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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Floyd County"”.
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Appalachian quilts of Floyd County, Virginia
… research was to study the evolution of quilts in Floyd County, Virginia, as a means of documenting the life and culture of the county natives. Both documents and relics were examined and methods of qualitative and quantitative analysis were utilized. The relics were any existing quilts made in …
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Sisson's Kingdom: Loyalty Divisions in Floyd County, Virginia, 1861-1865
… of the Confederate homefront collapse of Floyd County, Virginia. The study focuses primarily on residents' conflicting loyalty choices during the war, and attempts to explain the myriad of ways that their discord operated to remove Floyd County as a positive portion of the Confederate …
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The development of schooling in Floyd County, Virginia 1831-1900
… affected the development of schooling in Floyd County, located in southwest Virginia, from its formation in 1831 to the beginning of the twentieth century. Floyd County was formed in 1831 during Virginia's quasi-system of education. This quasi-system was created due to the "peopling" of …
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Petrology of the Ashe Formation, Shortt's Knob area, Floyd County, Virginia
A small area within the Ashe Formation has been mapped at the scale 1:6000 and studied petrographically and chemically. The rocks have been metamorphosed into the lowermost amphibolite facies and folded. The gross structure is homoclinal, generally N 80° E, >50°SE. Amphibolites (39%), chlorite …
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Land utilization study on 100 farms in Floyd County, Virginia, in 1937
… is relatively plentiful, as was the case in Floyd County. It seems, from the results of this study, that when the value and condition of buildings are used in the classification of land that the tenure of the operator should be taken into consideration. To attempt a land classification …
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Aging in place: functional environments: a survey and case study in Floyd County, Virginia
… was conducted in two phases. In Phase I 102 Floyd County, Virginia, adults 65 years of age or older were interviewed in order to identify their task capabilities and identify the modifications being made to meet their environmental needs and task capabilities. Phase II consisted of a case …
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The Federal State And Hegemony: Politics In Floyd County, Kentucky And The Latter Years Of The War On Poverty
… follows the later years of the War on Poverty in Floyd County specifically to discover what changes were created in the political and social spheres. </p> <p>This thesis’ findings are based in a contextualized reading of local and foreign newspapers, letters to Representative Carl D. Perkins and …
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Music and Depth in Landscape Experience
… an abandoned homestead on Shooting Creek and the Floyd Country Store, both in Floyd County, Virginia, along the Crooked Road. The approach to intervention developed in these proposals is intended to guide the development of additional sites along the Crooked Road with the goals of enriching the …
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Evaluating Preferential Recharge in Blue Ridge Aquifer Systems Using Saline Tracers
… recharge at the Fractured Rock Research Site in Floyd County, Virginia. Tracer migration was monitored through soil, saprolite, and fractured crystalline bedrock for a period of 3 months with chemical, physical, and geophysical techniques. Potassium chloride (KCl) and potassium bromide (KBr) …
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Aquifer Characterization in the Blue Ridge Physiographic Province
… studies in the Blue Ridge Province in Floyd County, Virginia reveal a substantially different framework for groundwater flow. Recent acquisition of two-dimensional surface resistivity profiles collected using a variety of array techniques combined with borehole geophysical logs revealed …
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Trace metal effects on ectomycorrhizal growth, diversity, and colonization of host seedlings
… on a mine reclamation project in Wise County, Virginia. Pinus strobus trees planted 1, 8, 13, and 25 years prior to the experiment were sampled. Colonization was lower than in well developed soils, but occurred on all seedlings. Increased colonization and a late stage mycobiont (Tuber) …
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Physical Investigation of Field Scale Groundwater Recharge Processes in the Virginia Blue Ridge Physiographic Province
… collected at the Fractured Rock Research Site in Floyd County, Virginia indicate that recharge rates to the subsurface are controlled by a small scale thrust fault associated with regional thrust faulting within the Blue Ridge Province. Recharge rates appear to be correlated to spatial variation …
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Appalachian Alter-Natives: The Back-to-the-Land Migration and Community Change in Appalachia, 1970--2000
… existed alongside the desire for autonomy. Using Floyd County, Virginia, and Lincoln County, West Virginia, as case studies, this dissertation analyzes the in-migrants' integration into Appalachia and the broad effects they had on the region's social, political, and economic landscape. So the …
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Occurrence of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) in Private Water Supplies in Southwest Virginia
… supplies in two counties in Southwest Virginia (Floyd and Roanoke), and to examine the potential for reliance on citizen-science based strategies for sample collection in subsequent broader sampling efforts. Samples for inorganic ions, bacteria, and PFAS analysis were collected on separate …
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Assessing Changes in Bog Turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii) Population Abundance and Factors Influencing Nest Predation in Virginia
… surveys in six wetlands in Floyd County, Virginia during 2019 and 2020, and generated abundance estimates. These wetlands had been surveyed in the same manner in 1997, which provided me the opportunity to compare recent abundance estimates with those generated from the 1997 …
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Discover. Reveal. Educate.: Making a School for Bluegrass Music in Floyd, Virginia
Architecture can facilitate the learning process. This book outlines a design exploration of this fundamental premise. The architectural platform for this exploration is a music conservatory dedicated to teaching the traditional mountain music of Appalachia. The rich history of mountain music and …