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Radford originated as a railroad town in 1856 and has been known as Lovely Mount, English Ferry, Ingles's Ferry, Central Depot, and lastly, Central City. In 1887 Radford was incorporated in as a town and was incorporated as a city in 1892. The city was named Radford to honor John Blair RADFORD, a prominent citizen of the city. The Radford State Teachers College was established there in 1913. Prior to being chartered as an independent city in 1892 the Radford area records were kept at the courthouse for Montgomery County located in Christiansburg, Virginia

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Your Radford City, Virginia Coordinators are Tami Ramsey and Rhonda Smith- Unfortunately because of time constraints we cannot answer any genealogy questions but please contact us if you have any comments or material to add to the webpage. Most of the material provided are links to other genealogical sites but we have attempted to represent them in one place for your convenience. If you have anything to add to the page please contact me. Tami Ramsey

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Crossing New River at East Radford, Virginia
Dr. S. M. Johnson Photo Gallery - US Dept. of Transportation

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Copies of birth, death, marriage and divorce certificates can be requested from the Virginia Department of Health Office of Vital Records, which houses more than 7 million records.
Office of Vital Statistics

P.O. Box 1000
Richmond, VA
23218-1000
804-662-6200
1853-1896 Birth & Death records are on file at The Virginia Archives as well as marriage records prior to 1936
The Court House for the City of Radford, Virginia has records from 1892 of wills, deeds, land plats, marriages, divorces and miscellaneous court orders. Death records are kept at the Health Department but only for the three prior years. The hours for the Radford Court House are: 8:30am - 5:00pm Monday through Friday. It is closed on all official holidays.
Send address inquires to:
Clerk of the Circuit Court
619 Second Street - Room 133
Radford, Virginia 24141
Phone: 1-540-731-3610
For Birth or Death records from the State of Virginia click here for the form to mail in

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 BIBLE RECORDS

   

BIOGRAPHIES

         

 BIRTHS

     

 BLACK HISTORY

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 Virginia Black History Archives

Jackson Davis Collection

An educational reformer and amateur photographer, took photographs of African American schools, teachers and students.

 People of Color in the Old South

Register of Free Negroes and Mulattoes in Montgomery County, Virginia

 1840 Slave Schedule For Montgomery County

 Timeline of Black History at Virginia Tech

The Wharton's

An offsite link 
   

BOOKS & DIARIES

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 A History of Middle New River Settlements and Contiguous Territories
By Daved E. Johnston, 1906

Radford City in War Time

A Community History
By Sadie Johnson Reid
 

BUSINESS

     


 CEMETERIES

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 Caldwell Cemetery

 Central Cemetery

 Coleman Cemetery

Cemetery Beside Caldwell Cemetery

 Gibson, Harman, Ross, Stump Cemetery

 Heth Cemetery

Mountain View Restoration Project 

 Radford Family Cemetery

 

 Westview Cemetery

Partial Survey

 The Political Graveyard for Radford City


 CENSUS

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1840 Census of Pensioners - Military

An Offsite Link

   

Census Information Page

 An Offsite Link
Radford City Quick Facts from the US Census Bureau

 

1880 Census

An Offlink Site

 S&K Census Indexes for VA

 Electronic census spreadsheets

An Off Site Link

 USGenWeb Census Project


 CHURCHES

     

 COMMUNITIES

     

 COURT DOCUMENTS

     

 DEATHS & OBITUARIES

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 The Murder of Billie Jean Turpin

An Offsite Link
 

 Funeral Homes in Radford


 EDUCATION/SCHOOLS

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Radford University

 Radford City Schools

 Appalachian Rural Education Network

Opening of the
McGuffey Training School

(1930) 

 

 FAMILIES

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 The Roads to Radford, VA
The Journeys of the Roseberry-Keister Family

 RATCLIFF Family


 HISTORY

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Tracing the New River’s Name

 Archives of Appalachia

 

Appalachian History Collection at VA Tech

 The Fincastle Resolutions

 Draper Manuscripts

Chalkley's Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia

 Click here to read about the Early Fincastle County Records

 William and Mary College

Quarterly Historical Magazine


 LIBRARIES

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Manuscript Collection at VA Tech Library

University Libraries
Special Collections Department
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001

 Radford City Library

The Library of Virginia (LVA)
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219-1905
Phone: 804.692.3500


 LINKS

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Genealogical Databases of

Old Prison Records


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New River Notes

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 MAPS

  1895 Map showing Radford

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 1915 Map of Western Virginia 

An Offsite Link

 Virginia County outline map

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City of Radford, Virginia
Interactive Geographic Information System

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Virginia 1861 Map  

An Offsite link 

USGS National Mapping System

An Offsite Link

 Virginia Historical Counties Map

Provides on-demand, printable, large-scale maps of every boundary change of every county and independent city of Virginia.User chooses any day and month from 1634 to 2000 and can zoom in or out or alter the map in other ways. An easy-to-use HELP file and supplementary texts support the maps. From the Newberry Library

Geostat - University of Virginia Library 

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 Radford Map

An offsite link

 MARRIAGES

 

 Radford City Marriages - 1892

 

 MILITARY

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Virginia Civil War Page

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National Archives Records Administration

(NARA) - Where you send off for various records, mostly military related


 The Valley of the Shadow

A wonderful Civil War History database of information - Mostly Augusta and Franklin Counties

 

 WWI History Commission Questionnaires

An LVA Offsite Link
 

 MUSEUMS

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 Wilderness Road Regional Museum

An Offsite link

Glencoe Museum

Home of Gen. Gabriel Wharton

 NEWSPAPERS

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 Southwest Times

 Roanoke Times - New River Valley Edition

 Radford News Journal

NRV Today 

 Archive of Radford University Newspapers

 

 ORGANIZATIONS

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New River Historical Society Home page

An Offsite link

 
Radford Heritage Foundation

Harvey-Howe Post No. 30 - American Legion
East Radford, Virginia

An Offsite link by Jeff Weaver

Kiwanis Club of Radford
Division 3 of the Capital District
 

 The Woman's Club of Radford Former Presidents

 Radford Noon Rotary Club

General William Campbell Chapter of the NSDAR 

   

 PENSIONS

     

 PHOTOGRAPHS

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Radford Photograph Collection at the Library of Virginia

Wonderful Photographs! 

 Beverly Deaton NANCE

 Photograph Book published by Radford University abt. 1919

An offsite link to RU

Radford Record Album, 1915 

An offsite link to RU

 Early Downtown Radford

Contributed by Curtis Farmer

 Early Radford Bridge

Contributed by Curtis Farmer

 PLACES

 Places & Events in RU History

An offsite link to RU

 Radford Arboretum

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 Nesselrod

(Fairlawn, Pulaski County side of Radford)
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 POSTCARDS

     

 RECREATION

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History of Wildwood Park in Radford

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 TAXES

     

 WILLS

     

Radford City RESOURCES

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 City of Radford Pages

 Radford Information Network

 

 Radford Chamber of Commerce

 Visitors Guide to the New River Valley

 

 GENEALOGY HELPERS LINKS

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 Geographic Nameserver

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 USGenWeb Archive Search Engine, State-by-State

 VAGenWeb Archives

 Search the LDS website

 Search the Digital Resources at the Library of Virginia

 Search the DAR Library Catalog

 Where to Write for Vital Statistics

 Create a timeline of History

 Epidemics in the United States

 US Newspapers Link

The Association for Gravestone Studies 

  State Abbreviations

 Cyndi's List

 

 Deciphering Old Handwriting


 

 
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