City Directories

Business and Industry

Business and Industry information comes from the Bristol Public Library’s local history files compiled by various researchers. Included are company-provided information, newspaper articles, and various other sources of information.

Ingersoll Rand / Simmons Rand

L.C. King Manufacturing Company

Schools

Schools of the region (More coming soon!)

Founded as Southwest Virginia Institute in Glade Spring in 1884, the college moved to Bristol in 1893 and became Virginia Institute soon afterward. Virginia Institute was renamed Virginia Intermont College in 1908. Virginia Intermont closed in 2014.

Maps

Maps of the region

Ask at the reference desk to access the following maps:

1987 Bristol VA TN
1988 Bristol VA TN
1990 Bristol VA TN Sullivan Co TN Washington Co VA
1990 Tri Cities
1991 Sullivan Co Bristol TN VA
1994 Sullivan Co Bristol TN VA
1998 Bristol VA TN East Sullivan Co TN Washington Co VA
2015 Bristol TN VA Sullivan Co TN Washington Co VA

Cemeteries

Cemetery information comes from the Bristol Public Library’s local history files compiled by various researchers. Cemetery censuses may or may not be complete and may or may not be included in other publications.

East Hill

Zion Lutheran

Family Files

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Family information comes from the Bristol Public Library’s local history files compiled by various researchers. Some are as brief as a one-page family tree and some include more extensive family histories. All information in one file may not refer to the same branch of a family, but may provide clues to researchers of a particular surname.

Yonce
Young

Zeigler

Bible Records

Bible records information comes from the Bristol Public Library’s local history files compiled by various researchers. Most are photocopies of genealogy-related Bible pages for local or regional families.