The Bland County Historical Society is open on Fridays from 9-4. We have lots of interesting Christmas gifts for you and your Bland County relatives, near and far.
New items this year are:
·
Beautiful 2015
BCHS Calendar featuring the
Home Sweet Homes of Bland County
·
Christmas
ornaments, featuring the Big Walker Lookout Tower and the Big Walker
Mountain Tunnel on I-77. We
still have available ornaments from previous years of the Bland County
Courthouse, the old Bland County Jail, the historic Wolf Creek Bridge in
Rocky Gap, and a replica of Sharon College.
·
Sharon Puckett
Prints of scenes of Mechanicsburg (new this year); Bland, Ceres, Rocky
Gap and Bastian.
Some
of the other gifts also available are:
·
The BCHS
Afghan featuring a map of Bland County with place names indicated and
bordered by four seasonal scenes of the county painted by Pat Turner
·
Bland County
Cups and Hats
·
Images of Bland County,
A Pictorial History by Bill Archer
·
Our two
history books:
Family Histories of Bland County
(2013) and The History of Bland
County (1961)
·
Our Historical
Glimpses of Bland County:
The Lynching of Ivy Jackson, 3 Hots and A
Cot, and Sharon College
·
Numerous
resource books for genealogists.
To see a complete
listing of the items for sale at the Bland County Historical Society
Office located in the old jail next to the Bland Courthouse, see our web
page at
www.blandcountyhistsoc.org or see us on FB. There is an order form
and instructions for ordering by mail if you cannot come by the office.
You may also call us at 276-688-0088.
We will be open tevery Friday between now and December 19, including Black Friday, the
day after Thanksgiving from 9 AM to 4 PM.
On December 19, 2014 at 4pm, we will be
closing the Society Office for the winter.
Watch for an announcement of our re-opening date in April, 2015.
While we are closed, we will continue to take orders and answer
your genealogical research questions.