinson, Fair Play Furnace, David Graham and Son, Graham's Forge Farmer's Club, Jackson Forge, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Graham's Forge, Samuel Quesenberry, Reed Island Iron Company, Paramont Furnace, and Peach Bottom Copper Mine. Also include supply orders issued by the Confederate States of America Army; will, 1754, of Stephen Watkins; land patent, 1755, for Amelia County; and miscellaneous printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 3100 (ca.) items and 130 v.

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Graham, David, 1800-1870. David Graham correspondence [manuscript], 1860.

Title: David Graham correspondence [manuscript], 1860.

Letter, 1860 Sept. 22, Graham's Forge, Va. to W. H. Bates, Newborn, Va., and Bates' reply 1860, Sept. 26. Graham expresses anger that Bates baptized Graham's children during the former's absence from home, and Bates defends his actions.

ArchivalResource: 2 items.

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Sanders, Edwin Hanson,. Papers of the Graham and related Tate families, 1798-1979 (bulk 1857-1865).

Title: Papers of the Graham and related Tate families, 1798-1979 (bulk 1857-1865).

Correspondence, financial and legal papers, genealogical information and an ambrotype. Collection consists chiefly of letters of brothers, Charles Beverly Tate, James Graham Tate, and William Hanson Tate to their father, Charles Campbell Tate, and siblings Nannie Montgomery Tate and John Montgomery Tate. The brothers write about school news at Emory and Henry, 1859-1861, and Virginia Military Institute, 1857-1859; teaching at Anchor and Hope Academy, Wythe County, Virginia; a trip to Richmond for the dedication of the Crawford equestrian statue of George Washington; and the Civil War in which both William and James were killed. Civil War topics mentioned include camp life, evacuation of Harper's Ferry and burning of its bridge and public buildings, court-martial and execution of deserters, 1st battle of Kernstown, short rations, Kelly's Ford, Bristoe station, Shepherdstown, retreat from Cotton Hill, other skirmishes and generals J.E.B. Stuart, John B. Floyd, Gabriel C. Wharton, Henry Heth, Humphrey Marshall, Stonewall Jackson, Ambrose P. Hill, and James Longstreet. The collection also contains family financial and legal papers; genealogical papers on the Graham and Tate families; "The Graham family" by Nannie Montgomery Tate Graham; "Letters of a V.M.I. cadet, 1857-1858," and "The Tate family of Wythe County, Virginia" by Agnes Graham Sanders Riley; and a framed ambrotype of David Graham.

ArchivalResource: 135 items.

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Graham family. Papers of the Graham family, 1754-1906.

Title: Papers of the Graham family, 1754-1906.

Consists of three collections: 38-106 contains primarily business correspondence; 38-107 and 38-303 contain ledgers and account books. Include business correspondence, journals, ledgers, time books, receipts, account books, and inventories of the Graham and Robinson families of Wythe County, Va., 1754-1906, relating chiefly to the mining and mercantile interests of Joseph J. Graham and David Graham in southwestern Virginia counties. Also include accounts for general merchandise, cobbler's works, wool carding, iron foundries, lead mines, and North Carolina copper mines; personal correspondence, ca. 1833-1841, chiefly of Calvin Graham, brother of David Graham, while attending medical school in Philadelphia, Pa. Topics included are Afro-American labor, mining and railroads; documents included are slave bills of sale and records of the Barren Springs Mining Company, the C.R. Mines, Calfee and Robinson, Fair Play Furnace, David Graham and Son, Graham's Forge Farmer's Club, Jackson Forge, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Graham's Forge, Samuel Quesenberry, Reed Island Iron Company, Paramont Furnace, and Peach Bottom Copper Mine. Also include supply orders issued by the Confederate States of America Army; will, 1754, of Stephen Watkins; land patent, 1755, for Amelia County; and miscellaneous printed matter.

ArchivalResource: 3100 (ca.) items + 130 v.

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