Wise
County Historical Society Activities 2
Meetings and Business At Hand
Excerpts From Minutes
Scroll down to see Trip to
Historic Crab Orchard Museum and Burkes Garden
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APRIL 28, 1994: Report on the
Status of World War II Book. Discussion of the reprint of the Heritage of Wise County and the City of
Norton.
All books have been sold. On May 15, 1994, the
Historical Society will be moving into their new office space on the first floor
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Office
Painting of Wise by Lois Tracy
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JUNE 21, 1994: Motion for
the Society to sponsor the Historical Walking Tour and Book Fair during
the Fall Fling. Motion for the Society to print the Banner Community
Heritage.
JULY 21, 1994: Motion to purchase a sign for the door and
window of the office. Society has received 220 of the
re-print of the Heritage of Wise County and the City of Norton
books. Sweatshirts to be ordered for the Society. Report on the
status of the book Wise County's Men and Women in World War II.. Society has applied for a grant
to purchase much
needed equipment.
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AUGUST 13, 1994: Pound
Methodist Church. History of the Pound United Methodist Church
by Emily Qualls. Reminiscences by Ayers Shortt. Officer Selection.
Ballots were submitted to elect Officers and Board of Directors members.
The Results of election are as follows:
President: William C. Gobble; Vice President: Sue S. Gilliam; Recording
Secretary: Rhonda Robertson; Treasurer: Wanda Rose
Directors: Appalachia: Dolly Opal Watson; Big Stone Gap: Dot
Carroll; Coeburn: Bill Porter; Norton: Paul Kilgore; Pound: Blaine
Sturgill; St. Paul: Leroy Hilton; Wise: Fannie Steele. |
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AUGUST 27, 1994: NEWS: Wise County Historical Society will
sponsor a BOOK FAIR at the Fall Fling on October 8th and 9th. Several authors
will be selling their books in the hallway at the entrance to the Wise
Courthouse on Main Street in Wise. Also a Used Book Sale and White
Elephant sale of al items except clothing. We will also be having an OPEN
HOUSE RECEPTION on Friday, October 7th. The historical society also plans
a bus trip on October 15th, to tour historical places in Tazewell County,
including Burke's Garden. We will also be having a HISTORICAL WALKING TOUR OF
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SEPTEMBER 6, 1994: The Banner Book by
Billy R. Porter and others, will go to Johnson City printers this week.
Will pre-sell. Bill Gobble has completed the Calendar. Suggested by
Bill Gobble to combine the Town Meetings. T-shirts soon to be ready.
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The Wise County Historical Society would like to take
this opportunity to extend our heartfelt thanks and appreciation to Joe
Wolf and Farmer, Attorneys on Park Avenue, Norton. Mr. Wolfe has
kindly included mention of The Heritage of Wise County and The City of Norton
in all the advertisements his firm has used during our drive to sell the
volume. Without his assistance, the Society is sure that the sale
of this volume would not have been accomplished so quickly.
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The Society is currently selling THE MELUNGEONS by N.
Brent Kennedy. This is the newest and most up-to-date
history of the Melungeons
The Coeburn Virginia Area History,
published by the Kiwanis Club will be available and will contain approximately
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Recently Denver, (Bud) Osborne of the Historical
Society found and purchased an original photo of Henry Alexander Wise,
Governor of Virginia for whom Wise County was named at a local flea
market.
Thanks to the Historical Society of the Pound for
helping with WISE COUNTY'S MEN AND WOMEN IN WORLD WAR II. The members are
assisting by contacting people who served and by obtaining their photos and
write-ups.
Toys for children donated by Wise County Historical
Society
Historical
Christmas Tree decorated by Wise County Historical Society at Southwest
VA Museum in Big Stone Gap |
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Special thanks to Juanita Mullins of Pound
and Ron Helton for the beautiful sign that she prepared for the
Society, which will be displayed in the hallway beside our office. The
sign was made by Ron Helton, who got wood from the Old Baptist Church in Wise
and made it. We can't sing Juanita's praised enough; she is the gift that
keeps on giving.
SEPTEMBER 29th 1994: Everyone will ask
their bank if they want to buy calendars. Sweatshirts to be picked up. No
more histories taken after Oct 31st. for WWII book. Postpone Tazewell County
until Spring. Members to work Fall Fling.
NOVEMBER 1, 1994: World War II Calendar has
been proofed. Should be delivered by Thanksgiving. Grant awarded for
$2,000. Historical Society did well at the Open House and the Fall
Fling. Sold all but two sweatshirts. Meetings will be held on
Tuesday nights in our office.
DECEMBER 6, 1994: Report on the status of our
grant from the Slemp Foundation. Report on the sale of World War II
Calendar. Report on the status of Wise County's Men and Women in World war
II. Membership Drive. Discussion to combine the towns of Coeburn and
St. Paul for Meetings.
MARCH 7, 1995: " The Addingtons of
Virginia" by Nancy Clark Brown and Rhonda Robertson, is now on sale for
$50.00. Sold all our copies of the History of the Pound Vol. II. Work Day
is needed to clean our recently acquired room, the vault. Wise County
Historical Society will meet on Saturday, March 11th, at the Western Steer in
Norton. Bill Porter will be in charge of the meeting. Dutch treat with the
exception of our guest speaker, after which Randall Osborne will speak on the
Virginia State Line during the Civil War. Bill Porter talked about the
proposed Historic Resources office, and the possibility of its being located in
Wise. Decision to go ahead and copy the Wise County birth records of
1912-1918 and file in books to be made available in our office. Bill
Gobble to copy these records.
Wise County Historical Society met on Saturday March 11th,
at the Western Steer in Norton. Twenty members were present. The guest speaker
was Randall Osborne of Myra, KY, who gave a most impressive talk on his book,
"The Virginia State Rangers and State Line," which he wrote with
Jeffrey C. Weaver of Arlington, VA. Jeffrey C. Weaver has also written a
book called "The Civil War in Buchanan and Wise Counties, A Bushwhackers'
Paradise." Both books may be purchased at the Wise County Historical
Society office in the courthouse at Wise for $25.00 each. Mr. Osborne's
speech centered mostly on the activities of Major General John B. Floyd,
Commander of the VA State Line, and Colonel Nathaniel McClure Menifee during the
Civil War.
Bill
Gobble and Author
Randall Osborne
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Randall
Osborne and Wanda Rose
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Randall
Osborne -Elzie Sock Mullins and Bud Osborne
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Members
of Historical Society
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Happy Birthday
To Paul Kilgore!
The
Wise County Historical Society celebrated the birthday of one of it's founding
members on April 13, 1995 at the historical Society Office in the Wise County
Courthouse n Main Street in Wise, VA. Members of the Society attended
along with members of the community All wish Paul a very, very happy
Birthday!
Paul is one of the best
when it comes to researching records in the courthouse. He knows and
enjoys his work and helping people with their family research. He has
visited many cemeteries in Wise County and has recorded the engravings on the
stones. He has several volumes of Cemetery Records at the Historical
Society office for sale. Cemetery records are a valuable resource for
researching.
The Wise County Historical
Society's May Meeting will be a trip to Historic Crab Orchard Fort in Tazewell,
VA. On Saturday , May 13, 1995 at 8:00 a.m. Plans for the trip will be
finalized at the May 2, meeting.
The Wise County Historical
Society is in the process of copying the Birth and Death Records from June 1912
until 1919. The Death records have been copied and the Birth records
are being copied at present.
A
limited number of World War II Calendars are still available from The
Wise County Historical Society. The
Publication date for Wise County's Men and Women in World War II is
scheduled for V-J Day 1995.
Trip Crab Orchard Museum
By Dorothy Witt
On May 13, 1995, two van
loads of Wise County Historical Society members traveled to Tazewell County, VA
to attend the annual Pioneer Festival at Historic Crab Orchard Museum.
Rhonda Robertson, Gladys Stallard, Louise Delp, Blaine Sturgill, Wanda Rose,
Nina Mullins, Dorothy Witt, Bill and Diane Porter, Bill and Lil Gobble, Denver
and Kathy Osborne, and Fannie Hamilton spent the morning touring the grounds of
the Crab Orchard Museum, visiting the blacksmith shop, the pottery shop, the old
stage coach shop, and listening to dulcimer music as the clogger's danced.
We also enjoyed prowling through and old log home and watching dinner being
prepared on the fireplace. In "the church" at the Museum, we all
gathered around the old pump organ and sang hymns.
Following lunch, we drove on across the mountain into "The Garden Spot of
the World", Burke's Garden. This is a beautiful 25,000 acre farming
community surrounded by a continuous circle of mountains. Here we visited
two country stores and came home loaded with homemade bread and butter, jellies,
books, etc. It was a great day! Below
are photos of the tour.
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on Photos to enlarge
