Browse Items (21 total)

  • Collection: History of New Town

1962aerial_OFHpointer.jpg
Black and white aerial photograph showing the Town of Blacksburg and New Town's location within it. New Town location designated by red arrow.

UpperQuad 1936.jpg
Black and white aerial photograph of Upper Quad.

Vaughn_sale.jpg
House and Lot bill of sale, Vaughn .

BMCFlogo.jpg
Blacksburg Museum and Cultural Foundation Logo.

Vaughn_deed.jpg
Handwritten Vaughn property deed (exact date unknown).

Watson_Deed_cropped.jpg
Handwritten Watson property deed (exact date unknown).

PennStreetChurch1948.jpg
Drawing of Penn Street Church.

ThanksgivingProgram.jpg
Thanksgiving service program of Grand United Order of Odd Fellows (exact date unknown).

railroad_Spec.jpg
Drawn map of Blacksburg Railroad (exact date unknown).

PhillipsMap.jpg
Map of early Blacksburg showing "present location of the negro population" (exact date unknown).

VA-TN_railroad.jpg
Drawn color map of VA/TN railroad lines (exact date unknown).

Bburgc1900.jpg
Drawn map of early Blacksburg (exact date unknown).

PhillipsThesis_SchoolfromSW.jpg
Photograph of "Negro school house" building (ca. 1948) in Blacksburg. From "A Negro Neighborhood for Blacksburg, Virginia," by Martha Shupp Phillilps. Master's Thesis in Architecture (1948),

AlexanderBlackHouse.jpg
Black and white photograph of Alexander Black House.

2008.02.003.jpg
Ginger Wagner and unnamed individual sitting on porch of a New Town house (exact date unknown).

2008.02.019.jpg
Laura Lee Anderson and unnamed individual (exact date unknown).

2008.02.008.jpg
New Town House (exact date unknown).

2008.02.015.jpg
New Town House 2 (exact date unknown).

2008.02.007.jpg
New Town house with white car under carport (exact date unknown).

st_johns.jpg
St Johns Day: St Paul A.M.E. Church, Blacksburg, VA (exact date unknown).
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