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A Strange Land And A Peculiar Problem: Using Local Knowledge To Resolve Ambiguous Property Descriptions In Appalachia, William L. Spotswood

William & Mary Law Review Online

Conveying property in Appalachia can be somewhat like a box of chocolates: “You never know what you’re gonna get.” Carved by ancient rivers and winding streams, the seemingly never-ending “hollers” and hills of Appalachia can disorient even the best navigator. Couple the region’s rugged topography with an already ambiguous demarcation system, and properties once mapped by metes and bounds descriptions become impossible to re-create with any sort of certainty. Thus, though rooted in a desire for clarity, the combination of mountainous terrain and imperfect demarcation results in a property system riddled with ambiguity. Due to this inherent definitional problem in …

A Virginia Mountain City Responds To The Challenge Of Improving Health Outcomes, Robert S. Cowell Jr.

Journal of Appalachian Health

In 2012, Roanoke Virginia was becoming a city of haves and have-nots, a place where many were benefitting from revitalization underway but too many were seeing their situation grow worse and becoming even more entrenched. Poverty with levels as high as 50% in some neighborhoods; life expectancy sometimes 14 years shorter than those living just one or two neighborhoods over; and lack of access to fresh food, medical care, and economic opportunities—all within view of the largest hospital in the region was unacceptable.

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The African American Experience In Antebellum Cabell County, Virginia/West Virginia, 1810-1865, Cicero Fain

History Faculty Research

Located on the Ohio River in western Virginia, adjacent to southeastern Ohio and eastern Kentucky, antebellum Cabell County lay at the fulcrum of east and west, north and south, freedom and slavery. Possessed of a bountiful countryside—replete with wildlife, timber, pristine streams and creeks, and rich river-bottom soil along the navigable Ohio and Guyandotte rivers—it held great potential for settlers who sought to put down roots. Drawn by its promising location and cheap, arable land, migrants settled in the county in increasing numbers in the early 1800s, and many settlers took their slaves with them. Yet like most counties on …

Edwin Anderson Alderman (1861-1931), Mark L. Mccallon

Library Research and Publications

Edwin Anderson Alderman was a noted educator, progressive reformer, and president of the University of North Carolina, Tulane University, and the University of Virginia, where he served as the school's first president from 1904 until his death in 1931. He brought to the University of Virginia a zeal for progressive reform, having campaigned in North Carolina and Louisiana for increased spending on public education and the creation of teacher-training schools, especially for women. In Charlottesville, Alderman established the Curry Memorial School of Education in 1905 and reorganized the university to emphasize efficiency and promote professional and technical instruction. The number …

0192: Mason-Jackson County Census And Marriage Records, 1806-1906, Marshall University Special Collections

Guides to Manuscript Collections

This collection is composed of abstracts of county records, including marriage and census records from Jackson and Mason Counties in what was once Virginia and is now West Virginia. The Mason County marriages book also contains lists of undertakers and doctors in the county until 1906.

Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated, Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated mine with a value of 50¢.

Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated, Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated mine with a value of 50¢.

Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated, Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated mine with a value of 10¢.

Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated, Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Gibson Fuel Company, Incorporated mine with a value of 25¢.

Norton Coal Company, Norton Coal Company

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Norton Coal Company mine with a value of $1.

Men And Religion To-Day And Fifty Years Ago, Wiley Winton Smith

Smith, Wiley Winton, 1855-?

This book contains 10 of Smith’s sermons, along with “A Sketch of Towns” where he conducted revival services and statements from pastors familiar with his preaching.

Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation, Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation

Arthur Kilgore Mine Scrip Collection

This scrip is from the Jewell Ridge Coal Corporation mine with a value of 25¢.

Lee The Christian Hero: A Sermon Delivered In The Lee Memorial Church, Lexington, Virginia, Sunday, January 20, 1907, On The Invitation Of The Rector And Vestry, Randolph Harrison Mckim

McKim, Randolph Harrison, 1842-1920

McKim preached this sermon to commemorate the centennial of Robert E. Lee, in a church that was named in his honor (in 2017, the name was changed from R.E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church to Grace Episcopal Church. His topic is evident from the title; as he says on page 5, Lee “has a place of right in that noble army of the soldiers of Jesus Christ, who have done heroic service for God and for man in their lives.”

Sin And Its Wages, John Sharshall Grasty

Grasty, John Sharshall, 1825-1883

This sermon was preached while Grasty was serving as pastor of the Fincastle Presbyterian Church in Botetourt County, Virginia.

Noble Testimony, John Sharshall Grasty

Grasty, John Sharshall, 1825-1883

This sermon, on Mark 14:3-8, was preached while Grasty was serving as pastor of the Fincastle Presbyterian Church in Botetourt County, Virginia.

Address To The People Of West Virginia: Shewing That Slavery Is Injurious To The Public Welfare, And That It May Be Gradually Abolished Without Detriment To The Rights And Interests Of Slave Holders / By A Slaveholder Of West Virginia, Henry Ruffner

Ruffner, Henry, 1790-1861

In 1847, Ruffner delivered an anti-slavery address before the Franklin Society at Washington College; he was the school’s president at the time. It was revised for publication later that year, having been “enriched and strengthened” by the “impressive views” of others; in 1933, it was reprinted by The Green Bookman in Bridgewater, Virginia.