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Pictorial history of homes and buildings in Abingdon, 1788 - 1880. By Nanci C. King.
Item: 35
Price: $20.00

Pictorial history of homes and buildings in Abingdon, Meadowview and Glade Spring, Virginia. By Nanci C. King.
Item: 36
Price: $20.00

Pictorial history of homes and buildings in Abingdon, Meadowview and Glade Spring, Virginia. By Nanci C. King.
Item: 37
Price: $40.00

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: 42
Price: $18.00

The long-awaited book, CEMETERIES OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA has just been released. It updates the well-known High On A Windy Hill cemetery book published in 1969. Contains additions and corrections to more than 333 cemeteries listed in High On A Windy Hill. Hardbound, 642 pages. Item: 421
Price: $49.95

Southwest Virginia Crossroads is a history and guide in 17 counties and four cities - from Blacksburg to Big Stone Gap. Journey along the Blue Ridge Parkway, the back roads, and the byways of this fabled region, where the mountains stand a mile high in the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area. Discover 26 lakes and 50 waterfalls - with road directions, trail directions, boat launches, fishing tips, and local folklore. The second edition of this critically-acclaimed local bestseller contains 39 maps and 158 photographs - including 20 photos that are new to this edition. 180 pages. Item: 015
Price: $29.95

Route 58 stretches across all five hundred miles of Virginia, from the sandy shores of the Atlantic to the waterfalls and wild ponies of the Blue Ridge Highlands. Author Joe Tennis provides a guide to Route 58 with a trail of tales, accompanied by easy driving directions and vivid photography. 224 pages. Item: 046
Price: $19.99

VIRGINIA RAIL TRAILS: CROSSING THE COMMONWEALTH - By Joe Tennis. Explore restored train stations, discover a railroad's lost island graveyard and cross the commonwealth on its idyllic paths. Softcover, 2014, 254 pps., including index. Item: 82
Price: $19.99

A Confederate soldier forever lost at Cumberland Gap. The wispy woman of Roanoke College. The spectral horse that runs the streets of Abingdon. These are just a few of the restless spirits of southwestern Virginia. By Joe Tennis. 115 pages. Item: 317
Price: $14.95

In this collection of twenty-two ghost tales, author Joe Tennis explores the legends and lore of the Mountain Empire, from Big Stone Gap and Abingdon in Virginia to Johnson City and Kingsport in Tennessee. 70 pages. Item: 393
Price: $6.99

Ghost stories from Virginia's Blue Ridge Highlands have never been so creepy, fun, and full of mystery! Dive into this spooky chapter book for suspenseful tales of bumps in the night, paranormal investigations, and the unexplained. 112 pages. Item: 423
Price: $12.99

Haunted Highlands: Ghosts and Legends of North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia explores twenty-two strange stories of restaurants, theaters, and schools plus peaks called Stone Mountain, Roan Mountain, Brown Mountain, and Beech Mountain. 68 pages. Item: 424
Price: $6.99

In an attempt to thoroughly cover this county in Virginia, Washington County Revisited explores the history of settlements that were once major community centers, including Lodi, Blackwell's Chapel, Rich Valley, Lindell, Bethel, Taylor's Valley, Hayter's Gap, Clinchburg, and Alvarado. Learn even more of the fascinating history surrounding the railroad towns of Damascus, Glade Spring, and Meadowview. By Donna Akers. 128 pps. Item: 389
Price: $21.99

Smyth County Revisited, depicts some of the history of the area. Come examine the first land tracts surveyed west of New River. Learn of the vast amount of history surrounding Fort Kilmackronan, which still stands today. Explore the Indian Fields, and learn of the ghosts that still haunt them. By Kimberly Barr Byrd and Debbie J. Williams. Item: 13
Price: $21.99

Situated in Virginia's southwestern corner in the splendor of the Blue Ridge Mountain Highlands, Marion and neighboring Hungry Mother State Park are steeped in natural beauty. By Kenneth Wm. Heath. Arcadia Publishing. Paperback. 128 Pages. Item: 251
Price: $21.99

The tracks of the Norfolk and Western Railway snaked through Virginia's Shenandoah Valley and the coalfields of West Virginia. By C. Nelson Harris. Arcadia Publishing. Paperback. 128 Pages. Item: 252
Price: $21.99

Published by Holston Territory Genealogical Society, 545 pps, Hardbound. Item: 10
Price: $10.95

Edited by Jack Hockett, 194 pps, paperback. Item: 12
Price: $30.00

Compiled by D. E. Brown. Includes short sketches of the early ministers of the county, 162 pps, paperback. Item: 25
Price: $12.00

Compiled by Hunt and Hockett. Item: 23
Price: $27.00

Annotated, with selected Confederate Civil War Fatalities Researched by Jack Hockett, compilied by Donald W. Helton, 2012 Item: 208
Price: $44.95

Transcribed, Annotated and Edited by Jack Hockett and Shelia Hunt Steele Item: 17
Price: $35.00

By Thomas Colley, 511 pps, softcover. Item: 27
Price: $35.00

Donald W. Helton Item: 207
Price: $44.95

June 1915-April 1926 Researched by Jack Hockett, compilied by Donald W. Helton, 2012 Item: 209
Price: $44.95

Compiled by D. E. Brown. Over 2,800 death records of Washington County, Virginia includes Parents, Place of Birth, and Consort. Item: 61
Price: $20.00

By Geo. W. L. Bickley, M.D. with added material compiled by J. Allen Neal. The first 96 pages are by J. Allen Neal. This contains updated and supplementary material. It is illustrated with a few drawings and a sketch map. The following 267 page section is a facsimile reprint of the 1852 edition, and this also has some facsimile illustrations, and includes the full-page facsimile map. This section also has an index. McClain Printing Company, 1974, Item #: 94
Price: $15.00

By James William Hagy. James Hagy is a Washington County native and retired professor of history at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC. The book is divided into 12 chapters, organized according to subject from "The Land and the People" and "Earliest Times", to the "Civil War". Hardcover, 2013, 306 pps. including index. Item: 328
Price: $47.50

By Lawrence J. Fleenor and Dale Carter, 265 pps. The Forts of the Holston Militia is a valuable addition to individuals who have an interest in the early frontier history of Southwest Virginia. Item: 200
Price: $37.50

By Robert M. Dunkerly. On October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. Over one hundred eyewitness accounts. Paperback, 160 pages, Publisher: The History Press, 2007 Item: 311
Price: $19.99

A listing of the participants in the 1780 Battle of Kings Mountain. Item: 19
Price: $2.50

Brief biographical descriptions of Revolutionary War soldiers listed on the Washington County monument; 12 pps, paperback. Item: 50
Price: $1.00

Thomas Wallace Colley's Recollections of Civil War Service in the 1st Virginia Cavalry, Edited by Michael K. Shaffer. The first modern scholarly edition of Colley’s writings, In Memory of Self and Comrades dramatizes Colley’s fate as a wounded soldier mustered out before the war’s conclusion. Item: 419
Price: $47.00

By Michael K. Shaffer. Quality Paperback, 128 pp. with Over 35 Photos ISBN 978-097247656-0. Though no major battles were fought on Washington County's soil, it became a key supply area for Confederate armies. Item: 16
Price: $19.99

The Life of a Cantankerous Confederate by James Buchanan Ballard. William Edmondson Grumble Jones (b. 1824) stands among the most notable Southwest Virginians to fight in the Civil War. Item: 413
Price: $39.99

AFTER THE WAR WAS OVER: RECONSTRUCTION IN WASHINGTON COUNTY, VIRGINIA 1865-1870. This essay is an examination of what happened during the Reconstruction Era in one place in the South, Washington County, Virginia. Soft cover, with photographs, 2015, 119 pages with index. Item: 329
Price: $18.99

1845 SKETCH OF OLD ABINGDON - Copy of an 1845 pen and ink sketch of old Abingdon drawn by Henry Howe. On cream-colored 8 1/2 X 11 inch paper. Item: 340
Price: $1.00

ABINGDON - A new book by Donna Akers in the Images of Modern America series. This collection of photographs and postcards is intended to allow residents and visitors to recall the decades from the 1950s to the 1980s with images of streetscapes, buildings, businesses, churches, schools, friends, and community leaders. Soft cover, 9 x 6", 95 pages, 2017 Item: 411
Price: $22.99

The Industries and Resources of the City of Bristol-Goodson - Tennessee and Virginia. A Historical and Descriptive Review Including Sketches of Its Public Spirited Men and Enterprising Business Establishments. Empire Publishing Company, New York, 1885. Item: 417
Price: $10.00

Historical Novel set at Martha Washington College, Abingdon, in 1915. The Martha Odyssey, by local author Bonny Gable, is a fictional story that weaves local history and legend into its pages. The campus of Martha Washington College, thriving today as The Martha Washington Inn & Spa, was once a vibrant scene of academic pursuit and social life for young women from myriad states in the American South. Gable’s book sweeps the reader into that world of early twentieth-century college life in a mystery tale of one young woman’s complex journey of determination and bravery.

The book can be purchased through Amazon by clicking the buy link or purchased locally at Holston Mountain Artisans or Abingdon Commons. Learn more at bonnygable.com.

Blue Ridge Chronicles - By Rex Bowman
Blue Ridge Chronicles, A Decade of Dispatches from Southwest Virginia by Rex Bowman, American Chronicles. Many of the highlanders in Virginia's western mountains live in small communities with names such as Stonebruise, Novelty, and Wangle Junction, and here their stories are chronicled by one of their own, Floyd County native and Pulitzer-nominated journalist Rex Bowman, roving reporter for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Paperback. The History Press. 160 Pages. Item: 043
Price: $20.00

Working for Stuarts: Life on One of the Oldest and Largest Cattle Farms East of the Mississippi - By Kathy Shearer. Working for Stuarts reveals the rich history of this immense farming operation whose family roots reach back to 1776. Soft cover (8 X 10), with 100s of photographs, 2015, 575 pages with index. Item: 401
Price: $40.00

The Extraordinary Life of William Alexander Stuart - From Antebellum to Late Victorian Virginia 1826 - 1892 by John White Stuart, III. The Extraordinary Life of William Alexander Stuart excerpts a wealth of previously unpublished primary sources to chart the 65 years of a talented, ambitious Southern man, who acquired great wealth despite the disruption of the Civil War. Item: 024
Price: $59.95

Myths of Samuel Newell, 1754 - 1841 - By Fred Weyler. This book identifies published errors regarding the biography of Samuel Newell. Item: 090
Price: $4.00

Leaving a Trail 2. Crabtree Bales Jackson - (Lynam) Presley - By Norma Jean Crabtree. Item: 250
Price: $2.00

Michael Sword - Ancestry and Historical Narrative - By Randy F. McNew Crouse. Michael Sword is the descendant of German immigrants who first arrived in Philadelphia in 1737. He served in the Revolutionary War in the Army and was in battles at Brandywine, Germantown, and Charleston, SC. Indexed. Fourth Edition. Full color front and back covers. Interior printed in black and white. Item: 321
Price: $13.95