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401 historic homes and related subjects in twenty-seven different counties of Virginia and West Virginia are presented. They are illustrated with 540 pictures from photographs and drawings. The narrative in eac case accompanies the illustrative pictures is printed on the same page or on a facing page.
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What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, "Justice John" Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field-workers of the Virginia Writers' Project of the WPA. For decades following the end of yhe project, these stories lay untouched in the libraries of the University of Virginia. Now, folklorist Thomas...
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The Virginia Museum has entered a new field of museum curatorship with this authoritative guide to Virginia's extraordinarily rich architectural heritage. With the aid and advice of some of America's most distinguished architectural historians, the Museum has conducted fresh research and secured new photographs of 223 buildings and sites in the Old Dominion, each chosen carefully for its architectural significance rather than mere historical association....
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In his clear, eminently readable style, Williams organizes the tangled strands of West Virginia's past around a few dramatic events : the battle of Point Pleasant, John Brown's insurrection in Harper's Ferry, the Paint Creek labor movement, the Hawk's Nest and Buffalo Creek disasters, and more. Williams uses these pivotal events as introductions to the larger issues of statehood, Civil War, unionism, and industrialization. Along the way, Williams...
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"The culmination of a ten-year project undertaken by the West Virginia Heritage Quilt Search, this illustrated volume presents samples of more than four thousand quilts made before 1940. Among the highlights of the search are the discoveries of hand-stitched textiles largely unknown to the general public." "West Virginia Quilts and Quiltmakers is a tribute to quiltmakers in every era, but especially to the women of West Virginia's past, who communicated...
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From the middle of the sixteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, the Old Dominion was dominated by the lives and legends of a dozen great men: John Smith, William Berkeley, William Byrd, George Mason, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Randolph, Robert E. Lee, Thomas Martin, Thomas Nelson Page, James Branch Cabell, and George Marshall.
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