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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.

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

PDF of article from previous 125th Anniversary website

List of marriages in 1893 by Rosanna Croy Dawson.

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

List of people who moved and where they moved to.

Records of what Dawson preserved in 1898 and when.

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

Records of household quantities of flour and cornmeal.

Records of household quantities of lamp oil.

List of deaths in 1893.

List of births in 1898.

List of deaths in 1898.

List of marriages in 1898.

Records of events at the church in 1898.

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

Dawson on Tilda Gray in her 1890 diary.

Records of butter in the household in 1898.

Records from 1898 of shopping and household visits.

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

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

Record of gifts received in 1898.

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

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

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

PDF of article from previous 125th Anniversary website

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

Article about archaeological history in Blacksburg, VA.

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

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

VPI campus as of 1891.

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

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

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

The first volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years after they…

The fourth and final volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be inThe Bugleyearbook. For several years…

The second volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after…

The third volume of the Tin Horn, the yearbook for and by the female students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Early women students at Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) were not allowed to be in The Bugle yearbook. For several years after…

Bulletin, Vol. XIV, No. 3. Annual 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…

Second Session, 1873-74. Annual 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.

Second Session, 1873-74. Annual 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.

Third Session, 1874-75. Annual 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.

Fourth Session, 1875-76.Annual 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.

Fifth Session, 1876-77. Annual 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.

Sixth Session, 1877-78. Annual 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.

Seventh Session, 1878-79. Annual 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.