You can purchase any or all of the Historical Society Bulletins from 1965 to the current issue. Series I is no longer available for resale.
Sale Items !!!
2012 WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORY CALENDAR
Relive the history of Washington County, month-by-month, with our latest calendar. Filled with fascinating vintage photographs and historical references, the 2012 edition is an excellent gift for the history "buff" or genealogist in your family.
Item: 068 Price: SALE! now $5.00
2011 REMEMBERING VIRGINIA'S CONFEDERATES CALENDAR
This calendar is a companion to the Arcadia Series book of the same title (also on sale here).
Buy it for the pictures!
Item: 319 Price: SALE! now $2.00
CIVIL WAR ADVENTURE [GRAPHIC NOVEL]
VOLUME 1
A 144 page book by Russell County cartoonist Gary Kawapisz. The book is packed with black and white drawings by Kawapisz and stories by Chuck Dixon. The presentation makes the book particularly appropriate for the younger reader, and interesting for adults as well. Scattered throughout the pages are historical nuggets regarding the War and those who struggled during those epic times.
Item: 313 Price: SALE! now $10.99
2011 WASHINGTON COUNTY HISTORY CALENDAR
Filled with fascinating vintage photographs from our collection - BUY THIS ONE FOR THE PICTURES!
Item: 069 Price: SALE! now $1.00
REMEMBERING VIRGINIA'S CONFEDERATES
This is the companion book to the 2011 Calendar, also on sale here.
Item: 320 Price: SALE! now $15.99
CIVIL WAR ADVENTURE [GRAPHIC NOVEL]
VOLUME 2
Item: 314 SALE! now $10.99
2. New Items
WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA SELECTED DEATH RECORDS, VOL. 2
Annotated, with selected Confederate Civil War Fatalities
Researched by Jack Hockett, compilied by Donald W. Helton, 2012
Item: 208 Price: $44.95
WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA SELECTED DEATH RECORDS, VOL. 3
June 1915-April 1926
Researched by Jack Hockett, compilied by Donald W. Helton, 2012
Item: 209 Price: $44.95
WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN THE CIVIL WAR
by Michael K. Shaffer
Quality Paperback, 128 pp. with Over 35 Photos
ISBN 978-097247656-0
In his impassioned speech at the Virginia Secession Convention. Washington County's delegate, John A. Campbell, concluded his fiery rhetoric with a call to arms: "I don't know but that from this hour forward my way may be lighted by the blaze of civil war." Soon his sentiment was fully embraced by his previously undecided constituents. Though no major battles were fought on Washington County's soil, it became a key supply area for Confederate armies. Union attempts to secure the coveted region resulted in targeted attempts to destroy the area's vital resources. Join Civil War historian Michael Shaffer as he reveals Washington County's Civil War sacrifices and heroism, both on and off the battlefield.
Item: 016 Price: $19.99
THEN AND NOW: WASHINGTON COUNTY
By Joe Tennis
Boasting three forks of the Holston River and a skyline of mile-high mountains, Washington County lies at the heart of the Virginia Highlands. Today, many miles of its railroad lines have become trails, and towns like Damascus, Abingdon, Mendota, Meadowview, and Glade Spring have grown from villages among wilderness. From Clinch Mountain to Konnarock, and from Three Springs to Glade Spring, "Then and Now: Washington County, Virginia" highlights the history and beauty of this mountainous land, showing images from the late 1800s to the late 1900s, contrasted with contemporary photographs of Washington County as it appears today. It is a journey of wild waters, wild wonders, side-of-the-road stories, and yes, even a few legends.
Item: 390 Price: $21.99
TALES FROM THE MOONSHINE TRADE
by Kathy Shearer
Softcover, 6" x 9", 240 pages
Oral histories and over 100 fine old pictures
Index of names
ISBN 978-097247656-0
Clinch Mountain Press 2011
Unlike the comic strip characters Snuffy Smith and Moonshine McSwine, moonshiners worked hard to put food on the table during the Depression. Nearly every secluded hollow in Far Southwest Virginia harbored a still where men, children, and even some women labored and watched out for the law. This was a part of their heritage, going back to a time before whiskey was taxed, and distilling was a normal part of the farmstead activities. Tales From the Moonshine Trade includes a wealth of pictures and stories from all the counties of Far Southwest Virginia, many of them humorous, and some tragic.
Item: 030 Price: $15.00
3. Memberships
INDIVIDUAL/FAMILY MEMBERSHIP DUES [Annual]
Item: 398 Price: $30.00
LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP [Individual]
Item: 396 Price: $300.00
NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION MEMBERSHIP [Annual]
Item: 391 Price: $20.00
BUSINESS MEMBERSHIP [Annual]
Item: 014 Price: $50.00
COLLEGE STUDENT MEMBERSHIP [Annual]
Item: 394 Price: $10.00
4. Vital Records
1850 WASHINGTON COUNTY CENSUS, ANNOTATED
Published by Holston Territory Genealogical Society, 545 pps, Hardbound.
Item: 010 Price: $19.95
1870 WASHINGTON COUNTY CENSUS
Edited by Jack Hockett, 194 pps, paperback.
Item: 012 Price: $30.00
MARRIAGES, WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1781-1853
Compiled by D. E. Brown. Includes short sketches of the early ministers of the county, 162 pps, paperback.
Item: 025 Price: $12.00
MARRIAGES, WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1891-1902
Compiled by Hunt and Hockett.
Item: 023 Price: $27.00
HIGH ON A WINDY HILL, VOL I [REPRINT]
Cemeteries of Washington County, Virginia by Catherine McConnell (Including surname index). 333 cemeteries, 426 pages, 1968.
Item: 042 Price: $18.00
1860 WASHINGTON COUNTY CENSUS
Reproduction of original census. Six Schedules plus index. Softcover.
Item: 011 Price: $5.00
1880 WASHINGTON COUNTY CENSUS
Transcribed, Annotated and Edited by
Jack Hockett and Shelia Hunt Steele
Item: 017 Price: $35.00
MARRIAGES, WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1853-1880
Written by Thomas Colley, 511 pps, softcover.
Item: 027 Price: $35.00
SELECTED DEATH RECORDS, WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Donald W. Helton
Item: 207 Price: $44.95
UNFILED DEATH RECORDS, WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
Compiled by D. E. Brown. Over 2,800 death records of Washington County, Virginia including Parents, Place of Birth, and Consort.
Item: 061 Price: $20.00
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
5. Books
PLACES IN TIME - VOL I
Pictorial history of homes and buildings in Abingdon, 1788 - 1880. By Nanci C. King.
Item: 035 Price: $16.00
PLACES IN TIME - VOL III
Pictorial history of homes and buildings south from Abingdon to the Holston. By Nanci C. King.
Item: 037 Price: $16.00
HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WASHINGTON COUNTY
The history of Southwest Virginia and Washington County by Lewis Preston Summers. 921 pps.
Item: 044 Price: $42.50
ARCHEOLOGY IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Written by Charles S. Bartlett, Jr., 3-ring binder.
Item: 067 Price: $20.00
THE BATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN, EYEWITNESS ACCOUNTS
Author: Robert M. Dunkerly, Paperback, 160 pages, Publisher: The History Press, 2007.
Item: 311 Price: $19.99
WASHINGTON COUNTY MONUMENT [DAR/REVOLUTIONARY WAR]
Brief biographical descriptions of Revolutionary War soldiers listed on the Washington County monument; 12 pps, paperback.
Item: 050 Price: $1.00
CLEVELAND ON THE CLINCH
By Kathy Shearer
Oral and pictorial histories on this Russell County market town, founded on the Norfolk and Western line in 1889. Also, stories and pictures from Mill Creek to Combs Valley. Hundreds of pictures, 472 pages, hardback.
Item: 205 Price: $38.00
FIRE TOWER
A young man charged with watching over thousands of forest acres is taken hostage by a desperate man. He struggles to save himself, a young child, and the pristine woodlands in the face of a raging forest fire. By Jack Kestner. Paperback.
Item: 028 Price: $6.00
O. WINSTON LINK - THE MAN AND THE MUSEUM
Story of railroad photographer O. Winston Link.
SEE OUR 3 WINSTON LINK POSTERS UNDER "EPHERMA"
Item: 033 Price: $14.95
WILDER DAYS
Coal Town Life on Dumps Creek
The towns are gone, but the memories live on in words and pictures. Histories of four small vanished coal towns in Russell County, Virginia.
By Kathy Shearer
Item: 054 Price: $35.00
NATURAL TUNNEL: NATURE'S MARVEL IN STONE
by Tony Scales
Item: 032 Price: $19.95
PLUMB FULL OF HISTORY
Abingdon, Virginia's Plumb Alley Day frames this story of two children discovering much more than the history of their grandmother's hometown.
By Donna Akers Warmuth
Item: 038 Price: $9.95
FINDING FRANKLIN: Mystery of the
Lost State Capitol By Joe Tennis
Fun for kids of all ages: On a summer fishing trip near Greeneville,
Tn., a boy from Abingdon, Va., and his cousin from Knoxville, Tn.,
discover what may be the clue to the "lost fortune" of the lost
capitol building of the Lost State of Franklin.
Based on actual history and set in real-life places along the Tennessee-Virginia
border, the heroes comically try to uncover the real-life mystery
of a missing cabin, lost since 1897. Encountering ghostly legends
along the way, the boys and their uncles journey across Virginia,
Tennessee and North Carolina, discovering Bristol Caverns, a secret
silver mine on Unaka Mountain - and even The Crooked Road: Virginia's
Heritage Music Trail, leading to Franklin County, Virginia!
Includes a map, 12 illustrations, and an epilogue essay on the history
of the Lost State of Franklin.
Item: 079 Price: $6.95
INN IN ABINGDON
A "haunting" romance, by Donnie Stevens
Item: 048 Price: $11.95
HAUNTS OF VIRGINIA'S BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS
By Joe Tennis
Across a maze of mountains and along the crooked road, phantom voices whisper and strange footsteps echo down long-forgotten paths....
Item: 317 Price: $14.95
LEGENDS, STORIES AND GHOSTLY TALES OF ABINGDON AND WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Hangings, hauntings, Civil War soldiers, and hidden treasure are all in these stories. Meet the ghosts of the Martha Washington Inn, the Barter Theatre, the Virginia Creeper Trail, Emory and Henry College and Saltville.
By Donna Akers Warmuth
Item: 020 Price: $14.95
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
VIRGINIA CREEPER TRAIL COMPANION
The 34-mile-long Virginia Creeper Trail, which runs from Abingdon, Virginia, to the North Carolina line near Whitetop Mountain, is the most poplar trail in Virginia.
Overmountain Press, 104 pps
Item: 008 Price: $9.95
TEMPORARILY OUT OF STOCK
THE OLD MAN: JOHN BROWN AT HARPER'S FERRY
324 pps, paperback
Item: 206 Price: $17.00
PLACES IN TIME - VOL II
Pictorial history of homes and buildings in Abingdon, Meadowview and Glade Spring, Virginia. By Nanci C. King.
Item: 036 Price: $16.00
PLACES IN TIME - VOLUMES I, II, and III
All three volumes of Nanci King's pictorial history of houses and buildings in Southwest Virginia.
Item: 059 Price: $36.00
ANNALS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, 1769-1800
Botetourt, Fincastle, Montgomery, Washington, Wythe Co. by Lewis Preston Summers, 2 Volumes (1992 Reprint).
Item: 002 Price: $72.50
WASHINGTON COUNTY, A TO Z
Compiled by nine students under the supervision of Historical Society volunteers. The aim is to stimulate interest in local history for both students and adults, 61 pps.
Item: 001 Price: $7.50
KINGS MOUNTAIN PARTICIPANTS
A listing of the participants in the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain.
Item: 019 Price: $2.50
THE FORTS OF THE HOLSTON MILITIA
"The Forts of the Holston Militia is a valuable addition to individuals who have an interest in the early frontier history of Southwest Virginia."
Harold L. Jerrell, President, Daniel Boone Wilderness Trail.
By Lawrence J. Fleenor and Dale Carter, 265 pps.
Item: 200 Price: $35.00
SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA CROSSROADS
By Joe Tennis
The mountains, rivers, and lakes of Southwest Virginia have invited explorers since the mid-1700s. Now this land beckons the modern traveler with its siren song of beauty, wonder, and history.
Item: 015 Price: $29.95
VIEW FROM THE MOUNTAIN
Stray dogs, hummingbirds, and seasonal cycles at Hayters Gap: These were trademark topics for the late Jack Kestner, beloved and respected columnist for nearly 18 years for the Bristol Herald Courier. Now 108 of Jack's best columns have been compiled by his three children. By Jack Kestner.
Item: 034 Price: $8.00
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF WILBURN WATERS
The famous hunter and trapper of White Top Mountain, by Charles B. Coale, 81 pps, paperback.
Item: 009 Price: $5.95
NOTABLE WOMEN WEST OF THE BLUE RIDGE, 1850-1950
A project by the Colonel William Preston Chapter, National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Item: 204 Price: $14.95
LEGACY IN CLAY
History of pottery in Washington County, Virginia, 44 pp., by William King Regional Arts Center.
Item: 029 Price: $8.00
HANNAH'S HOUSE, A SOUTHERN CABIN
Written by a grandmother for her three grandchildren, whom she felt needed to know more about the pioneers of the Southern states, Hanna’s House contains both true and fictional stories about cabin life. Many pioneer objects are mentioned, and each had an important job in the lives of the Southern settlers.
By Joyce A. Kistner
Item: 018 Price: $10.00
BEACH TO BLUEGRASS
Places to brake on Virginia's longest road!
By Joe Tennis
Beach to Bluegrass collects 500 miles of both famous and nearly-unknown tales of Virginia - from the shores of the Atlantic Ocean to the majestic mountains on the Kentucky border at Cumberland Gap's "Gateway to the West." Uniquely, all stories lie within a close proximity of U.S. 58, the longest road in Virginia.
Included are several tales and photos related to Washington County and Bristol, such as Eleanor Roosevelt's 1933 visit to Whitetop Mountain; photographer O. Winston Link's fascination with the railroad that is now the Virginia Creeper Trail; legends of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus; the Martha Washington College in Abingdon; the snakes and turtles traded to get into Barter Theatre; history of the Moonlite Theatre; the truth of why the Wetlands Trail was really built at Sugar Hollow Park; and why "The Offset" was created along the Virginia-Tennessee border. Includes two maps and more than 100 photos, plus road directions and bibliography. 158pp.
Item: 046 Price: $17.95
THE MARBLE AND OTHER GHOST TALES OF TENNESSEE AND VIRGINIA
By Joe Tennis
Abingdon's legendary ghost tales of the The Tavern, Martha
Washington Inn and Barter Theatre are presented in "The Marble and
Other Ghost Tales of Tennessee and Virginia," a collection the entire
family will enjoy. This 22-story book features the story of the ghost
that smokes cigarettes at Honaker High School; the Creekfield Woman
who inhabits Green Cove Creek; the ghostly alumni house at Emory &
Henry College; and stories from Tennessee towns like Jonesborough,
Greeneville, Mountain City and Erwin. Illustrated. Includes
bibiography.
Item: 393 Price: $6.99
MELUNGEONS OUT OF THE DUNGEON
Item: 315 Price: $9.95
THE VIRGINIA CREEPER
By Doug McGuinn
Item: 045 Price: $15.00
Arcadia Books
WASHINGTON COUNTY REVISITED
New from Arcadia, 128 pps., by Donna Akers Warmuth
Item: 389 Price: $21.99
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA THEN AND NOW
Item: 005 Price: $21.99
BRISTOL, VIRGINIA/TENNESSEE
Pictorial history of Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee.
Item: 022 Price: $21.99
SMYTH COUNTY
Photo history of Smyth County, Virginia, paperback, 128 pps.
Item: 006 Price: $21.99
NORFOLK AND WESTERN RAILWAY
Photo history of Norfolk and Western Railroad. Paperback, 128 pps.
Item: 318 Price: $21.99
SULLIVAN COUNTY
Item: 058 Price: $21.99
HILTONS
Photo history of Hiltons, Virginia
Item: 071 Price: $21.99
SALTVILLE, VIRGINIA
Pictorial history of Saltville, Virginia
By Jeff Weaver
Item: 052 Price: $21.99
WASHINGTON COUNTY
Pictorial history of Washington County, Virginia
Item: 395 Price: $21.99
ABINGDON, VIRGINIA
Photo history of Abingdon, Virginia.
Item: 004 Price: $21.99
BRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY
By David M. McGee and Sonya A. Haskins
When Bristol's racetrack opened in 1961, tickets were often given away to fill the 18,000 seats. Over the years, Bristol Motor Speedway has grown to 160,000 seats and legendary status among race fans.
128pps
Item: 053 Price: $21.99
SMYTH COUNTY REVISITED
By Kimberly Barr Byrd and Debbie J. Williams, 128 pps, paperback.
Item: 013 Price: $21.99
SOUTHERN RAILROAD
Photo history of Southern Railroad, paperback, 128 pps.
Item: 007 Price: $21.99
TAZEWELL VIRGINIA
Item: 304 Price: $21.99
RUSSELL COUNTY, VIRGINIA
Item: 070 Price: $21.99
6. Ephemera
SKETCHES OF OLD ABINGDON
By Muriel Kenly Vance and Elizabeth Baker Grant
Item: 039 Price: $5.00
O. WINSTON LINK POSTER
MAX MEADOWS
Item: 057 Price: $35.00
O. WINSTON LINK POSTER
TRESTLE #52 [COLOR]
Item: 060 Price: $35.00
TRAIN STATION AND HSWCV T-SHIRT
This light blue T-shirt has the Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia logo
on the front and a drawing of the Abingdon, Virginia Train Depot centered on the back.
Available Sizes: Adult S/M/L/XL and Child M/L.
Item: 316 Price: $15.00
ABINGDON POSTER
11" x 16" poster depicting several Abingdon landmarks, by Mike Pierry, Jr.
Item: 303 Price: $7.50
NOTE PAPER, TICKET WINDOW [SINGLE]
Item: 065 Price: $1.50
MAP, 1890 WASHINGTON COUNTY
Includes grid and index, (36"x24") Blueprint copy
Item: 021 Price: $10.00
PRINT OF BATTLE OF KINGS MOUNTAIN
20" x 16" Kings Mountain print suitable for framing.
Item: 312 Price: $10.00
O. WINSTON LINK POSTER
MAUDE AT GREEN COVE
Item: 072 Price: $35.00
POSTER NORFOLK AND WESTERN ENGINE 433 [ABINGDON'S "MOLLIE"]
11" x 18" poster by Michael J. Pierry, Jr.
Item: 056 Price: $7.50
ENGINEER'S CAP (CHILD), WOODEN TRAIN WHISTLE AND RED BANDANA
This three item set is a great gift for any child who loves trains. Included is
a child size Engineer's cap, a wooden trail whistle, and a red bandana.
Item: 040 Price: $10.00
ABINGDON POSTER
20" x 26" poster of various historic sites in Abingdon, by Mike Pierry, Jr.
Item: 217 Price: $5.00
NOTE PAPER, TICKET WINDOW [SET]
Note paper with envelopes.
Item: 064 Price: $6.00
7. Historical Society Bulletins
Series II, #1 and #5, 1965
Colonel Arthur Campbell, Frontier Leader and Patriot, by Robert L. Kincaid, 18pp; John Montgomery 1717-1802, his military and civil service in early counties of SW VA, by Agnes Graham Riley, 14pp.
Item: 101 Price: $5.00
Series II, #3, 1966
Evolution of Land Ownership in SW VA; The Case of Tazewell Co., by J.A. Neal, 17 pp.
Item: 103 Price: $5.00
Series II, #6, 1968
Historical Houses of Washington County, Virginia, Illus., 47 pp.
Item: 106 Price: $5.00
Series II, #8, 1970
Story of "The Office", by Jane Douglas Summers Brown; Ebenezer Brooks-Forgotten Genius of the Holston Territory, by Gordon Aronhime; James Newell 1749-1823, by Agnes Sanders Riley; 1782 Tithables of Washington County, VA (cont'd), 48 pp.
Item: 108 Price: $5.00
Series II, #10 and #11, 1973
Traditional Pottery in Washington Co., VA and Sullivan Co., TN, by Klell B. Napps; Joe Meeks-Washington County's Westerner, by Claude W. Nash; The Meeks and Their Neighbors, by Publication Committee; Geographical Sketch of the Meeks Neighborhood 1772-1839; Memorandum of the Meeks, from Bibles contributed by D.M. Epps; Meek Bible Records, collected by Margaret W. Huff; Jarrett Hill, Herb Doctor of Washington County, by Julia Hill Sales; General Daniel Smith - based on the journal of Gen. Smith (1779-1780); Vance Tavern, by Mary Dudley Porterfield; Black's Fort, Site of the First Court Held in Washington Co., VA, by C.McConnell, 55 pp.
Item: 110 Price: $5.00
Series II, #13, 1976
Fortieth Anniversary Issue: How the Society was organized; Judge Walter H. Robertson, by Margie Robertson; History of the Washington Ladle, by Mary Preston Gray; Physicians of the Holston in the 18th Century, by Gordon Aronhime; Men of the American Revolution Buried in Washington Co., 35 pp.
Item: 113 Price: $5.00
Series II, #15, 1978
Hunting for His People - story of a black man returning to Va. after being sold south, by John Warfield Johnston; King and Lynn Inventory 1809; The Wilburn Waters Portrait by Lillian S. Butt; Court Minutes 1777 Washington Co., VA (Concluded), 58 pp.
Item: 115 Price: $5.00
Series II, #18, 1981
Slavery on Upper Holston; History of Courts of Washington Co., VA; The Jockey Lot, 30 pp.
Item: 118 Price: $5.00
Series II, #20, 1983
Minutes of Abingdon Town Council 1778-1860; Public Roads of Washington Co, 34 pp.
Item: 120 Price: $5.00
Series II, #22, 1985
Brigadier General William Campbell 1745-1781, by Agnes Graham Riley, 32 pp.
Item: 122 Price: $5.00
Series II, #24, 1987
Daniel Boone as a Virginian, by Walter H. Hendricks; An Economic Survey of Southwest Virginia During the Ante-Bellum Period, by Jack Garland, 15pp.
Item: 124 Price: $5.00
Series II, #26, 1989
High on A Windy Hill, Index and Addendum, arranged alphabetically by surname, giving cemetery number, includes maps showing location by number of 333 Washington Co. Cemeteries included in High On A Windy Hill by Catherine McConnell. Compiled by Jack and Rubinette Niemann, 107 pp.
Item: 126 Price: $5.00
Series II, #28, 1991
Story of the Preston Mansion/Martha Washington College/Martha Washington Inn, by L.C. Angle, Jr., Illus., 42 pp.
Item: 128 Price: $5.00
Series II, #30, 1993
The Civil War in Southwest Virginia, by Cathy Carlson Reynolds; "The One Who Brought the Flag Home", David Lowery of Washington Co.,VA, by Winston B. Wine; Konnarock: The Anatomy of a Company Town - A Memoir, by Robert Foster; Confederate Monument Dedication June 3, 1909, Abingdon: Address by Judge John A. Buchanan, 43pp.
Item: 130 Price: $5.00
Series II, #32, 1995
John B. Floyd, edited by Dr. Edwin Hardison; Co. B 37th Virginia Volunteer Regiment, by Scott Arnold for Master's Thesis, Emory and Henry College; History of Green Spring Presbyterian Church, edited by Dr. Ed Hardison, 54 pp.
Item: 132 Price: $5.00
Series II, #34, 1997
Death of Eliza Dunn Jones, by James Buchanan Ballard; Shelby Campbell King's Mountain Controversy and Gubernatorial Campaign of 1812, by Agnes Graham Sanders Riley; Register of the Collonade Hotel, by Charles H. Carson; Adam Hayter and Susannah Darrock, Pioneers of Washington County, Virginia, by Paul C. Buchanan, 39 pp.
Item: 134 Price: $5.00
Series II, #36, 1999
Remembering Aunt Mabel, by Walter Hendricks; No Need for a Landfill, by Kathleen R. Taylor; Searching for Communities, Dying and Burial in 1800's, by David Farris, Sr; Bristol's Marrying Parson, by Bud Phillips; Letters from the Past, Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels, by Hendrika Schuster; Carrying the Mail on Horseback, by Dennis Graham, Washington Co.; VA Post Offices and Postmasters 1792-1992, extracted by J. and R. Niemann, 50 pp.
Item: 136 Price: $5.00
Series II, #38, 2001
Early Settlers of Washington Co., by Randall W. Smith; Early Abingdon Taverns, Inns, by Nanci King; Forgotten Population-Free Black Community in Washington County 1800-1850, by Dr. Michael J. Puglisi; Bear/Bare Tale About Wilburn Waters; Scalded to Death by the Steam, by Hendrika Schuster and Mike Pierry,Jr; Lou V.P. Crabtree, Virginia Laureate in Literature, interview by Judy K. Miller; Chataigne's Virginia Gazetteer and Business Directory: Washington Co., VA 1888-1889, 79 pp.
Item: 138 Price: $5.00
Series II, #39a, 2002
The Search for Frankie Newton, by Jennifer Wagner, 22 pp.
Item: 239 Price: $5.00
Series II, #41, 2004
Tales Told by Walls of House-Retirement, by Mary Landrum; Mayhem Strikes Abingdon-Rest of the Story, by Robert Craig; Reminiscent of Schoolmates at Abingdon Academy, by Mary H. Everett; Bonson Brand Apples, by David Bonham; Dressing Up Miss Mollie #433, by Charles Seaver; Trip to Island Road is Trip into Lore of the Past, by Gordon Aronhime; Bob Porterfield as I Remember Him, by Patricia Cosby; William Sievers Sought to put "Soul" into Bronze, Hendrika Schuster; Posh Shop on Lot No 22, by Gordon Aronhime; A Singular One Room School-Duncansville School, by May Jo Craig and Hendrika Schuster, 61 pp.
Item: 141 Price: $5.00
Series II, #43, 2006
Dalton, Georgia's Lonely Monument, by Lowry Bowman; Fathers and Sons at the Battle of King's Mountain, by J. David Dameron; The Virginia and Tennessee Railroad 1830's-1860's, by Josh Jones; The Mary Dalton Frye Private Secretarial School, by Carlotta Sanders Franklin; Lessons for Life, by Kitty Clark Baird; Blackboard Memories of a One-Room School, by Gladys Richardson Thompson; My Navy Years as a WAVE (1942-1947), by Virginia Tate Taggart; History of Penn-Stuart and Virginia House, by G.R.C. Stuart; Establishment of Methodism in SW Virginia, by Greg McMillan; An English War Bride Comes to America, by Mrs. Peta Patton, 71 pp.
Item: 143 Price: $5.00
Series II, #45, 2008
My Years in the Women's Auxiliary Army Corp and Women's Army Corps in WW II, by Anna Rasey Elliott; The Mound at Sinking Spring Cemetery, by Gene Mathis; George Newton Wertz, Photographer, by Meade Campbell; A Late, Late Book Review - The Long Hunter, by Hendrika Schuster; Mary Craig Caldwell Rhea, by Eleanor Grasselli; Fairview, by W. Dale Carter and Wilma Smith; David Carson of Washington County, Va., by William Schrader; Riddle's Fort on Holston, by Wilma Smith; Appendix: Membership in Historical Society as of 11/30/2007, by Riley Clark, 56 pp.
Item: 145 Price: $5.00
Series II, #47, 2010
The Antebellum Years of William E. "Grumble" Jones, by James Buchanan Ballard; A Miraculous Trip into the Past, by Val Kendall; A Proclamation on the Occasion of the Annual Celebration of Veterans Day Specifically Recognizing the "Overmountain Men", November 11, 2009, by Michael R. Worrell, Esq. and W. Garrett Jackson, delivered by French Moore, Jr., Vice-Mayor of Abingdon, VA, 54pp.
Item: 147 Price: $5.00
Series II, #49, 2012
War of 1812: Time Line of 1811 and 1812, compilied by Eleanor Grasselli; A History of the Abingdon Society of the Church of New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian), by Garrett Jackson; Black's Fort Chapter, DAR, Remembering Our 90 Years, by Kitty McConnell Henninger; The Cohabitation List of Freed Slaves and Free Persons of Color in Washington County, VA, 1866, by James W. Hagy, PhD; Partial Cohabitation List, James W. Hagy, PhD; Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the American Civil War-Time Line 1862, compiled by Mike Shaffer; The Civil War Years of William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones, Part II, The Seventh Virginia Calvalry Regiment, July 20 to November 8, 1862, by James Buchanan Ballard, 52pp.
Item: 149 Price: $5.00
Series II, #2, 1966
Bledsoe Family of Virginia and Tennessee, beginning with George Bledsoe; 1965-66 President's report, by John Blakemore, 20pp.
Item: 102 Price: $5.00
Series II, #4, 1967
The Lumber Industry in Southwest Virginia-developing timber lands, saw mills and lumber companies in Southwest Virginia, by Luther C. Hassinger, 16pp.
Item: 104 Price: $5.00
Series II, #7, 1968/9
History of the 48th Virginia Infantry, VA Volunteer Army of Confederacy, Companies and officers, by James A. Casada, 48 pp; 1782 Tithables of Washington, Co., VA (cont'd), 42pp.
Item: 107 Price: $5.00
Series II, #9, 1971
The Cosby Papers, contains map of lots in Abingdon ca. 1850 and tells who lived in the homes; 1782 Tithables of Washington County, VA (concluded ), 48 pp.
Item: 109 Price: $5.00
Series II, #12, 1975
Michael Shaver, Silversmith, by Lillian S, Butt. Illus.; Washington Co. Grist Mills, by Bernard L. Herman, Illus., 63 pp.
Item: 112 Price: $5.00
Series II, #14, 1977
Court Minutes 1777, Washington Co., VA (Cont'd in #15); Story of the Tiffany Glass Window; Story of the Confederate Monument, by Klell B, Napps, 38 pp.
Item: 114 Price: $5.00
Series II, #16 and #17, (1991 Reprint)
The 1772 Cummings Petition: Location of the homes of the signers petitioning Rev. Charles Cummings; King and Lynn Inventory (concluded); Three Memoirs by Sarah C. Brown, Rachel Ann Scott, and Alfred McThenia on history of SW VA, 63 pp.
Item: 116 Price: $5.00
Series II, #19, 1982
Thomas Mastin: Important Unknown of the Early Clinch River Settlement, by Gordon Aronhime; Extracts from the James T. Preston papers.. edit by George Stevenson; 105th Militia of Washington Co., VA 1861-1865, 31pp.
Item: 119 Price: $5.00
Series II, #21, 1984
Guardian Bonds: 1780-1876, abstracted from Washington Co., VA Court Records and arranged in Chronological order, 105 pp.
Item: 121 Price: $5.00
Series II, #23, 1986
50th Anniversary of the Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia, by Lillian S. Butt; The Final Bivouac: Capt. Frank S. Robertson, son of Gov. Wyndham Robertson and last surviving member of Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's staff; Reminiscence of the Years 1861-1865; The Meadows, edited by L.C. Angle, Jr. and Edwin T. Hardison, 40 pp.
Item: 123 Price: $5.00
Series II, #25, 1988
The Washington County News: A Look at the Past, by Lowry Bowman; War Comes to the Highlands, by L.C. Angle,Jr., 29 pp.
Item: 125 Price: $5.00
Series II, #27, 1990
Stephen Holston: Frontiersman, Adventurer, Revolutionary Soldier and Discoverer, by Douglas Summers Brown; Chancery Order Book A : 1831-1835, by Angela Hurt, 77 pp.
Item: 127 Price: $5.00
Series II, #29, 1992
To the Halls of Montezuma: Samuel Vance Fulkerson's Journal Kept During Mexican War, edited by Dr. George Stevenson, 69 pp.
Item: 129 Price: $5.00
Series II, #31, 1994
The Story of the Abingdon Rotary Club, by G.C. Culberson; Saltville: Salt Capital of the Confederacy, by Michael Holmes; "Tributes to Daniel Tripp and J. W. McBroom by Thomas W. Colley", transcribed and edited by Michael Holmes, 30 pp.
Item: 131 Price: $5.00
Series II, #33, 1996
Remembrances Part I and II, by Walter H. Hendricks; David Campbell, The Governor and The Man, by Hendrika Schuster; Wyndham Robertson, by Robyn Mundy; 100 Years of the History of Abingdon (reprint), by Lewis Preston Summers; Unveiling of the Marker on the Old Home of Gen. Francis Preston (now Martha Washington Inn), by L.P. Summers, 89 pp.
Item: 133 Price: $5.00
Series II, #35, 1998
When "John the Baptist" Traveled Our Roads: A Tale of Virginia Intermont College, by Hendrika Schuster; Roosevelts in Southwest Virginia, Part I: Elliott Roosevelt: A Man in Mental Torment; Part 2: Corinne (Roosevelt) and Douglas Robinson, by Henrika Schuster; Sketch of the Life of Rev. Charles Cummings by Gov. David Campbell; Historical Calendar of Washington County, by Carl V. Eskridge; A Visit from Nellie Wisler: A Different Perspective on the Carroll County Courthouse Tragedy, by William G. Lord, 59 pp.
Item: 135 Price: $5.00
Series II, #37, 2000
Sacred Honor, by Rev. Frederick R. Trumbore; Beyond Admiration and Loyalty, by Hendrika Schuster; Examples of 18th Century Female Courage, by Hendrika Schuster; Letters of the Past, The Lives They Lived Together-Blacks and Whites at Montcalm 1827-1860, by Dr. Norma Mitchell; Generals' Memorial: Heros of Washington County, by L.C. Angle; Two Swords Which Inspired Two Boys, by Hendrika Schuster; John Hunt Morgan, by Roy L. Sturgill; More Obscure First Ladies, The Schools on William King Hill, by Betsy K. Owens and Betsy White; Historical Society REGISTRY Program by Ina Stephenson, 76 pp.
Item: 137 Price: $5.00
Series II, #39, 2002
SW VA's Men of Iron in Revolutionary War, by Walter Hendricks; Old Powder Mill Dam of Washington Co., by Any Burks; Letters of the Past; Robert Edwin Miles of 21st VA Cavalry, by L.C. Angle, Jr; History of Abingdon Branch Line, by Mike Hicks; Medicine as Practiced in 20th Century, by Lewis F. Cosby, MD; Measure of a Peck; Excerpts of Minutes from Historical Society 1830-1990's, by Dr. Klell Napps, 83 pp.
Item: 139 Price: $5.00
Series II, #40, 2003
Abingdon Train Station, by Klell Napps; The Horse Behind the Photograph, by Hendrika Schuster; Call to Duty-2nd Lt. Charles Dennis Smith of Damascus, VA, by Eleanor Grasselli; Mayhem Strikes Abingdon, by Robert Craig; Judgment at Dalton, by James B. Ballard; Boyhood Years in Abingdon 1920-1930, by Lewis F. Cosby, MD; The Great Pig War, by Lowry Bowman; Courthouse Hill-Site of Law and Order, by James Hagy; Trial of Jefferson Davis, by Hendrika Schuster; Family Files in Library as of Jan 9, 2003, 76 pp.
Item: 140 Price: $5.00
Series II, #42, 2005
Surviving the London Blitz, by Peta Patton; Early Washington County Forts Providing Protection for New Settlers, by Joe Goodpasture; James Barrett and the 37th Virginia Infantry, by Dean Harry; Pioneer Women of Southwest VA, by Gail Marney; Life and Death of a Log House, by Faye Hortenstine; Call to Duty-Action at Rimling, Alsation Forest France, New Year's Eve, 1944, by Lowry Bowman; Bats in the Garrett, by Walter Hendricks; For The Love of 900 Year Old Beauties, by Mary Dudley Porterfield; Judges Washington Co, VA 1811 , and Washington Co, VA Members House of Representatives, 62 pp.
Item: 142 Price: $5.00
Series II, #44, 2007
The Confederate Yankee, by Gene Matthis; Capt. Samuel Thompson Buchanan, CSA, by James Buchanan Ballard; Washington County's Confederate Generals, by Mike Shaffer; 37th Infantry Div of VA at Antietam, by Mark Hall; Edmondson Family at King's Mountain, by Howard V. Jones; William King and Ocean Crossings, by Mary B. Kegley; Tennessee Valley Authority and Its Impact, by L.C. Angle, Jr and Hendrika Schuster; Leonard Chester Angle, Jr., by Kitty Henninger; 1936 to 2006 (HSWC), by John H Roper; Riding on the Last Excursion of the Virginia Creeper, by Anna Elliott, 86 pp.
Item: 144 Price: $5.00
Series II, #46, 2009
Bazel and Susannah Bryan Boren of Washington County, Virginia, by Kerry Ross Boren; Grave Marker in Sinking Spring Cemetery: Fields-Baldwin Plot Inscription, Ellen Stuart, Daughter of W. W. and M. A. Hicks, Born August 13, 1885-Died June 19, 1890, by Patricia Craig Johnson; Field Diary, Febraury 27 to December 25, 1913 of Mr. Robert P. Holdsworth, Forest Assistant, Abingdon, VA, condensed by Eleanor Grasselli; Abingdon Orders Quarrelsome Women Ducked, by Carl V. Eskridge; The Prayer of Blessing, Gathering of the Overmountain Men and Dedication of "Retirement", Colonial Road, Abingdon, Virginia, Delivered September 22, 2007, by Robert N. Lominack, Jr.; The Hutton Brothers Go to War, by Mark F. Hall, 62 pp
Item: 146 Price: $5.00
Series II, #48, 2011
Seventy-fifth Anniversary Edition, Roster of Presidents, 1936-2011; In Memoriam 2006-2011; James and Alice Hilton in Abingdon, by Robert Warren, Jr.; Uncle Sam Wants Who???, by Gale Dennison; A Proclamation on the Occasion of the Dedication of the W. Blair Keller Interpretation Center, by Garrett Jackson, delivered by Mayor Ed Morgan; What Do Johnny Appleseed, Arthur Campbell and Abingdon Have in Common?, by David Winship; Sesquicentennial Commemoration of the American Civil War: Time Line of Some Events of 1861; The Civil War Years of William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones, Part I, July, 1861 to April, 1862, by James Buchanan Ballard, 52pp.
Sale Items !!!
A 144 page book by Russell County cartoonist Gary Kawapisz. The book is packed with black and white drawings by Kawapisz and stories by Chuck Dixon. The presentation makes the book particularly appropriate for the younger reader, and interesting for adults as well. Scattered throughout the pages are historical nuggets regarding the War and those who struggled during those epic times.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA, IN THE CIVIL WAR
THEN AND NOW: WASHINGTON COUNTY
TALES FROM THE MOONSHINE TRADE
HIGH ON A WINDY HILL, VOL I [REPRINT]
HISTORY OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA AND WASHINGTON COUNTY
Fun for kids of all ages: On a summer fishing trip near Greeneville,
Tn., a boy from Abingdon, Va., and his cousin from Knoxville, Tn.,
discover what may be the clue to the "lost fortune" of the lost
capitol building of the Lost State of Franklin.
INN IN ABINGDON
ANNALS OF SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA, 1769-1800
Included are several tales and photos related to Washington County and Bristol, such as Eleanor Roosevelt's 1933 visit to Whitetop Mountain; photographer O. Winston Link's fascination with the railroad that is now the Virginia Creeper Trail; legends of the Appalachian Trail in Damascus; the Martha Washington College in Abingdon; the snakes and turtles traded to get into Barter Theatre; history of the Moonlite Theatre; the truth of why the Wetlands Trail was really built at Sugar Hollow Park; and why "The Offset" was created along the Virginia-Tennessee border. Includes two maps and more than 100 photos, plus road directions and bibliography. 158pp.
