Papers pertaining to Wythe County, 2001.

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Papers pertaining to Wythe County, 2001.

The collections contains numbers 59 and 60 of the Wythe County Historical Review (January and July 2001); number 38, series II of the Bulletin of the Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia (2001), and four clippings of articles on Wythe County. Topics of interest include the Wythe County Poorhouse Farm, the Wytheville Training School for African Americans, Toland's raid (Civil War Battle of Wytheville), the free black community in Washington County, and the wreck of Old 97.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Wytheville Training School for African-Americans.

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Southern Railway (U.S.)

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Organized in 1894 from the bankrupt Richmond and Danville Railroad Company and several other railroad companies; headquartered in Washington, D.C. From the description of Records, 1891-1972. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28410983 Formed in 1894; combined with Norfolk and Western Railway to become Norfolk Southern Corporation in 1982. From the description of Records, 1899-1950. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28414535 ...