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Montgomery County and economic growth, 1776-1860
The Blue Ridge Mountains separated Montgomery County, Virginia from the state's eastern agricultural markets. This mountain barrier restricted the transportation of crops and therefore limited farm products to subsistence crops and easily transported livestock. Only after the construction of the …
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Black education in Montgomery County, Virginia, 1939-1966
Black education was unique in Montgomery County, Virginia, during Jim Crow segregation because African American students were able to attend Christiansburg Institute (C.I.), a black secondary school with an excellent reputation. C.I. initially emphasized vocational education, but in the late 1940s …
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Geology of the Blacksburg area, Montgomery County, Virginia
This 17 square mile area, on the western plunge of the Catawba syncline and the eastern plunge of the Price Mountain anticline, consists of the Cambrian Rome and Elbrook Formations thrust over younger Cambrian, Ordovician, and Mississippian rocks. The more or less age autochthonous rocks are the …
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Structural geology of the Christiansburg area, Montgomery County, Virginia
… map area consists of about 19 square miles in Montgomery County, Virginia, and is underlain by sedimentary rocks ranging in age from Middle Cambrian to Middle Ordovician. Post-Ordovician strata have been eliminated by thrusting and erosion. From south to north the rocks belong to five fault …
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A case study of growth management practices, Montgomery County, Maryland
Typescript (photocopy).
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Home Repair Experiences of Older Consumers in Montgomery County, Virginia
… older consumers involved in senior groups in Montgomery County, Virginia. Participants were obtained by the researcher at meetings in different parts of the county. A telephone interview was used to collect the data. Demographic data is reported using descriptive statistics. Qualitative …
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Characteristics of runoff from three watersheds in Montgomery County, Virginia
… located within the same drainage basin in Montgomery County, Virginia. Watershed number 1 included 80 acres of heavily forested land; number 2 consisted of 50 acres of pasture land and approximately 0.1 acre of barren land; and number 3 included 20 acres of brush land and steep embankments …
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A qualitative analysis of open space planning using Montgomery County, MD
… and active recreation and natural conservation. Montgomery County, Maryland is used as a case example. The qualitative data comes from interviews with planning personnel from the community and park planning departments. As part of the process, the relationship and roles between these two …
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Builders, craftsmen and tradesmen in Montgomery County, Virginia, between 1850 and 1900
… documents, the craftsmen of a specific region, Montgomery County, that may have contributed to the construction of area buildings between 1850 and 1900. Data from Population Census reports and Birth Registers were used to create a matrix of craftsmen names, their trade, location, and length of …
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Utilization of Stormwater Retention Ponds by Aquatic Turtles in Montgomery County, Virginia
Stormwater ponds design to mitigate the negative impacts of runoff from impervious surfaces in urban areas have become common landscape features as they are required by state and local environmental regulations. While some have hypothesized that stormwater ponds may provide habitat for wildlife, …
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Remove Him to the Poorhouse: Poor-Relief in Montgomery County, VA, 1830-1880
… asks how the residents of nineteenth-century Montgomery County, Virginia understood the county's responsibility for providing poor relief, and what underlying values and beliefs informed that understanding. Using local government records and state legislative and administrative records, this …
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A proposed record keeping system for supervised farming programs in Montgomery County, Virginia
… farming programs. The study was made in Montgomery County, Virginia. It involved the close cooperation of the Montgomery County Agriculture Teachers Association, which is composed of teachers from the Riner, Shawsville, Christiansburg, and Blacksburg Agriculture Departments. Through this …
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Programs and Procedures of Desegregation Developed by the Board of Education, Montgomery County, Maryland
… Board of Education and the professional staff of Montgomery County, Maryland, to comply with the Supreme Court rulings declaring unconstitutional the practice of segregated schools. A further purpose is to determine what guideposts were used in dealing with the factors and forces operating to help …
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An automated method for locating sinkholes in Montgomery County, Virginia, using digital elevation models
The prospect of using U.S.G.S. Digital Elevation Models (DEM's) to locate sinkholes has been investigated. Three quadrangle maps, those of Blacksburg, Ironto and Newport, were selected as these areas are dotted with sinkholes. An algorithm was developed to extract sinkholes from DEM's. Sinkholes …
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An Appalachian portrait: black and white in Montgomery County, Virginia, before the Civil War
Montgomery County, Virginia, is a southern Appalachian county founded in 1776. Throughout the county's antebellum history, as with most other regions of the South, four major population groups were visibly present. There were slaves, free blacks, white slaveowners, and white non-slaveowners. Little …
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Design of Early Ordinaries and Taverns in Montgomery County, Virginia from 1773 to 1823
… first stops along the Wilderness Road being in Montgomery County, this study sought to determine if public houses existed in this county between the years 1773-1823, and if so, where were they located and who operated them. Further, what was the typical design or plan of public houses and how …
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