William (Jack) Davis, EditorHistory, Virginia Tech (retired) and Smithfield- Preston | Clara Cox, Assistant Editor |Charles Taylor Political Science, Virginia Tech | Sherry Wyatt Montgomery Museum | Dan Thorp History, Virginia Tech and Smithfield-Preston | Marc Brodsky Archives, Virginia Tech | Sharon Watkins History, Virginia Tech (retired) | Hugh Campbell, Founding Editor Mathematics, Virginia Tech (retired) and Smithfield-Preston (emeritus) | Ryan Spencer, ex officio Smithfield-Preston
Volume 20 (2016)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- Olin and Preston Institute and Preston and Olin Institute: The Early Years of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Part II
- Change Amidst Tradition: The First Two Years of the Burruss Administration at VPI
- Thomas Nelson Conrad: Educator, Editor, Preacher, Spy
- Adam Harman, the New River, and Tom’s Creek: An Analysis of the Earliest Documentary Records
- Letitia Preston Floyd: Supplementary Notes
- Jim Glanville and Ryan S. Mays
- Letitia Preston Floyd’s “My Dear Rush” Letter
- Jim Glanville and Ryan S. Mays
- Index to Volumes 11 - 20Rachael Garrity
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Volume 5 (2001)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- The First Linkous in Virginia: German Soldiers in the Revolution
- A ‘Sorrowful Cavalcade’: Enslaved Migration through Appalachian Virginia
- Malissia of Tom’s Creek and Brush Mountain
- Triumph and Tragedy: A Railroad Struggle Instrumental in Creating Roanoke, Virginia
- Book Reviews
- Index
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Volume 12 (2008)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- William Preston, Revolutionary (1779 - 1780)
- From a Bishop and a Patriot to a Bishop and a Saint: Rival Understandings of the Naming of Emory and Henry College
- Rock Spring Plantation: Incubator of Two American Industries
- Brief Notes: Indian Slavery and Freedom Suits: The Cases of Rachel Viney and Rachel Findlay
- Architectural Fashion and the Changing Faces of Yellow Sulphur Springs
- Comments About Andrew Creswell’s Kings Mountain Letter
- Index to Volume XII
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Volume 6 (2002)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- Batteaux on Virginia’s Rivers
- William Fleming, Patriot
- On a Shallow Foundation of Freedom: Building the Campus of the Christiansburg Institute
- Smithfield Plantation: The Original Land Parcels
- Sarah Beth Keough and Blaine Adams
- The Diaries of James Armistead Otey
- Book Reviews
- Index
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Volume 22 (2018)
Contents
- A Message to the Editor
- Southwest Virginians and the “War to End Wars”
- “Living in a New World”: World War One and the Decline of Military Tradition at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1916 - 1923
- Sketch of the Life of Dr. Harvey Black
- John S. Apperson (transcribed by Clara B. Cox)
- Alexander Black and His World, 1857-1935: Part II: Alexander Black and the Bank of Blacksburg, 1877 - 1935
- Document: A Letter from Janie Preston Boulware Lamb
- Index to Volume 22
- Clara B. Cox and Sharon B. Watkins
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Current Smithfield Review Board of Editors
Volume 24 (2020)
Contents
- Messages from Our Publishers
- Ryan Spencer and Brett L. Shadle
- A Message from the Editors
- Crossing into War: Hostages in the Civil War Virginia and West Virginia
- The Life and Times of William Addison Caldwell: Virginia Tech’s First Student
- Book Review: The Blacksburg Drama: A history of Blacksburg in three acts
- To “whiten” the Mountains: Abolishing Slavery in West(ern) Virginia 1861 - 1863
- Document: Thomas Jefferson Letter and Transcription
- Index to Volume 24
- Sharon B. Watkins and Clara B. Cox
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Volume 23 (2019)
Contents
- A Message from the Editor
- “The original purchase was blood, and mine shall seal the surrender”: The Importance of Place in Botetourt County’s Resolutions, 1775
- The War in Words: Union and Confederate Civil War Military Camp Newspapers in Western Virginia
- Life on Poorhouse Knob: Poor-relief in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1830 - 1860
- A Summary of Nineteenth-Century Smithfield, Part 2: The Early War Years, 1861 - 1862
- Book Review: Facing Freedom Examines Lives of Post-Civil War African Americans in Montgomery County, Virginia
- University of Virginia Press
- Index to Volume 23
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Volume 21 (2017)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- A Tribute to Hugh Campbell
- New Maritime Records of James Patton
- Alexander Black and His World, 1857-1935: Part I: 1857-1877
- True Friends of the Confederacy
- “The Nigh and Best Way”: The Early Development of Roads in Montgomery County
- Jim Page and Sherry Joines Wyatt
- Catawba Sanatorium: Its Founding and Early History
- Brief Note: Possible Scottish Baptism Records of James Patton’s Children
- Index to Volume 21
- Sharon B. Watkins and Clara B. Cox
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Volume 3 (1999)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors,Thomas Winton Fisher, Confederate Soldier ad 19th Century Pilgrim from Wythe County Virginia: Part 1
- James Patton Preston’s Wayward Son: Letters from the Smithfield-Preston Foundation Collection at Virginia Tech
- Bottom Creek: From Community to Conservancy
- William P. Hickman in the New River Valley, 1852-64
- Book Reviews
- Index to Volumes I - IIIMary C. Holliman and Diana Kittleman
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Volume 1 (1997)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors, Recollections of 18th Century Virginia Frontier Life
- Letitia Preston Floyd, Introduction by Wirt H. Wills
- Newport, Virginia - A Crossroads Village
- Douglas D. and Perry D. Martin
- Our Native Stone: Architecture and Identity at Virginia Polytechnic and State Institute, 1872 - 1922
- The Coal Mining Way of Life in Virginia’s New River Valley: Hard Work, Family and Community
- William Ballard Preston and the Politics of Slavery 1832 - 1862
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Volume 17 (2013)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- A Future French King Visits the Overhill Cherokee in 1797
- The Early Bingamans in the New River Area
- William Preston and the Surveyor and the Great Virginia Land Grab
- “Learn your wives and daughters how to use the gun and pistol”, The Succession Crisis in Montgomery County, Virginia
- Brief Note: From Thoreau to Confucius, via Abingdon, Virginia
- Book Review: Skirmish at Pearisburg
- Index to Volume 17
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Volume 14 (2010)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- Early Presbyterians in Montgomery County
- The Forgotten Fencible
- Mother Dearly Loved Flowers: The Beale Memorial Garden at Hollins University
- Fort Chiswell and Chiswell’s Lead Mines of Wythe County, Virginia: A New Perspective
- The Fincastle Resolutions
- Book Review
- Index to Volume XIV Mary Holliman
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Volume 2 (1998)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors, A Story of Continuity and Change, Blacksburg, Virginia 1798 - 1998
- Ties to External Markets: Imports and Exports in the New River Valley, 1745-1789
- John Floyd, Kentucky Hero, and Three Generations of Floyds and Prestons of Virginia
- Letitia Preston Floyd, Introduction by Wirt H. Wills
- A Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections of the Preston Family
- The Giles County Earthquake of 1897 - Virginia’s Largest Temblor
- Mineral Fights - Civil War Battles for Southwestern Virginia’s Lead and Salt
- Desertion and Unionism in Floyd County, Virginia, 1861 - 1865
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Volume 11 (2007)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- The Indian Captivity Narrative of Charles Johnston
- To Refrain from Drinking Ardent Spirits: The Bet between Peter Byrns and Francis Preston
- Hubert Gilliam and Jim Glanville
- “To Counterfeit the Soul”: Portraiture at Historic Smithfield
- An Ordinary Woman: Sarah A. Geer McIntyre of Saltville, Virginia
- Progress at Gunpoint: Struggle in the Coal Fields of Southern West Virginia, 1890 - 1920
- Brief Note: How the Mastodon Got Its Name: The Southwest Virginia Connection
- Book Review: The Planting of New Virginia: Settlement and Landscape in the Shenandoah Valley
- Index to Volume XI
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Volume 7 (2003)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- What Really Happened at Drapers Meadows? The Evolution of a Frontier Legend
- The Owners of the Historic Smithfield Manor House
- The Strange Campbell/Shelby Controversy and the Role of John Broady at the Battle of Kings Mountain
- Mason G. Robertson and June N. Stubbs
- The Preston Cemetery of Historic Smithfield Plantation
- The Diaries of James Armistead Otey: 1909 -
- Book Reviews
- Index
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Volume 16 (2012)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- A Future French King Visits the Virginia Backcountry in 1797
- A Floyd County Family in Wartime
- Edited by James Robertson
- The Phoenix Privateering Syndicate and Marine Captain John Floyd
- David L. Mordy and James C. Mordy
- Spring’s Green Peas, Nocturnal Thieves and Other Family Lore about Susanna Smith Preston
- Southwest Virginia: A Thoroughfare of Nation-Building
- Index to Volume 16
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Volume 4 (2000)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- Reconfiguring Virginia
- Hickmans and Servants: Two Appalachian Families
- The Grinch That Stole Southern History: Anthem for an Appalachian Perspective
- Part II: Thomas Winton Fisher, Confederate Soldier and 19th Century Pilgrim
- Prehistoric Southwest Virginia: Aboriginal Occupation, Land Use and Environmental Worldview
- Book Review
- A Letter to the Editor
- Index
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Volume 13 (2009)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- Adam Hartman, German Pioneer on the New River
- The Central Role of William Preston and Other Smithfield Region Leaders in The Opening Up of Kentucky
- William Preston, Revolutionary, 1781
- The Diaries of Rosanna Croy Dawson
- Aspenvale Cemetery and Its Place in the History of Southwest Virginia
- Book Review
- Index to Volume XIII
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Volume 9 (2005)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors,
- John Preston Sheffey and the Civil War in Southwestern Virginia
- “Thou art the Potter” - A History of Bodell Pottery
- The Devil, the Weaver’s Bonny, and Alfreda Peel: Exploring the Roots of an Ancient Virginia Folk Ballad
- Old Deeds Tell A New Story
- Improper Archaeology, “Fabulous Saltville”, and the Ancient History of Southwest Virginia
- Book Review
- Index
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Volume 10 (2006)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- An Unexpected Enemy and the Turn of the Tide: Andrew Creswell’s King’s Mountain Letter
- Hubert Gilliam and Jim Glanville
- The Phoenix Caper - A Frontiersman Goes to Sea
- Montgomery County in August 1862: A Showalter Observation
- The Blade from Glade
- Growth and Independence of Methodist Congregations in Blacksburg, Virginia
- Book Review
- Index to the first ten volumes
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Volume 19 (2015)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- The Draper’s Meadows Settlement (1746-1756) Part II
- Peter Harrison Whisner, D.D.
- The Early Years of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University: Part 1
- A Sketch of Letitia Preston Floyd and Some of Her Letters
- Jim Glanville and Ryan S. Mays
- Governor John Floyd, Letitia Preston Floyd, and the Catholic Church
- Letitia Preston Floyd: Pioneer Catholic Feminist
- Brief Note: Sugar Maples and Maple Sugar at Historic Smithfield
- Index to Volume 19
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Volume 18 (2014)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- Political Passions in the Backcountry of Tennessee and Kentucky in 1797
- The Draper’s Meadows Settlement (1746-1756) Part I: George Draper and Family
- The William Preston / George Washington Letters
- Jim Glanville and Ryan S. Mays
- A Summary of the 19th-Century Smithfield Part 1: The Years Before the Civil War
- Conquistadors at Saltville in 1567 Revisited
- Index to Volume 18
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Volume 8 (2004)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- Civil War Letters to Blacksburg: The Correspondence of Pvt. Theophilius Raney
- Edited by James I Robertston, Jr.
- The Genesis and Dissolution of William Preston’s Smithfield
- “Fork Me Out the Dimes”: Newspaper Carriers’ Addresses of Salem, Virginia, 1854-1904
- Portrait of a Survivor: The Long and Eventful Life of Mary Draper Ingles
- Conquistadors at Saltville in 1567? A Review of the Archaeological and Documentary Evidence
- Index
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Volume 15 (2011)
Contents
- A Note from the Editors
- James Buckingham’s Travels in Southern Appalachia, 1839
- William Radford, Revolutionary Patriot of the Continental Marines
- David L. Mordy and James C. Mordy
- The Mysterious Origins of James Patton, Part 1
- Jim Glanville and Ryan Mays
- Whiskey, Soldiers and Voting: Western Virginia Elections in the 1790s
- Brief Note: A Letter to the Editor of Smithfield Review Concerning William Preston and Greenfield
- Brief Note: The Siting of Smithfield in Relation to the Fincastle Botetourt County Line
- Index to Volume XV
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