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Aerial view of Foxridge apartment complex in Blacksburg from the 1970s.

Old Miles Stadium in Blacksburg, VA, photographed from the water tower.

An aerial view of Blacksburg, VA.

Main Street Blacksburg, VA, with labels for important buildings.

Main Street Blacksburg, VA, as seen from the tower of the Old Preston Olin Building.

VPI campus as of 1891.

Record of gifts received in 1898.

Record of small events in the life of Rosanna Croy Dawson in 1898.

Record of the building of the Alex Black House in Blacksburg, VA.

Records from 1898 of shopping and household visits.

Records of butter in the household in 1898.

Dawson on Tilda Gray in her 1890 diary.

Records of the work Will Washington did for the Croy Dawson family in 1898.

Records of events at the church in 1898.

List of marriages in 1898.

List of deaths in 1898.

List of births in 1898.

List of deaths in 1893.

Records of household quantities of lamp oil.

Records of household quantities of flour and cornmeal.

Records of planting and other work done in the family garden in 1898.

Records of what Dawson preserved in 1898 and when.

List of people who moved and where they moved to.

List of accidents and odd occurences by Rosanna Croy Dawson, from her diary, "Blacksburg in 1898."

List of marriages in 1893 by Rosanna Croy Dawson.

A description of the original laying out of the town, by Daniel Pezzoni in March, 1984.

Blacksburg, VA, history from 1748 to 1900 by D. McCombs in 1981.

Water usage, retail sales, real estate assessments, and town budgets from 1961-1966 in Blacksburg, VA.

A recollection of the town and its history by R.D. Michael.

A compilation of various facts and bits of information about the town by Leland B. Tate.

Excerpts from the 1935 article by William Edward Garnett, rural sociologist.

A history of Blacksburg, VA, by Mrs. S. A. Wingard ranging from the pioneer days to the first Western Union office in 1916.

Ralph M. Brown's extracts from the V.P.I. Historical Index, 1872-1938.

Article from the Virginia Tech Engineer by Howard Shaeffer Avery, VPI class of 1928.

List of Mayors who have served the Town of Blacksburg from 1871 to the present.

A short newspaper article describing the origins of Blacksburg's name.

Jamie Kinzer Calloway, Mary Mathews Robeson, and French Pack, Jr. discuss their memories of Blacksburg.

Genealogy information about the family of Roseanna Croy Dawson.

Introduction to the diaries of Roseanna Croy Dawson.

Keith Furr recalls life in Blacksburg during the 1960s in an email to Laura Katz Smith in 1996.

A lengthy recollection of his father's Blacksburg from the 1920s to the 1940s by Dr. Ronald B. Dietrick.

Article about archaeological history in Blacksburg, VA.

Postcard of Blacksburg, VA, circa 1910. Possibly depicting Alumni Gates.

Bulletin, Vol. XXXIV, No. 10. Graduate course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the…

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Bulletin, Vol. XXX, No. 7A (Supplement). Graduate course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of…

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Bulletin, Vol. XXIII, No. 9. Graduate course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the…

Graduate course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the institution.

Graduate course catalog of Virginia Polytechnic University: including campus maps; facility descriptions; lists of courses, schedules, students, and faculty; and other information relating to the operations of the institution.