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Southern Appalachian Collection
"With the aid of an ESEA Title II grant, Mrs. Elaine Duty, librarian at the John S. Battle High School in Washington County, Virginia created a…
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Appalachian Collection/ Southern Appalachia Collection
Bibliography of holdings at the Washington County Public Library in the following areas: Appalachian Poetry Literature, both fiction and poetry;…
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White Top Folk Festival 1931-1939
The White Top Folk Festival grew out of a suggestion made to Abingdon attorney John Blakemore that a fiddler’s contest...
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Caboose
"Located one block south of West Main Street in the Washington County town of Abingdon, the Depot Square Historic District began taking shape around…
Summers Law Office
"Memorial to Lewis Preston Summers, Lawyer, Historian
Andrew Rowan Summers, Lawyer, Arttist, Musician
Presented to the Historical Society of…