Assumedly taken during Electrical Light Display.]]>
The early scrapbooks were compiled by Maggie Jane Dull Crute (1868-1950), wife of Samuel L. Crute (1839-193), a Confederate veteran and active leader in the William Watts Camp of Confederate Veterans. Mrs. Crute was very active in the UDC and also served on the state pension board for veterans and widows. These albums largely consist of newspaper articles related to Confederate veterans’ issues, including many obituaries and biographies, as well as the activities of the UDC and items related to Civil War history. There are a few photographs in the albums, but individuals are generally unidentified.

The collection also includes the minute book of the William Watts Camp of Confederate Veterans from its founding in 1891 through 1912. In addition, the collection includes over two hundred Certificates of Eligibility for the Southern Cross of Honor, a medal awarded by the UDC to living veterans.

Materials from binders that could be easily disassembled were placed in file folders. In the case of “magnetic” photo albums, digital images were made of pages prior to disassembly. Most scrapbooks consist of acidic paper and largely contain newspaper articles. Each scrapbook was digitized. The method of attachment of items varied; in later books photographs could be and were removed, but in earlier scrapbooks removal of items would have caused irreparable damage. Scrapbooks have been preserved, but researchers should primarily consult the digital files.
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Volume 1, Number 1]]> Treasure Trove
Some Phases of the Civil War in the Roanoke Area
The Case of the Warrantless Prisoners
Two Ladies of the Museum
Newspaper Days, 1790
The Borden Patent]]> Winter 1964-1965
Volume 1, Number 2]]> Forgotten Graveyards of the Roanoke Valley
Three-Layer Cake of Prehistoric Virginia
Fincastle Springs, Resort of the '80s
Civil War Comes to Buchanan
A Key Which Stayed Home
Buena Vista-Roanoke Plantation
William Fleming's Surgical Instruments
Roanoke's Company 'F'-Alive After 70 Years]]> Summer 1965
Volume 2, Number 1]]> The South Western Turnpike Road
Toll Gates in this Century
Boyhood Collection is Remembrance of Past
Thomas and Tasker Tosh
Lone Oak-1767?-1964
Founding of Patrick County
Peaks of Otter
Beginnings of the Virginia Historical Society
Almanacs, Ration Books, and Rapiers]]> Winter 1965-1966
Volume 2, Number 2]]> John Nolen's Roanoke City Plan of 1907
Southwest Virginia Turnpikes
1753-Saga of Pioneer Pilgrimage Through the Roanoke Region You Could Take a Legal Gamble in 1796
Butler in Richmond
Machine Age 1832
Fort Vause-The Site and the Story
A Day in Richmond]]> Summer 1966
Volume 3, Number 1]]> Shot Tower at Jackson's Ferry
Home Life in Virginia, 1776-1835
Big Lick Home Front, 1816-1865
The Society Circles Franklin County
Mountain Lake; Historic Preservation-A Challenge to Virginians]]> Winter 1967
Volume 3, Number 2]]> Hollins College and the Civil War
Henry Ford and Friends on Tour
Searching for Your Ancestors
Roanoke Valley's Early Iron Mines
Recollections of Bent Mountain]]> Summer 1967
Volume 4, Number 1]]> The Pennsylvania Dutch Culture of the Shenandoah Valley Interstate Interchange Covers Town of Gainsboro
Bell Mont-the Fleming Plantation
Let's All Make Whiskey
Locust Level
Early Lutherans in Western Virginia]]> Winter 1968
Volume 4, Number 2]]> 28th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers, 1861-1865
Roanoke at the Beginning
New River: First of the Western Waters
The Teays: Ancestral River of Mid-America
A New Brick House for $105 and a Horse Critter Walled in by the Appalachians
Cigar Manufacturing in Roanoke and the Wooden Indian]]> Summer 1968
Volume 5, Number 1]]> Montgomery White, 19th Century Social Center
Virginia's Neglected Soldiers
28th Regiment, Virginia Volunteers
Samuel Rader, 1801-1891, Botetourt Brick Mason
History Grows in Botetourt
Pennsylvania Dutch Fashions and Early Roanoke]]> Winter 1969
Volume 5, Number 2]]> Collectors' Items Span Four Centuries
Saving Virginia's Treasures
Edward William Johnston and Roanoke Female Seminary
Is There an Older Roanoker?
Five Rivers Flow West
Longwood was Salem's Castle
Roanoke's Cows in 1898]]> Summer 1969
Volume 6, Number 1]]> Lewis Miller, Folk Artist
Johnny Rebs from Virginia and the Fairer Sex
The Four Anderson Brothers
Roanoke River: Once Called Saponi, Round Oak, Goose Creek
St. Mark's Fincastle Has Roots 200 Years Old
Appalachian Dialect: Vivid, Virile, and Elizabethan
Kefauver's Folly
History is Examined at Natural Bridge
Two Fort Sites Explored]]> Winter 1970
Volume 6, Number 2]]> How the Mother County Began
Fincastle-More Than a County Seat
Early Craftsmen
Mary Johnston, Writer of the Past
Cherry Tree Bottom
Fire Destroys Landmarks
The Turnpike Through Botetourt
Western Inhabitants-An Incumbrance?
The Bells of Fincastle
14 Iron Furnaces of Botetourt
An 18th Century Spinet
The Village of Daleville]]> Summer 1970
Volume 7, Number 1]]> The Great Flood of 1749
Roanoke County in the 1840s
A Misty Tour of Henry
The Town of Newbern
On Campus 70 Years Ago
Woolen Mill, a Major Botetourt Industry
Civil War Draft Problems in the Shenandoah Valley
Hales Ford Classical School
Botetourt's 200th Birthday
Col. William Fleming Recalled
High Bridge Church is 200
James McDowell's Travels in 1828
Alleghany Turnpike, 7 Miles Long
Where We Were in 1806]]> 1971?
Volume 7, Number 2]]> General James Breckinridge, Frontier Man for All Seasons Botetourt's Three Courthouses
A Disastrous Conflagration
Fire Remedy is 1,400 Years Old
Roanoke's 300th Anniversary
Early Lightning Devices
Montgomery Men in Mexico
Reverend Peyton M. Lewis, Slave, Teacher, Preacher
Bedford Saves an Old Church
Floyd County in the 1890s]]> Winter 1972
Volume 8, Number 1]]> The Past is Right Here for the Archaeologist
The 51st Virginia Infantry: Farmers Turned Soldiers
Turner's Creek Valley-the Land that Time Forgot
Log Buildings in the Valley of Virginia
Mary Harvey Trigg, an Unusual Widow
The McDonalds of McDonalds Mill
Long Way Home is Successful
A Visit to Wythe County]]> Summer 1972
Volume 8, Number 2]]> Benjamin Deyerle, Builder of Fine Homes
Roanoke County Barns of the 19th Century
Colonel George Plater Tayloe, a Builder of Hollins College
Where the Brethren Settled
Digging at Looney's Ferry
No. 1 Fire Station is Celebrated
The Remarkable Dr. Reid
The Old Gish Ordinary
Poor, Poor Mountain
Rheumatic Recollections]]> 1973-1974
Volume 9, Number 1]]> Old Barns of Appalachia
Montane Virginia in the Revolution
Roanoke Valley Medicine
Recollections of Ballad Collecting
Ephraim Vause was Robbed
William Preston, Frontier Public Servant
Alexander-Withrow Building
Cherry Tree Bottom, Crossroads of the Centuries
Southview, Age 150, Replaced by Motel
A Tour of the New River Country]]> 1975
Volume 9, Number 2]]> Government by Families in Botetourt County
Indians Retreat from Virginians at Battle of Point Pleasant
The Fincastle Resolutions, Southwest Virginia's Commitment
The Resolutions
Who the 15 Signers Were
Settlement, Defense of the Frontier
A Visit to Patrick County
Bleak Hill, a Handsome Farmhouse
Farm Fruits of the 1800s
Noble Souls of Bleak Hill
Maryland Border War Refugees Flee to the Roanoke Valley]]> 1978
Volume 10, Number 2]]> Seeing Virginia in 1797
The Big Fort
Cures From Mountain Herbs
What They Owned in the 1840s
Lexington Architecture
The Washington Iron Works
The National Register of Historic Places
Bringing an Old Pump to Life]]> 1980
Volume 11, Number 1]]> Clifton A. Woodrum, Congressman with a Flair
Colonel James P. Woods, Lawyer, Congressman
John Hook, New London Merchant
How We Began
Spinning and Weaving in Montgomery County]]> Centennial Issue, 1982
Volume 11, Number 2]]> Roanoke History as Recorded in 1912
Where We Were in 1864
When Knights Were Bold
A Jefferson Street Stroll
Roanoke's First Fire Station
How a Railway Clerk Saw the New Century
Life on Highland Avenue in the Early 1900s
Horace Engle, a Creative Roanoker
Economic Development in Southwest Virginia
The Watts, a Pioneer Family
The Barrens, a Garden Spot
Merchants Organize
How the Star was Turned On
Roanoke's Elected Officials
Acorn to Oak, That's Roanoke]]> 1984
Volume 12, Number 1]]> Farmers Supply Transformed into Center in the Square
Roanoke's First Dairy was on Orange Avenue
Vinton's Beginning
How Dr. Hart Lost His Sight
Dr. William Fleming Made House Calls
Benjamin Keagy's Home
Dr. Landon Cabell Rives, Jr.
The Back Creek Road
Guerrant Family Lived at First Baptist Church Site
Where the Bonsacks Settled]]> 1988
Volume 12, Number 2]]> First County Courthouse Stood from 1841-1909
Fleming Backed Constitutio
Roanoke's First Judges
A Tale of Two Houses
Roanoke Catholic Churches
Letters from School
Salem Mills
A Roanoke Visit in 1762
Roanoke Fast Becoming Known for Its Hayrides and Picnics Roanoke History in 1923]]> 1989
Volume 13, Number 1]]> Roanoke County and the Valley: the Lessons of History
Roanoke County Communities Started Between the Mountains The Early Economy of Roanoke County
Old City Point Railroad was N&W Forerunner in 1838
Overlooked Buildings by the Side of the Road
How Did Colleges Choose Locations in the 19th Century? Roanoke County Schools' Legacy
Farming Was the Backbone of Roanoke Area Growth
Nationality and Religion; How a Religious Lot Began]]> 1996
Volume 13, Number 2]]> Threading a Parkway through the Blue Ridge
Hotel Roanoke, "Large and Well-Equipped"
The Railroad Offices
Totera Town Reconsidered
Colonel William Fleming's Origins
Kentland Farm, a New River Plantation
Architecture of Kentland
Making Pottery in Botetourt County
Cultural Shock in Botetourt County]]> 2001
Volume 14, Number 2]]> Vice Presidential Candidate had Carvins Cove Summer Home Emma Comer, First Graduate of Roanoke City High School, 1894 Celebrating the Millennium, 1901
Mrs. Breckinridge's Brewery
Growing Up and Having Fun in South Roanoke
Peyton Terry, Roanoke's First Millionaire
Where the Toshes Came From
George Washington Slept in Big Lick
First President Honored on 200th Anniversary of His Death
Edgar A. Long Building Recalls Christiansburg Institute's Legacy Peggy Ballard Maupin, 102
Sherwood Anderson Rides Through Southwest Virginia
Big Lick's First Post Office
How Do Our Gardens Grow?
Ships and Shipmates Sails On
50 Star Citizens]]> 2002
Volume 15, Number 1]]> Railroads and Their People
The Virginia & Tennessee Railroad 150 Years Ago
Working with Winston Link at the End of Steam Power
The Turnpikes of Southwest Virginia
The Harris Family Archives
What Do We Leave Behind?
Gwynn's Island Revisited
Who Named Salem?
Oliver Hill's Home May Become Human Rights Center
What Victory May Mean: A History of Horace A. Bass, Jr.]]> 2003
Volume 15, Number 2]]> The Legend of Benjamin Deyerle Revisited
Lest We Forget: A Vinton Landmark
The New River on Mid-Eighteenth Century Maps
The Craft Revival in Appalachia, 1896-1937
And The Mountains Sing with Joy: White Top Music
The Great Natural Bridge Hoax
Murder in Fincastle; Havoc at Hanging Rock
Growing Up with Roanoke: A Lively Adventure
A Horseback Ride on the Back Roads of Roanoke County
African American "Firsts"
Professor C.E. Kregloe's Roanoke Classical School]]> 2004
Volume 16, Number 1
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They Go Quietly: Agricultural Change in Franklin County
My Memories of Carvins Cove: A Long, Peaceful Valley
African Americans Have a Proud Ancestry
Gainsboro and Its Outstanding Black Citizens
Wilderness Road Began in Scott County
DAR Flower Show in Roanoke, 1896
Preston-Brown House: Old House Among Shopping Centers Searching for the ExplorerJohn Peter Saling
Graham's Forge Mill-Architectural Gem
John A. Morehead of Salem
Mr. Jefferson's Neighbors
Did the Buffalo Roam in Southwest Virginia?
Court Day in Salem, Circus Day in Salem
Proclamation: "Salrovin!"]]> 2005
Volume 16, Number 2]]> The Progressive Reform Movement in Roanoke, 1900-1912
The Victoria Courtship of Miss Emma and Mr. Tinsley
Life in 1905
Roanoke Families Built Many Roads from 1950-2005
Bob Childress and His Six Rock Churches
The Early Presbyterians in the Roanoke Valley, 1749-1851
John Henry Pinkard and the African American Banks of Roanoke Civilian Conservation Corps Restored the Jefferson National Forest to Health
A History of Victory Stadium
The Lives of John, William, and John William McCauley
Raymond Loewy's 1949 Train Station
Fear on the Frontier in 18th Century Virginia
How We Were a Century Ago: Roanoke Valley in 1906
Roanoke's Streetcars Operated for 61 Years]]> 2006-2007
Volume 17, Number 1
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Roanoke County and Valley: The Lessons of History
The Past is Right Here for the Archaeologist
The Great Flood
Seeing Virginia in 1797
Roanoke County in the 1840s
How the Mother County Began
Fincastle: More Than a County Seat
Mary Johnston: Writer of the Past
Virginia's Neglected Soldiers
Big Lick Home Front
Peyton Terry: Roanoke's First Millionaire
Early Craftsmen
Old Barns of Appalachia
Roanoke Valley's Early Iron Mines
The Watts: A Pioneer Family/The Barrens: A Garden Spot
Hotel Roanoke: A Large and Well-Equipped Hotel
Vice Presidential Candidate Had a Carvins Cove Summer Home Gilmer Avenue, Northwest
A Jefferson Street Stroll at the Turn of the Century
Henry Ford and Friends on Tour
Threading a Parkway through the Blue Ridge.]]> 2008
Volume 17, Number 2]]> A Personal History of the Hotel Roanoke
Dust-Clad Motorcars Arrive in Roanoke in 1909
Lincoln's Virginia Roots
Colonel J. Sinclair Brown: Hard to Beat
What is it about the Civil War?
Images from the Old Belt
Residential Segregation in the City of Roanoke
The Prestons: A Southwest Virginia Dynasty
Virginians Facing Reality: The 1959 Perrow Commission
A Small Bag of Spices: Farming in Montgomery County
Roanoke Area Family Road Builders, Part II
32 Roanokes Bear the Same Name]]> 2009
Volume 18, Number 1]]> A New Way of Looking at Old Things
The Career of Henry H. Fowler
Col. John Smith: Unsung Hero of Virginia's Colonial Frontier
Old County Courthouse is 100 Years Old
16th Century Spanish Invasions of Southwest Virginia
The Elks National Home
Salem's East Hill North: A Cemetery in the Shadows
Three Other William Flemings
From Indian Slavery to Freedom
Early Bedford Ordinaries
Wearing Hand-Me-Downs in the 1920s]]> 2010
Volume 19, Number 2]]> Defining and Dating Log Buildings in Southwest Virginia
Lewis Miller: Folk Artist and Chronicler of the 19th Century Roanoke's Social Life in 1912: The Diary of Nina Quinn
Blue Ridge Parkway: A Graceful Mountain Drive
A Parkway Picnic Saves a Waterfall
Oliver White Hill: Civil Rights Attorney in Roanoke and Throughout Virginia
Traugott Bromme's 1848 Virginia Travel Guide
Tobacco in Old Virginia Letters
The Great Bedford Fire of 1884
Hokie Stone: Virginia Tech's Spirited Old Rock
Robert McClelland: Mayor of Two Cities
Riding a Bull Across the Roanoke River
Wythe County's Social Disasters: Divorces]]> 2011
Volume 20, Number 1]]> An Interview with Carter Burgess
Where was Totera Town? A Review
S.H. McVitty's Collection of Presidential Signatures
S.H. McVitty: Industrialist, Philanthropist, Collector
The Late, Great Cattle Battle
The Two Michael Kinsers
Goose Creek: A Lasting Resource for Bedford County
Patience, Persistence, and Preservation: The Valley Railroad Bridge Over Gish Branch in Salem
The River with Two Names: Roanoke/Staunton
Christmas Eve on the Norfolk & Western in Rural Retreat]]> 2012
Volume 20, Number 2]]> The New Day at Appomattox
Rare Lee Letter Tells of "Thinning Ranks"
George S. Bernard on the Causes of the Civil War
An Army of Many Colors Trains in Salem in 1863
Hollins Institute Prepares for a New Civilization in 1864
Slaves Mustered as Soldiers in 1865
Women at War
'I Wish This War Was Over': Mollie Terry's Letters
To the Fatal Field of Appomattox: A History of the Salem Flying Artillery
A Demonstration at Hanging Rock
The Battle of Cloyd's Mountain: A Railroad, Salt Works, and Lead Mine
Saltville During the Civil War
Wythe Grays: Harpers Ferry and Beyond
Confederate, Union Sisters Deplore War
Union Officer, Furture President Forced to Retreat in Giles
Cleaning Up the Confederacy: Frank Smith Reader's 1864 Civil War Diary
Three Wythe County Soldiers with Different Fates]]> 2013
Volume 21, Number 1]]> Two Roads Diverged: Architectural History and Historic Preservation in the 21st Century
Cotton to Silk: An Oral History
How Lyman Draper Saved History
Down on the Market
Furniture and Aviation History Reside in Fogotten Facility on Kessler Mill Road
From Angry Words: A Bent Mountain Tragedy
Roanoke College and Its Advantages for Salem
The Grove: More than a Presidential Residence
Timeline of Roanoke Regional Airport
Another Look at the Fincastle Resolutions
Proposed Extension of the National Lewis and Clark Historic Trail
A Once Vibrant Communty: New Panels Tell of Gainsboro History]]> 2014
Volume 21, Number 2]]> Growing Up in Roanoke in the 1920s to 1930s
O. Winston Link's 100th Birthday Party
Bedford Barns
Frances Benjamin Johnston, Renowned Photographer, and the George Trout Farm in NW Roanoke
Runaway Slaves: Mindset of Negroes, 1861-1865
Many Presidents Have Visited the Roanoke Valley
Michelle Obama Has Henry County Slavery Roots
The Jacob Persinger Family in Backcountry Virginia
Living on the Edge of the Blue Ridge Parkway
Rebuilding Mabry Mill, A Southern Appalachian Icon
The American Chestnut Trade in the Blue Ridge of Southwestern Virginia
Charles Schaeffer: Freedmen’s Rights, Education,Worship in Christiansburg and Southwest Virginia, 1866-1899]]> 2015
Volume 22, Number 1]]> Roanoke Jews: A History
Crossing Roanoke Valley in Chains and Handcuffs
Old Chapel Church is 247 Years Old
Long Stained Glass Window is Coming to the Link Museum
Roanoke's First Flight
Natural Bridge, A Landmark for the Ages
Col. William Preston and Greenfield Revisited
Stephen Austin, Virginia Born, was "Father of Texas"
REv. Richard Jones, Activist, Orator, Founder of Black First Baptist Church, 1882-1904
Last Run of the Virginian Electrics
Verifying a Slave Community at Kentland]]> 2016
Volume 22, Number 2]]> Virginia's Western Counties and the Making of America
A New Road to be Opened: The Poplar Forest Parkway
Recalling Poplar Forest After Mr. Jefferson
Segregated Souls in the Star City
The Photographs of George Newton Wertz, 1852-1926
Exchange Bank in New Building
The Virginian Station and the Restoration
City Hall is 101!
Seven Hills of Rockbridge
Franklin County Business in 1883
Remembering World War I Veterans]]> 2018
Volume 23, Number 1]]> Armistice Ended "Greatest War in History" a Century Ago
The Humilitation of Lord Botetourt
Roanoke Cotton Mills
Sunday Trouble on Back Creek
The Legacies of Junteenth 150 Years Running
Bob Angell: An Early Mover and Shaker in Roanoke
Groundhog Club Members "Told Anything But the Truth"
Villamont, Virginia
The Yuchi Indians of Southwest Virginia and Their 1857 Roll
The Courtroom and a Confederate Monument
Early Wythe County Schools
Bedford Soldiers in the Revolution
History Meets Geography at the Eastern Continental Divide]]> 2019
Volume 23, Number 2]]> How the Mother County Began
The Virginia Brewing Company: Roanoke's First Brewery
Trees Provide Clues to Construction of Greenfield Kitchen and Slave Quarters
Trouts, Father and Son, Were Early Mayors
From the Front Porch to the Front Lines: Rural Virginia in a Threshold of Change-The Making of Movies
40,000 People Hear President Roosevelt in Salem
Scouting Milestone: First Camp Powhatan Nearly Lost to Time
Bottom Creek Gorge: Its People
Century Club Takes a River Trip
Lee Chapel at a Crossroads
Highest Per Capita: Bedford and D-Day
Parallels Between the English and American Revolutions
Historians, Robertson, Glanville, Dixon, Die]]> 2020
Volume 24, Number 1]]> Roanoke and the Southwest in Virginia History
The Enigmatic Stone Structures of Western Virginia
Orchard Hill
N&W, WWII
N&W Shops
Lost Colony
Slavery as America's "Peculiar" Institution
Roanoke-Norfolk Photographer, Richard Aufenger
Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club
New River
Botetourt "250 Years of Delight"
Botetourt 250+1 Marks 250th Anniversary
A Railroad to Fincastle
William Hackworth: Revolutionary Soldier
A Voice from the Past: Leroy Gresham]]> Starcropolis ]]> Starcropolis Facebook page]]> Items in the collection document events sponsored of the commission, including a television program, a display of Currier & Ives prints, commemoration of the Battle of Hanging Rock, and the visit from a Civil War era steam locomotive, “The General.” Information is also included on Moore’s personal visit to the last living Confederate veteran, Col. Walker Williams and the establishment of the Salem Flying Artillery reenactment organization.]]> Floyd Press]]> Ex-Officio Mayor from September 1, 1948 to August 31, 1949
Other offices held: City Council, September 1, 1948 to August 31, 1952
Date of Death: March 13, 1956]]> The collection includes the documents that Katherine Murphy amassed in her role as treasurer and board member of the Roanoke Council and Blue Ridge District of the Virginia Federation of Garden Clubs, and through her membership in the South Roanoke Garden Club. Items date from the early 1960s through the mid-1970s. The collection includes constitution and by-laws for the Roanoke Council of Garden Clubs, lists of officers and member clubs, presidents’ reports, financial reports, and minutes of meetings of the board of directors (1964-70), executive board (1965-71), and regular meetings (1965-71). It also includes documents related to the purchase and improvement of the Garden Center at “Fairview,” 2713 Avenham Ave. SW, Roanoke. Other items provide details on the financial aspects of the 1969 Color & Fashion for Living show. Various documents related to other activities of the garden clubs are also included.

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Duration: 45:26]]> The first section, Club Records, contains meeting minutes and annual reports, along with The Kiwanis News weekly newsletter. These records provide an excellent and detailed record of the club’s activities. There is also a nearly complete set of annual membership rosters, three of which have photos of the members, as well as notes and correspondence from one Club president.
The second section, Committee Records, contains committee notes for some of the standing committees. This section is mostly more recent records, and mostly contains selection notes from the Scholarship Committee in the 1980s and 90s.
The third section, Historical Information and General Roanoke Club Records, contains information about the Club’s history. There are maps, brochures, correspondence and deeds for Camp Kiwanianna, a summer camp for girls run by the Club from the 1940s to the 1960s. There are also general records, including newspaper clippings about members in the 1970s and assorted event programs, and photographs of Club events (often unidentified.)
The fourth and last section, District and International Records, contains some material about the Kiwanis Club International and activities as part of the Capital District. There are Capital District convention programs (some of the conventions were hosted in Roanoke), and a history of the District in the 1920s. There are also ribbons and patches from conventions.]]> The Roanoke Valley in the 1940s ]]> Starcropolis]]>
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DAR Members must have a documented ancestor who aided in the effort for American Independence. The purpose of the organization is to preserve and memorialize the history of men and women who were active in the effort of obtaining American Independence and to promote education regarding American history and citizenship. The Margaret Lynn Lewis Chapter donated time and money to a wide variety of efforts that furthered these goals. For several decades they sponsored a Good Citizen award to a local high school student. They also erected local monuments to memorialize patriotic causes and individuals.

Chapter members of note include Sarah Johnson Cocke (the second Mrs. Lucian H. Cocke) who, when she lived in Georgia, was a national charter member and one of the first vice-presidents general of the national DAR. Sally Smith Rowbotham (Mrs. Arthur Rowbotham) served as state regent and national vice-president of the DAR in the 1930s (though she had moved to Altavista, VA at that time). Willie Walker Caldwell (Mrs. Manley M. Caldwell), author and writer for The Roanoke Times, was a Republican national committee member. Several members were founders of the Roanoke Civic Betterment Club.
This collection includes scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, and other memorabilia amassed by members of the Margaret Lynn Lewis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Items document the activities of the local, state, and national DAR, as well as colonial and local history. Coverage of the chapter’s founding through the 1960s is limited. Materials created prior to the 1970s suffered water damage; there is reference in later documents to the flooding of a bank vault in November 1985 that affected the chapter’s memorabilia trunk. Only portions of early scrapbooks were salvaged and included in the donated items. These and some later items showed signs of mold; once digital copies were made of them, they were discarded. Digital copies were also made of later scrapbooks to document page order and item placement; these were then disassembled to remove newsprint and protect photographs.




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