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- Founding of Lindsey Wilson College
- Lindsey Wilson College
- Lindsey Wilson College
- Indian Tribes That Hunted In and Claimed Parts of West Virginia
- Indians of North America
- Brief overview of Native American tribes that resided in West Virginia. Huron -- Mohawk -- Mingoes -- Delaware --Cherokee -- Shawnee -- Tuscaroras.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Investigating Conditions
- Missions
- Describes the author's travels in Western North Carolina, on behalf of the Asheville Presbytery, for the purpose of investigating living conditions.
- Lees-McRae College
- Native Mountaineers
- Indians of North America
- The author's description of a visit to the Cherokee Indians of Graham, Jackson, Swain, and Cherokee Counties of Western North Carolina.
- Lees-McRae College
- Virginia 1911
- Graduation ceremonies; Dormitories; Universities & colleges; Students;
- Photograph of Virginia Hall taken on Commencement day, 1911. The image was taken by a member of the Gray Family, Rev. Dr. Charles Oliver Gray was president of Tusculum from 1908 - 1932.
- Tusculum College
- The Old Regular Baptist
- Religion; Religious events; newspapers
- This is a newspaper printed by the Old Regular Baptists at Millstone, Kentucky. This is volume 2, whole number 20, number 8, and was printed in September 1925. It has letters, editorial, and obituaries.
- University of Pikeville
- Early Mountain Schools
- Schools
- Roan Mountain resident's description of the first schools in the area.
- Lees-McRae College
- History of Talbott Community (Barbour County, W. Va.)
- Early history of a West Virginia community. Content appears to have been written in early 20th century.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- History of Indian Camp Community (Upshur County, W. Va.)
- Early history of a West Virginia community. Content appears to have been written in early 20th century.
- West Virginia Wesleyan College
- Ex-slave, 87, dies at home here
- Scrapbooks; Civil War; Tennessee Wesleyan College
- In a scrapbook, this newspaper clipping dated April 12, 1940 is the obituary notice for Jane Spriggs of Athens, Tenn. She is described as having been 8 or 10 years old when slaves gained their freedom at the close of the Civil War. She was the...
- Tennessee Wesleyan College
- Hatcher Hotel 20/20
- hotels; sayings; rural areas
- Mr. Hatcher spent time writing sayings and stories about local history and folk lore on the walls of his hotel. The Hatcher Hotel was located on Main St. in Pikeville, KY.
- University of Pikeville
- Minutes of the Twenty-Second Annual Session of the Mud River Primitive Baptist Association
- Religion; Religious events
- This is a copy of the original Minutes of the Twenty-Second Annual Session of the Mud River Primitive Baptist Association, held with the Mount Zion Church, Logan County, W. Va., on September 1, 2, and 3, 1911. Includes meeting minutes, obituaries,...
- University of Pikeville
- Byard Ray Festival Association photographs
- Asheville, North Carolina; Songs & music; ; Festivals; Asheville, North Carolina
- The Byard Ray Festival Association was established by Betty Sue Johnson who produced the festival for ten of its eleven years. She was a nurse practitioner, educator, and administrator at Duke University Medical Center and the University of North...
- Mars Hill College
- [Home of Andrew Johnson] / [photographed by R. Gerald McMurtry].
- Johnson, Andrew -- 1808-1875.
- This photograph shows the home of ex-President Andrew Johnson in Greeneville, Tennessee, which he purchased in 1851; it is located in the region of upper East Tennessee. The statesman was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in the year 1808, the son...
- Lincoln Memorial University
- I want to be somebody / [unknown]. In Mountain herald / Lincoln Memorial University.
- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Education.; Lincoln Memorial University (Harrogate, Tenn.); Mountain people -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Education.
- An article from the "Mountain Herald," about a young mountaineer who walked forty miles to Lincoln Memorial University from his home "in a county that cannot boast of a railroad." He was eleven when he attended his first...
- Lincoln Memorial University
- Women of the Mountains
- Education
- Text of a brochure written by Rev. Edgar Tufts, Principle of the Girls Department of Lees-McRae Institute, Banner Elk, North Carolina, describing the plight of young women in the mountains of Western North Carolina and requesting scholarship...
- Lees-McRae College
- Daughter of Slaves
- Afro-Americans
- Roan Mountain resident's recollections of "Aunt Cindy" Griffeth, a beloved Yancey County resident who was the daughter of slaves.
- Lees-McRae College
- Story of a Cherokee Family
- Indians of North America
- The author's retelling of a story passed down to him, dealing with the fate of a Cherokee Indian family and the subsequent desecration of their graves by U.S. soldiers.
- Lees-McRae College
- changes in Galax in 20 years (talking)
- Fiddle music;
- Kyle Creed, Whit Sizemore, and others talk with Kip Lornell about the differences in the Galax Fiddlers's Convention in the past twenty years. Kyle plays and makes banjos. Whit fiddled for the Shady Mountain Ramblers. This interview takes place...
- Ferrum College
- Down Through the Years
- Gospel Music; Afro-Americans; Music--West Virginia; Folk Songs--West Virginia; Down Through the Years;
- Gospel song sung by Ed Cabbell of Monongalia County, West Virginia at the Berea College Celebration of Traditional Music 5-14-200.
- Berea College