Southwest Virginia Museum
Originated by Mrs. Janie Slemp Newman and developed by her brother, C. Bascom Slemp, as a neighborhood museum. It contains books by local authors, portraits of citizens, implements, machines, furniture, household utensils, furnishings and costumes. It presents a representative picture of the life of Southwestern Virginians of the past. The collection of museum pieces was bequeathed to Virginia by will of C. Bascom Slemp and accepted by the State in 1946.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
Many of these markers have since been replaced or their texts revised. The marker program and its current texts are maintained by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Department of Historic Resources ↗
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUSGS Historical Topographic Map CollectionDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesUSGS Historical Topographic Map CollectionDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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