Records, 1958-1983.

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Records, 1958-1983.

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Founded in 1889, the APVA has twenty branches which own and maintain historic properties. The Montgomery County branch maintains the Smithfield Plantation in Blacksburg. Records largely document the recent history of Smithfield, ancestral home of the Preston family, especially its restoration beginning in 1965. Includes correspondence of George Green Shackelford, reports, clippings, programs, photographs, and architectural drawings.

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Smithfield Plantation House (Blacksburg, Va.)

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Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Montgomery County Branch

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Founded in 1889, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities (APVA) has twenty branches which own and maintain historic properties. In November 1958 the APVA authorized the organization of the Montgomery County branch for the specific purpose of acquiring and restoring Smithfield Plantation, the historic home near Blacksburg in Montgomery County, Virginia, built by William Preston in 1773. In 1959 Mrs. Janie Preston Brockenbrough Lamb, a descendant of Preston, donat...

Preston family.

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Shackelford, George Green

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Virginia Polytechnic Institute history professor. From the description of Papers of George Green Shackelford [manuscript], 1955-1985. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647806773 From the description of Papers, 1955-1985. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 32958877 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University history professor. From the description of Papers of George Green Shackelford and the Shackelford family [manuscript],...