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The Bland County Historical Society is located in the "old jail building" on the courthouse square. Volunteers are at the jail each Friday for research and shopping, and on other days by appointment. Phone (276) 688-0088 |
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Bogle Library and Archives
Index of Bogle Library Holdings
In an effort to inform you of our research resources, we have
put an
Index of Bogle Library Holdings
on this website. It is in
Adobe pdf format and is fully searchable.
If you find items in the index that you would like to examine,
please stop by the Bogle Library or call us to do some research for you.
Index of Historical Society Obituary Holdings
Updated
We have also
put an
Index of Obituary Holdings
on this website. It is in
Adobe pdf format.
If you find an obituary in the index that is of interest,
please stop by the Bogle Library, or
e-mail us
if you would like a copy.
History
of Newspapers in Bland County
Dedication of the Bogle Library and Archives September 18, 2010
Estelle Parke Bogle (1920 – 2008)
At the November 12, 2009 Board of Directors meeting of the Bland County
Historical Society, a motion was made, seconded, and unanimously passed
that the Bland County Historical Society Library and Archives would
henceforth be called the BOGLE LIBRARY. This library will not only
contain the Bogle Collection, but all the accumulated collections and
archives that have previously been received, and that will be received
in the future. There will, however, be a separate data listing to
distinguish Parke’s collection from all others, but all items will be
shelved as one.
Estelle Parke Coleman Bogle was born March 26, 1920 in Bland County,
Virginia. She was the daughter of Clyde Dallas Coleman and Gladys Ruth
Mustard Coleman. Parke married John Lockhart Bogle, Jr. on January 14,
1938. He was a farmer. They had four children:
Janeth Carol in 1939, John Thomas in 1942, James Dewey in 1943,
and David Garth in 1946. John Lockhart Bogle died in 1970, and on April
9, 1975 Parke married George William Bogle, Jr. in Pulaski. He was born
May 15, 1918 in Parkersburg WV and died May 28, 2008.
She was a mother to 4, grandmother to 9.
Parke wrote ten or more
books published
by Mountain Press in Tennessee. Proceeds from the sale of her books go
to the Bland County Historical Society and the Mechanicsburg Cemetery
Association.
Parke not only owned volumes of history on about every county in
Southwest Virginia, she also owned almost every record (on CD format)
ever made by John Denver. As Parke would work on genealogy on her
computer, she would have her beloved John Denver singing right along
with the tapping of the computer keys.
The BCHS was extremely fortunate to receive Parke’s genealogy and book
collection in the summer of 2008. Her last wishes were for the Bland
County Historical Society to catalog and make available to the public
her many years of research. The
Bogle collection contains books, ancestry lists, photographs, emails,
letters, maps, birth & death certificates, wills, marriage licenses,
obituaries,
newspaper articles,
war records, family group sheets, genealogical records and other
historical documents.
(excerpted from remarks made by Brenda King
at dedication)
You may read the full report of the dedication of
Bogle Library complete with photographs by following this
link:
Report on the HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP MEETING,
09/18/2010.
