Pulaski County, VAGenWeb


Pulaski County, Virginia was formed in 1839 from parts of Montgomery and Wythe Counties. The County seat is Pulaski.

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Your Pulaski County, 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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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

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Pulaski County Clerk
45 3rd St. NW, Suite 101
Pulaski, VA 24301-0270
Telephone: (540) 980-7825
Records that are available in County Clerk's Office : Marriage, land, probate records, from 1882, divorce, probate, civil court, AND land records from 1839
For Birth or Death records from the State of Virginia click here for the form to mail in

 

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 BIBLE RECORDS

 

ALLISON Family Bible 

 CADDALL CADDALE Bible

 CADDALL JORDAN MOORE BEAR Family Bible

 CARTER Family Bible

 

 CLARK Family Bible

 COVEY Family Bible

 CULLEN Family Bible, 1822

 Page 1
 Page 2
 Page 3
 Page 4
 Page 5
 Page 6

Contributed by Oscar Nuckols
 

HOWARD Family Bible 

 SAYERS Family Bible


BIOGRAPHIES

 Dandrdge AKERS

 Jesse Nicolas BOSANG

William Henry BOOK

1863-1946

 Chester BULLARD (1809-1893)

 Dr. William Wamach CHAFFIN

 Lynch A. CURRIN

 Rev. John David HAYMAKER

 Samuel Need HURST

 John T. LOVING

  John Alfred MOREHEAD

 James WALKER

 Hardesty's 1884 Edition of Biographies & History for Pulaski County


 BIRTHS

 1856

 1859

 

 BLACK HISTORY

 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

Timeline of Black History at Virginia Tech 

   

BOOKS & DIARIES

 The Wilderness Road

By Robert Kincaid, 1947
An Offsite Link

 

Archibald Thompson Diary

Mainly Early Montgomery County

 

Regional E-Books, Journal Articles, and Book Sellers - New River Notes 

An Offsite Link

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

 Diary of Hannah Walton Sanders

 1911 Booklet on History of Pulaski County

 Pulaski County
A Historic and Descriptive Sketch, 1907

 Mary Heathcote Thomas Journal's

1915 - 1918

 Diary of Professor Josephus Newton Davis

An Offsite Link

BUSINESS

 Acid Plant

Allisonia Mines 

Coal & Iron Mines In Pulaski County 

 Chataigne's Virginia Gazetteer
and Classified Business Directory
1888-1889 for
Pulaski County

An Offsite Link by Jeffrey C. Weaver

 Thomson's Mercantile and Professional Directory - Virginia - 1851

An Offsite Link by Jeffrey C. Weaver

 Bigbie's Tavern in Newbern

Dobson Hosiery Mills 

Dora Furnace 

Funeral Homes of Pulaski County 

 

 Hospitals of Pulaski County

 

 Doctors and Dentists recalled in 1927

Newspapers of Pulaski County 

 Pulaski County Courthouse, 1911

 Pulaski Development Company

 Pulaski, 1909

 

 Pulaski Iron Company

Pulaski Veneer Corporation 

Railroads 

Reed Furnace 

Seagle Funeral Home History

.pdf Compliments of Todd Bruce 

 Slabtown Water Mill


 CEMETERIES

 Click here for an alphabetical Master list of burials

 Pulaski County Cemeteries Online

Now with actual photographs of tombstones

 The Political Graveyard - Pulaski County

Funeral Homes of Pulaski County 

 Cemeteries within 20 mile radius of Dublin

 

 CENSUS

 

1840 Census of Pensioners - Military

An Offsite Link

1840 Pulaski County Census

Part 1

Part 2

Transcribed and provided by Don W. Rubarts

 

The 1860 Pulaski County, Virginia Census

Off site link by Jeffrey C.  Weaver

Census Information Page

 An Offsite Link

 

1880 Census

An Off link Site

 Partial Pulaski County 1920 Census

 S&K Census Indexes for VA

 Electronic census spreadsheets

An Off Site Link

 USGenWeb Census Project


 CHURCHES

All off site links

 Fairlawn Baptist Church


 Drapers Valley, Pulaski (Presbyterian Church) 1854-1875


Scroll down the page until you see the title and click on the batch number C504741

 Trinity Baptist Church

Pulaski Presbyterian Church 

 Jordan's Chapel

Established 1877

 A list of Pulaski Churches and phone numbers

Thornsprings United Methodist Church
5670 Thornspring Church Road
Dublin, VA 24084
540 980-6549 

   

 COMMUNITIES

 Allisonia

AKA Reid Island

 Back Creek

Belspring

AKA Churchwood & Bell Spring 

 Black Hollow

 Delton

 

Draper

AKA Lucretia & Tate

 

Dublin

AKA Dublin Depot

 

Dunkards Bottom

AKA Mahaniam

 

Fairlawn

AKA North Radford & Brooklyn

 

 Hiwassee

AKA Wasse

 Little Creek

 Martin's Tank

 

Max Creek

AKA Mack's Creek

 

New River

AKA New River Depot

 

Newbern

AKA Glade Springs

 Parrott

 Pulaski Town Incorporated

 Robinson Tract

 

Snowville

AKA Foundry & Humility

Early History of Snowville, By Louise B. Allison

   

 COURT DOCUMENTS

 Land History of Little Walker Creek

An offsite Link

 Pulaski County Circuit Court Records Search

*An Off site link - This is for more recent documents

Statement swearing in Thomas D Hudson as Justice of the Peace for Pulaski County, 1893 

Contributed by: Charlotte Albert
 
GOVERNMENT OF PULASKI COUNTY TIDBITS

 Clerks of Pulaski County 1839-1980

 Commissioners of Revenue 1839-1980

 Postmasters of Snowville

 Pulaski County Supervisors (1870- 1980)

Sheriffs of Pulaski County 1839-1980

 Treasurers of Pulaski County 1870-1980


 DEATHS

 

 The Southwest Times Historic Newspaper Archive for Southwest Virginia

 Funeral Homes of Pulaski County


 DISASTERS, MURDER & MAYHEM

 Valley View Apartment Explosion, April 27, 1956

John MOULTER Murder November 14, 1906

 

 EDUCATION/SCHOOLS

 1930 Pulaski High School Juniors and Seniors

1923 Pulaski County High School Annual

Appalachian Rural Education Network

Early Education in Pulaski County 

 Snowville Early Schools

 Pulaski County School Collection of Miss Margaret E. Holmes, Teacher

Historic Photo Collection of Pulaski Schools

This is an Offsite link to the Library of Virginia - You must enter Pulaski as your search term 

 Honor Roll of New River Colored School, 1923

 

Sample of the 1911 Pulaski County, Virginia School Census

An Offsite Link by Jeffrey C. Weaver

School Desegregation and Civil Rights Stories:
Pulaski County, Virginia
 

   

 FAMILIES

ALL Off Site Links

Families of AKERS - ALLEN - AUSTIN - BANES - BRUNK - CHANDLER - COMBS - COLLINS - CORDER - DAVIS - FAW - HAMBLIN - HANCOCK - HARRELL - HUNTER -JOHNSTON - KING - KITTS - LAMBERT - MEADOWS - MILLIRONS - MONTGOMERY - MOODY - MORRIS - PARCELL - PARSELL - PAULEY - PEGRAM - RITTER - TICKLE - UNDERWOOD - WHITE  

 CECIL Family

CLOYD Family 

COMBS Family 

 DUNCAN Family

FARMER Family

 GUNN Family

HURST Family

   

 Roseberry-Sutton; Keister-Foster and Howell-Burnop Families

 STAFFORD Family

THORNTON Family 

 

 HISTORY

 Historical Markers of Pulaski County

 History of Pulaski County

 History of The New River

Tracing the New Rivers 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

 Library of Virginia

 Pulaski County Library

An Offsite Link

 Library of Congress


 LINKS

Genealogical Databases of

Old Prison Records


An Offsite Link

 Statistics on Pulaski County

An Offsite Link

New River Notes

An Offsite Link

 MAPS

 1908 Downtown Pulaski Map

 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

 Downtown Pulaski in 1927

 

1864 Map of Pulaski County

Includes landowners and landmarks 

 

 A map of early Pulaski County landmarks

Virginia 1861 Map 

1884 Map that includes Pulaski County

  1895 Map of Pulaski County

An Offsite Link

 1915 Map of Western Virginia 

An Offsite Link

 Virginia County outline map

Pulaski County Road Names

An Offsite link 

 Pulaski County, VA
Interactive Geographic Information System

An Offsite link 

USGS National Mapping System

 U.S. Census Maps 1790-1930

Geostat - University of Virginia Library 

 Historical County Lines


 MARRIAGES

 

 Pulaski County Marriages 1838-1845

An Offsite Link

Year 1899 Marriages

Part 1

Part 2 

 Year 1900 Marriages for Pulaski County


 MILITARY

Virginia Civil War Page

An Offsite Link

National Archives Records Administration

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

 WWII Deaths in Pulaski County, Virginia with photographs and obituaries

 45th Virginia Infantry Roster

 

World War II Enlistments for Pulaski County, Virginia 


 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

 Pulaski County, Virginia WWII Deaths

(scroll down the page)
An Offsite Link by Jeffrey C. Weaver

 MUSEUMS

 

 Wilderness Road Regional Museum

Raymond F. Ratcliffe Memorial Museum
Pulaski Railroad Station, P.O. Box 169, 124 S. Washington Ave., Pulaski 24301
(540) 980-2055


 NEWSPAPERS

 Southwest Times

 Roanoke Times - New River Valley Edition

 The Southwest Times Historic Newspaper Archive for Southwest Virginia

Actual images of newspaper articles


OBITUARIES

SW Times Newspaper Obituary Archive 
 

 Sarah GIBBS

1801 - 1900

 Frank P. ASKEW, 1920

 

Dr. Fugate Clark, 1889

Submitted by: Barbara Curry

 Michael Jordan WYSOR, 1936


 ORGANIZATIONS

New River Historical Society Home page

 
American Legion Post 7, 1924

The Women's Club
Pulaski, Va
1928-1929

 Kiwanis in Pulaski County, chartered 1921

 

 Friends of Claytor Lake


 PENSIONS

   

 The 1890 Union Veterans Census for Southwest Virginia Counties

An Offsite Link

 PHOTOGRAPHS

 Pulaski County Family Photographs

 Clyde's Mystery Photos 

 Pulaski County Mystery Photographs - Can you identify any???

VA Tech Image Collection

Great site!! 

 Gallimore & McGee Family Images

An offsite Link

 Nostalgic Photos of Pulaski County, Virginia

 PLACES

 Pulaski County Poorhouse

Towns, Cemeteries, Churches, Schools and Historical places in Pulaski County 

 Rookwood Manor

Built by Frances and Sarah Kent in 1875

 POSTCARDS

 Early Photographs & Postcards of Pulaski County from NRHS Collection

 Alum Springs

Submitted by: Steve Whitt

 

Aerial View of Business Section 

Submitted by: Steve Whitt

 Bertha Zinc Works

Broadway, VA 

 1890 Photo

Submitted by: Steve Whitt
 

Esso Motel

Submitted by: Steve Whitt
 

 

Little River Dam

Submitted by: Steve Whitt

 

Mountain Spring

Submitted by: Steve Whitt

 

Peaks Knob

Submitted by: Steve Whitt

Pulaski Downtown Main Street, 1930 

 Pulaski City First County Court held, 1895

 

Pulaski County Courthouse

Submitted by: Steve Whitt

Pulaski High School, 1921

 Pulaski Hotel

Submitted by: Steve Whitt

 

Pulaski Municipal Airport

Submitted by: Steve Whitt

 Pulaski, 2nd Street in the early 1900's

   

 Pulaski National Bank Building, early 1900's

 Tyler Drug Store

VA Maid Hosiery Mills

Photo by David Kent 

Wysor Home 1909 

   

 RECREATION

Pulaski Baseball 
1947-2001

 Calfee Park

 Claytor Lake State Park

Gatewood Park 

 

 New River Valley Speedway

 The New River Valley Fair Website

 Randolph Park

 The New River Trail State Park


 TAXES & VOTING

 1904 Voters 
Registration
New River 

 1904 Voters 
Registration
Bellsprings 

 1902 Voter Registration List


 WILLS

Check the Archive section here for MANY Pulaski County Wills 

Francis ALLISON, Sr., 1865

Francis ALLISON, 1879

Charles ALLISON, 1846

 James CALFEE, 1865

 Thomas CLOYD, 1842

 

 Francis GODBEY, 1864

 Robert MARTIN, 1856

 Elizabeth Gunn SUTTON, 1909

   

 Henry Wysor, 1840

An Off Site Link

 Pulaski County, Virginia Wills 1838-1859

An Off Site Link
 

PULASKI COUNTY RESOURCES

 County Phone Numbers

Town of Dublin Website 

New River Valley Airport

 Town of Pulaski Website

Pulaski County Chamber of Commerce  

 Pulaski County School System

 Pulaski County Sheriffs Office

 Pulaski Blue Jays Baseball Team

 Virginia Cooperative Extension

 The Pulaski Farmers' Market is held from May through October at the historic Depot in Downtown Pulaski. Hours of operation are Saturday from 8 AM to 1 PM.

 Visitors Guide to the New River Valley

 New River Valley Fair


 GENEALOGY HELPERS LINKS

 Geographic Nameserver

Put in a city name and find out what county it is in

 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


Shortcuts to Neighboring Counties
Giles Co
Bland Co
Montgomery Co
Wythe Co
Carroll Co
Floyd Co

Click here to view Parent Counties

 

 
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