The Alleghany Historical Museum will re-open Thursday April 2 at 10:00, after being closed for the winter months. The first exhibit of the year will be called Faith of Our Fathers, and will focus on community church histories.The Museum is open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 10:00-5:00 and is located at 7 North Main Street in Sparta, across from the Alleghany County Courthouse.

The Museum is asking for loans and donations for the exhibit. The exhibit will begin with items already in the collection of the Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society, but is expected to expand over the coming months with the help of the community. Please bring items for display during the Museum’s regular operating hours.

AHGS welcomes the involvement of every citizen of the county. If you’d like to volunteer or contribute to Alleghany Historical Museum, the Society is a certified 501(c)(3) organization and donations are tax deductible.

In an effort to reach potential new members, at the last meeting, the members of Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society voted to move the meeting date and time from the fourth Sunday of the month at 2pm, to the second Friday of the month at 4pm. It is hoped that more people would be able to attend the weekday meetings. The last Sunday meeting will be April 26 at 2pm, and the first Friday meeting will be May 8 at 4pm at the Alleghany Public Library.

Saturday, May 9, 2015 – 1:15 PM – Troutdale Trading Post

Don’t miss a tour of Troutdale, Virginia, the highest incorporated town in Virginia and the first town in Virginia to have a female mayor!

Learn about: buildings that still stand and buildings that are no longer there; the trains, train station, and train tracks that are gone; the chartering of Troutdale in 1906. Listen to tidbits from stories by Sherwood Anderson, a nationally known author and Troutdale’s most famous resident. See copies of photographs from various times in Troutdale’s history. Spend about 3 hours of your Saturday afternoon and become an expert on the history of a really neat town.

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Have questions or need more information? Contact the tour guide, Ed Clayton at veclayton@gmail.com or call Ed at 919-467-1082.

Michael McFadyen Scuba Diving Web Site

New River at the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System site

National Committee for the New River

General JEB Stuart SCV Camp 1598

The Appalachian Power Company Along the New River: The Defeat of the Blue Ridge Project in Historical Perspective by Robert Seth Woodard Jr.

The North Carolina Society of Historians awarded several honors to the Alleghany Historical – Genealogical Society, Saturday, October 19 at its annual Awards Banquet in Mooresville, North Carolina.

AHGS won a Joe M. McLauren Newsletter Award for our quarterly newsletter and a Paul Green Multi Media Award for our program: Alleghany Memories- five episodes that featured Jeanette Anders, Pauline Meals,  Walter Bell, the New Haven Quilters and the History of Alleghany Cares.

Alleghany Memories won an additional Paul Green Award for four episodes produced in collaboration with the  Marine Corps League, Walter Frank Osborne, Jr. Detachment 1298, that featured local USMC veterans, Bobby Irwin, J.T. Pardue, Bill Sebastion and Charles Pugh.

Alleghany Memories is available for viewing any time at www.actv.me.

Of 81 eligible nominations, 22 projects were awarded Paul Green Awards and of 20 eligible nominations, 7 won Joe M. McLauren newsletter awards.

Thank you to the NCSH, its Board and the Judges for these honors!