- Historical Files
Files listed in chronological order
- Grayson County, VA Plat Book 1
- Grayson County, VA Road Orders
- Political Origins of Grayson County, Virginia
- The 1794 Grayson County, VA Land Tax List
- 1794 Grayson County Personal Property Tax List
- The 1796 Grayson County, VA Land Tax List
- The 1799 Grayson County, VA Land Tax List
- The 1800 Grayson County Personal Property Tax List
- The 1805 Grayson County Land Tax List
- The 1805 Grayson County Personal Property Tax List
- Minutes of Grayson County, Virginia Superior Court 1809-1821
- Grayson County, Virginia Militia Officers (Early)
- The 1810 Grayson County Tax List
- Grayson County Court Orders, 1811
- Grayson County Orphans 1811-1827 Abstracted by Tracy Farmer McMillon
- Grayson County Court Orders, 1812
- Grayson County, Virginia in the War of 1812
- David and Catherine Farmer Pension Application
- Michael Farmer Pension Statement
- Catherine Farmer Will
- The 1813 Grayson County, VA Personal Property Tax List
- Grayson County Court Orders, 1813 Partial
- 1817 Grayson County Tax List
- 1824 Grayson County Tax List
- 1825 Grayson County Tax List
- The 1826 Grayson County, VA Court Orders from Darlene Anderson
- 1828 Grayson County, Virginia Tax List
- Greenberry McKenzie Document 1830 Submitted by Hope B. Taylor
- Estate Settlement of Greenberry George McKenzie by Hope B. Taylor
- Grayson County Representation in the State Legislature
- Grayson County Bar 1793-1837
- Slaveholders in Grayson County, 1800-1860
- 1835 Grayson County, Virginia Tax List
- The 1835 Map of the New River Valley
- The 1840 Grayson County, Virginia Census (Eastern District)
- The 1840 Grayson County, Virginia Census (Western District)
- The 1850 Grayson County, Virginia Federal Census Courtesy of Joan Lewin
- Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory 1851-1852 for Virginia
- A Geological Visit to the Virginia Copper Region by Richard O. Currey, A.M., M.D., 1859
- 1860 Grayson County Mortality Schedule
- 1860 Grayson County, Virginia Industrial Schedule
- 1860 Grayson County, Virginia Agriculture Schedule
- The Virginia Civil War Home Page Grayson County, Virginia Civil War Records
- Civil War Surnames: A - F
- Civil War Surnames: G - L
- Civil War Surnames: M - R
- Civil War Surnames: S - Z
- Minutes of the Grayson County Confederate Pension Board
- Grayson County, VA Court Orders - 1861
- Grayson County, VA Court Orders - January 1862
- The 1863 Grayson County, Virginia Land Tax List
- Letter from W. C. Parker to Capt. Venable, November 7, 1864
- Heroes of America
- The Annotated 1870 Grayson County, VA Census in three large files
- Virginia School Report for 1874 (Grayson and surrounding Counties)
- The 1880 Grayson Co., VA Census - Wilson District only
- 1880 Grayson County Virginia Delinquents and Dependents Schedule
- 1880 Grayson County, Virginia Mortality Schedule
- Chataigne's Virginia Gazetteer 1888-89
- The 1890 Grayson County Land Tax List
- The 1890 Union Veterans Census for Southwest Virginia
- Grayson County Post Offices and Postmasters
- Announcement of Elk Creek Academy 1899- 1900
- Catalogue of High Point Academy, Grant, Grayson County, Virginia Session 1903-1904
- Jones Funeral Parlor Galax Virginia Record of Deaths and Coffins Bought 1905-1936
- First Annual Catalogue of Galax High School 1906-1907
- Hill's Directory for Grayson County, Virginia - 1911
- Minutes of the Grayson County, Virginia Local Board for Tax Equalization 1915-1927
- Grayson County, VA Statistical Study - 1925
- The 1927 Grayson County Agricultural Advisory Committee Report
- Carroll County: Industrial Survey, 1929 (Contains Grayson County Information)
- Soil Survey of Grayson County, Virginia - 1930
- First Lady Visits Whitetop Mountain (1933) By Mack Sturgill
- Housing of Grayson Farm Folk: 1940-1945
- Virginia World War II Military Deaths 1941-1945
- Grayson County World War Memorial
- Grayson County, Virginia Census Statistics
- History of Troutdale, Virginia by Charles Greer 1953
- Program for the Golden Anniversary of Galax, August 5-11, 1956
- Memories of Early Galax by F. Clyde Bedsaul
- Golden Memories of Galax by W. S. Barbery
- Footprints on the Sands of Time by A. B. Cox
- Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County by Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls
- Grayson Co., Va. - 1897 by C. R. Boyd
- Agriculture
- Grayson County Office, Virginia Cooperative Extension Service
- Grayson County, Virginia Farm Bureau Certified Organic Growers - Grayson County - county no longer listed
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- Forestry in Grayson County
- The Political Graveyard Grayson County
- My Anderson Grandparents by Winifred Anderson Huddle
- John Anderson's Will Courtesy of Paul B. Anderson
- Sherwood Anderson
- William Bartlett Family
- Early History of Thomas Blair by Hope Bartlett Taylor
- William and Rosamond Bourne
- William Henry Bramblett, M.D.
- William A. McCarter
- Greenberry George McKenzie, Grayson County's 2nd Sheriff by Hope Bartlett Taylor
- Alexander Mathews Davis
- Emmett Lundy
- John A. Messer, biography by Judy Alley
- John A. Messer, Galax Industrialist Courtesy of Judy Alley
- James Davis Perkins
- Reminiscences by Columbus Phipps
- The Life and Adventures of Wilburn Waters by Charles B. Coale
- See Southwest Virginia Books for a collection of reprinted books and original material of interest to researchers.
- Twin Commonwealth Publishers, LLC Book Store has some of the texts offered on this web site, and several other historic texts, not on the web site, are offered as reprints.
- Logical Support, Inc., Independence, Virginia These are absolutely fabulous folks, and past sponsors of New River Notes.!
- Morton Realty
- United Country Foxfire Realty
- Grayson Highlands Family Medicine
- Galax - Carroll - Grayson Chamber of Commerce
- Fries Hydro Facility
- Grayson County Cemeteries
- City of Galax Cemeteries (Cemeteries located within the city limits of Galax)
- Grayson County Churches
- History of American Baptists - Virginia - 1848
- St. Clair's Bottom Primitive Baptist Association History
- Primitive Baptist Faith and Practice
- Minutes of the Mountain District Baptist Association - 1800
- Minutes of the Mountain District Baptist Association - 1865
- The Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association for 1872
- Senter District Primitive Baptist Association Minutes - 1879
- The Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association for 1896 Alleghany and Surry County, North Carolina and Grayson and Carroll County, Virginia
- The Minutes of the Mountain District Primitive Baptist Association for 1905 Alleghany and Surry County, North Carolina and Grayson and Carroll County, Virginia
- The Minutes of the Jefferson Baptist Association for 1848 Ashe County, NorthCarolina and Grayson County Virginia
- Minutes of the Jefferson Baptist Association for 1853
- Minutes of the Jefferson Baptist Association for 1853 (Partial record only)
- The Minutes of the 1868 Jefferson Baptist Association
- The Minutes of the 1869 Jefferson Baptist Association
- Minutes of a Convention held by Representatives of Churches in the Lebanon, Jefferson and United Baptist Associations - June 10, 1870
- New River Baptist Association Historical Table 1871- 1977
- Minutes of the New River Baptist Association for 1881
- Grace Baptist Church, Fries, VA
- Haw Orchard Baptist Church, Grayson County, VA
- History of the Mountain Union Baptist Association
- Photographs of groups at Central Methodist Church, ca. 1917 Courtesy of Roderick Coats
- Sketch of the Christian Unity Baptist Association
- Religion in the Upper New River Valley, including list of antebellum churches and ministers
- Early Religion in the Upper New River Valley
Also see various county court orders, above.
- Early Grayson County Crime and Criminals
- The Commonwealth v Peter May 1834
- The Killing of Holt Pugh - 1918
- Murder of Allie Glade Anderson - 1948 also known as the Goat Shooting. Contributed by Stephanie Graves, Researched by Chuck Burruss.
- Pictures of Wolf Knob School, Rugby, Grayson County, Virginia from Lessie Blevins.
- Pine Mountain School, Elk Creek, Grayson County, Virginia, ca. 1909 Courtesy of Thom Houk
- Grayson County Schools - Historic and Links to Current
- Comprehensive listing of Grayson County Schools
- Galax High School 1928-1930 Contributed by Judy Alley
- Grayson County, Virginia Heritage Foundation
- Grayson County, Virginia GenForum
- Rings of Grayson County, Virginia by Eric RingNew
- Welsh Family Record Courtesy of Roderick Coates
- Grayson County, Virginia or Galax, Virginia Place Names
- Regional Maps, ca. 1920
- Grayson Co., Va. - 1897 by C. R. Boyd
- Resources of Southwest Virginia by C. E. Boyd, E. M. (this is a copy of pp. 268-321 of this book pertaining to Carroll, Grayson, Ashe and Alleghany Counties)
- White Top -- The Summit of Virginia by W. H. T. Squires
Grayson County Populated Places Courtesy of Paul B. Anderson
- Grayson County Gazetteer - Current and historic places: communities, mills, fords, branches, schools, hollows, knobs, etc.
- The Anderson Mills on Middle Fox Creek by Winifred Anderson Huddle
- Grayson County, Virginia Places on the National Register of Historic Places
- Historical Medical Professionals (Doctors in Ashe, Alleghany and Grayson County)
- 19th Century Medical Terms
- Grayson County Medical Demographics
- Grayson County Rural Health Database
- Grayson County's Participation in Lord Dunmore's War (1774)
- Study of the Flower Swift Militia Company in the Revolutionary War by James Quinn
- Grayson County's Revolutionary War Pension Applicants (1776-1783) by Ginger Ballard
- "My Life in the Civil War" by Billy Jennings
- Grayson County, Virginia World War I Veterans
- Grayson County, in War Time (1917-1919)
- Grayson County, Virginia Veterans of World War I
- World War I AEF Information
- World War I Questionnaires from the Library of Virginia
- Roster of the Blue Ridge Guard, Galax, Virginia (Virginia Volunteers 1917-1920)
- Grayson County World War Memorial
- The Galax Gazette
- The Declaration, Independence, Virginia
- Little Wilson Wilderness Area
- Virginia Creeper Trail
- Blue Ridge Parkway
- Blue Ridge Parkway
- Appalachian National Scenic Trail
- Grayson Highlands State Park
- New River Trail State Park
- Mount Rogers National Recreation Area
- Lewis Fork Wilderness Area
- Dan Graybeal's Mount Roger's Page - link is missing
- Historic Grayson County School Photographs - (Virginia State Library search needs to be updated)
- Historic Galax School Photographs- (Virginia State Library search needs to be updated)
- Grayson County, Virginia Birth Records 1853-1879 A-C contributed by Ginger Ballard
- Grayson County, Virginia Birth Records 1853-1879 D-H contributed by Ginger Ballard
- Grayson County, Virginia Birth Records 1853-1879 I-O contributed by Ginger Ballard
- Grayson County, Virginia Birth Records 1853-1879 P-R contributed by Ginger Ballard
- Grayson County, Virginia Birth Records 1853-1879 S-Z contributed by Ginger Ballard
- Grayson County, Virginia Birth Records 1884-1888 Compiled by Billie White
- Grayson County, Virginia Marriages 1793-1836
- Grayson County, Virginia Wills 1793-1849
- Grayson County, Virginia Death Register 1853-1870 Compiled by Jeff Weaver and Ginger Ballard
- Grayson County Death Records 1870-1896 A-F Compiled by Billie White
- Grayson County Death Records 1870-1896 G-M Compiled by Billie White
- Grayson County Death Records 1870-1896 N-Z Compiled by Billie White
- See Southwest Virginia Books for Grayson County marriage records from 1853 through 1931.
- The 1902-1903 Grayson County, Virginia Voter Registration List by Ginger Ballard