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Betty Meade Stuart Collection

Stewart Bell Jr. Archives
Handley Regional Library
Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society

P.O. Box 58, Winchester, VA 22604
(540) 662-9041 ext. 17
archives@handleyregional.org
www.handleyregional.org

1665 THL

SCOPE AND CONTENT: The collection contains four scrapbooks with feature news clippings from the 1930s, 1940s, 1980s, and the1990s as well as news articles concerning the local events in of Clarke County, White Post, and Boyce during the 1990s. The news articles were published in the Clarke Courier, The Winchester Star, the Northern Virginia Daily, The Washington Post, and the Baltimore Sun,

1980 – 2003.(2 boxes) Last updated 03/12.

BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL: Betty Meade Stuart was a life long resident of White Post in Clarke County, VA, and was the descendant of one of the first settlers in the county. She was born on October 15, 1920, and passed away at the age of eighty-five on April 14, 2006.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Taken from the collection

CITE AS: Betty Meade Stuart Collection # 1665, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, VA, USA.

BOX 1

Red Scrapbook – covers local history from 1980s-2000, unnumbered pages

Black Scrapbook – covers local history from 1980-s- 2000, unnumbered pages

News clippings – Boyce, VA

News clippings – Clarke County, VA

News clippings – White Post, VA

News clippings – Byrd Family, 1929-1993

Miscellaneous Items

BOX 2

Scrapbook – black with gold letters, covers 1930s

Scrapbook – black with red and gold medallion on front, covers covered bridges and 1950s