New River Notes

Since 1998 - Historical and Genealogical Resources
for the Upper New River Valley of North Carolina and Virginia

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• Historical Files

  Files listed in chronological order

  • Study of the Flower Swift Militia Company in the Revolutionary War by James Quinn
  • The 1782 Washington County, VA Personal Property Tax List
  • 1782 Washington County VA Land Tax List (Link)
  • Washington County, Virginia Surveys 1781-1797 Contributed by Rhoda Robertson. This one is huge 593K.
  • Proclamation of Governor Patrick Henry Relative to Taxes in Washington County June 10, 1785
  • Pay abstracts from the Washington County, Virginia Militia - 1792
    
  • The 1806 Washington County, Virginia Personal Property Tax List - Lower District Only
  • On The Anniversary of the Battle of Kings Mountain October 7, 1810 by Francis Preston
  • Estray Records from Washington County, VA 1813-60 from Jack Hockett New
  • Miscellaneous Chancery Court Records by Jack Hockett New
  • Washington County, VA Slave Importations by Billy Markland
  • History of American Baptists - Virginia - 1848
  • Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory - Virginia -1851
  • Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia by Richard Edwards, 1854
  • The Virginia Civil War Home Page
  • Southwest Virginia County Data in Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory 1851-1852
  • 1852 Washington County, Va. Personal Property Tax List New
  • Report on the Salt and Gypsum of the Preston Salt Valley of the Holston River, Virginia by Prof. Henry D. Rogers, 1854
  • The Virginia Civil War Home Page
  • Letter from John B. Floyd to Samuel Cooper
  • 1862 Washington County, Virginia Tax List Upper District New
  • Southern Claims Commission Records for the New River Valley and surrounding area
  • The I. M. Rose Deposition before the Southern Claims Commission Courtesy of B. J. Markland
  • At the Laying of the Corner-Stone of the Abingdon Male Academy 1867 by Joseph Trigg Campbell
  • The Bristol Convention - 1868
  • 1868 Washington County, Virginia Tax List Upper District New
  • 1870 Washington County, Virginia Tax List Upper District New
  • 1871 Saltville Township Tax List New
  • Saltville Tax and Labor Records for 1872-73 from Jack Hockett New
  • Virginia School Report for 1874 (Grayson and surrounding Counties)
  • Annual Catalogue of Hamilton Institute for the year ending May 13th, 1880
  • Chataigne's Virginia Gazetteer 1888-89 (Southwest Virginia Counties)
  • The 1890 Union Veterans Census for Southwest Virginia Counties
  • Special Announcement Abingdon Male Academy 1896-1897
  • United Confederate Veteran Camps in Virginia 1904- 1905
  • Washington County History in World War I
  • Bristol City History in World War I
  • World War I Information
  • World War I Questionairres from the Library of Virginia
  • Personnel of Virginia Councils - 1917-1919
  • Miscellaneous Washington County, VA Death Records From Shelia Steele Hunt New
  • Miscellaneous Southwest Virginia Death Records Courtesy of Jack Hockett
  • Washington County, VA Death Records Courtesy of Jack Hockett
  • An Economic and Social Survey of Washington County by Ben Bane Dulaney
  • Washington County Post No. 12 - American Legion
  • James C. Brewer Post No. 15, - American Legion (Bristol, Virginia)
  • Rumley-Thompson Post No. 135 - American Legion (Damascus, Virginia)
  • Iron Mountain Luteran School Announcement - 1930
  • Virginia men killed in action or missing in action during the Korean Conflict
  • Virginia Killed and Missing in Action from the Vietnam War
  • York Lodge No. 12 AF&AM, 1933
  • List of Masonic Lodges in Virginia - 1933
  • Washington County, Virginia World War II Military Deaths
  • Miscellaneous Death Records from the Blevins Funeral Home, Bristol, Virginia by George Thomas
  • Death notices in the Bristol Herald Courier for 1957 from Kim AllisonNew
  • Publications of the Historical Society of Southwest Virginia
• Agriculture
  • Virginia Cooperative Extension Service - Southwest Virginia Office
  • Hayter Soil Series
  • Washington County 4-H
• Arts
  • William King Regional Arts Center
  • Barter Theatre
  • Virginia Highlands Arts Festival
  • Art Depot
• Biography
  • Political Graveyard, Washington County, Virginia
  • Joseph Crockett Shaffer
  • Frederick C. Boucher
  • John Alexander Buchanan
  • Samuel Taylor Copenhaver
  • John Buchanan Floyd
  • John Hall Fulton
  • James King Gibson
  • Arthur M. Hess
  • George Washington Hopkins
  • John Warfield Johnston
  • Joseph Eggleston Johnston
  • William Edmondson "Grumble" Jones
  • William McMillan
  • Martin Andrew Morrison
  • John Singleton Mosby
  • Granville Henderson Oury
  • Whitfield Monroe Parker and the Civil War Courtesy of Larry Cockerham
  • Paul B. Senter
  • Solomon P. Sharpe
  • Charles Lacy South
  • Connally Finley Trigg
• Books
  • Regional E-Books, Journal Articles, and Booksellers
  • Hunt-Hockett Books
  • Remembering the Virginia-Carolina Railroad "The Virginia Creeper"
• Business Links
  • Abingdon Visitors and Convention Bureau
  • Abingdon Business Directory
  • Virginia Blue Ridge Tourism
• Cemeteries
  • Azen Baptist Church Cemetery Survey by Dave Reedy - Photos by Mary Jane Burn - New!
  • Clear Branch Cemetery, Washington County submitted by Connie Knipp
  • John D. Dunn Family Cemetery, Taylor's Valley
  • East Hill Cemetery, Bristol submitted by Connie Knipp
  • Fleenor Cemetery, Washington County, Virginia submitted by Ronald Mike Osborne
  • Green Cove Cemetery by Dave Reedy New
  • Jackson Cemetery, Wallace, Virginia submitted by Connie Knipp
  • Johnson (William) Cemetery Saltville by Jeff Weaver
    
  • Konnarock Cemetery by Jeff Weaver and Dave Reedy
    
  • Maple Grove Cemetery submitted by Connie Knipp
  • Mountain View Methodist Church Cemetery Link to file on the Johnson County, TN Cuzins site.
  • Pine Hill Cemetery submitted by Connie Knipp
  • Rhudy's Chapel Church Cemetery Link to file on the Johnson County, TN Cuzins site
  • Rush Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Lodi, Washington County, Virginia by Jeff Weaver
  • Sharrett's Cemetery, Elm Street, Bristol, Virginia submitted by Connie Knipp
  • Sugar Grove Cemetery, Benhams, Washington County, Virginia submitted by Connie Knipp
  • Tumbling Creek Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, Poor Valley, Washington County, Virginia by Jeff Weaver
  • Warren Family Cemetery by Barbara Norvell
  • Widener Valley Cemetery Link to file on the Johnson County, TN Cuzins Site
• Churches And Religion
  • Abingdon United Methodist Church
  • Abingdon Virginia Church Directory
  • First Baptist Church of Bristol
  • The Church of the Good Shepherd Anglican Abingdon, Virginia
  • History of the Abingdon Presbytery
  • St. Clair's Bottom Primitive Baptist Association History
  • First Christian Church, Abingdon, Virginia
  • Maple Grove Presbyterian Church
  • Sinking Springs Presbyterian Church
• Education
  • Washington County Public Library
  • Emory and Henry College
  • Virginia Highlands Community College
  • Virginia Intermont College
  • John S. Battle High School
  • Wallace Middle School
  • Bristol, Virginia Public Schools
  • One Room School Houses in Southwest Virginia
  • Damascus Middle School
  • Glade Spring Middle School
  • Patrick Henry High School
  • Washington County Schools
• Environment
  • Washington County Natural Resources
• Genealogy
  • Smyth and Washington County Families
  • Preston Family
  • Washington County, VA GenWeb
  • Holston Territory Genealogical Society
  • Potter Famlies of Washington and Scott County, Virginia
  • Hatfield Family Origins
  • Miscellaneous Death Records from Smyth and Russell County, Viriaia
  • More Death Records from Southwest Virginia Courtesy of Jack Hockett
  • Caywood Family Records from Jack Hockett
  • More Cawood Family Records from Jack Hockett
  • Pioneer Families of Washington County, Virginia by Diana Powell New
  • Miscellaneous Genealogical items from the Saltville Progress from Jack Hockett
  • Mercer County, WV Death Records for people born in Smyth and Washington County, Virginia from Jack Hockett
  • Miscellaneous Notes on Washington County, VA people From Jack Hockett
• Geography and Geology
  • Washington County Place Names
  • City of Bristol Place Names
  • Southwest Virginia Geography
• Government
  • Welcome to Washington County
  • Washington County Home Page
  • The City of Bristol Home Page
  • Bristol Tennessee and Virginia
• Medicine
  • Bristol, Virginia Medical Profile
  • Washington County, Virginia Medical Profile
• Miscellaneous Links
  • The Black History Center of Southwest Virginia

    The following files were contributed by Connie Knipp

  • Will of Joseph Whittaker of Montgomery County, Virginia
  • Notes on James Whittaker
  • Will of Thomas Goodson
  • Will of Michael Brown
  • Will of John Michael Braun/Brown
  • Obituary of S. R. Whittaker
  • Will of R. B. Whittaker
  • Notes on John Goodson
  • Deed from Joseph Perrigan to William Canter, 1862, Washington County, Virginia
  • Will of Joseph E. Canter, 1919, Washington Co., Va
  • The Parragin Story
  • Extracts from the Diary of Josephus Newton Davis 1840-1857
  • Josephus Newton Davis Diary (complete) 1840- 1870
  • "Help me Outta Here"
• Newspapers
  • The Bristol Herald Courier
• Parks
  • Virginia Creeper Trail
  • Virginia Creeper Trail Club
• Photographs
  • Hundreds of Regional Photographs
  • Panoramic View of Abingdon, Virginia, ca. 1910
• Towns & Communities
  • Abingdon, Virginia Tourism Page
  • The City of Bristol Home Page
  • Bristol Tennessee and Virginia
  • Access Damascus
  • Bristol Electronic Community

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Last update February 12, 2006

This site was established on January 1, 1998.

©, 1998-2006 Jeffrey C. Weaver, Saltville, Virginia.
New River Notes Logo by Pam Cresswell; New River Map by Bill Payne; Flower Images courtesy of the Santalady and other Information by many Contributors