Washington County Historic Structures Survey Project Papers
Scope and Contents
The Washington County Historic Structure Survey Project Papers consist of survey forms, photocopies of selected photographs, and 9 computer discs containing an information database that was compiled between 1983 and 1986 during the Washington County Survey Project. Several types of important information for each building were recorded during the survey including historic name, common name, name and address of the current owner, date of construction, source of construction date, present and original uses of the structure, construction details, building plan, and architectural style.
In addition to these records, there are 186 survey forms, maps, and photocopies of newsclippings that were collected during a previous survey of Washington County buildings. The survey forms are arranged alphabetically by reference to where the geographic location appears on U. S. Geological Survey topographic quadrangle maps, then alphabetically by street/address name within the geographic location. The documents of the previous survey are located at the end of the collection and are arranged sequentially by survey number. This earlier survey documented many of the oldest homes and structures in Jonesborough, Johnson City, and Washington County such as the Chester Inn and DeVault Tavern.
Dates
- 1983-1986
Creator
- Washington County Historic Structures Survey Project (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Extent
3.25 linear feet
3.25 linear feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The records are arranged into two series as follows: Series 1, Survey Forms and Related Records, 1983-1986, and Series 2, Computer Discs, 1983-1986. Note: The data from the earlier survey is not contained on the discs.
Technical Access Requirements
The computer discs are 3.5 inch IBM-compatible floppy disks. The archives does not have equipment capable of reading these discs. These discs are copies of the originals (not held by the archives, whereabouts unknown) which were done in DB Masters format on an Apple 2E computer.
Method of Acquisition
The computer disc copies of the Washington County Historic Structures Survey Records were donated to the Archives of Appalachia October 1, 1986 by Dr. Dale Royalty, associate professor, Department of History, East Tennessee State University. After the completion of the survey, the manuscript survey forms, photographs, and negatives were transferred to the Tennessee Historical Commission (THC), Nashville, Tennessee for microfilming. The photographs and negatives remain in the possession of THC, while the manuscript survey forms were returned to Royalty, who in turn donated them to the archives in October 1989.
Processing Information
The collection was opened to researchers in October 1989. Melissa Garant, Scott Schwartz, Ed Speer, and Becky Tuthill completed processing in 1990.
- Floppy disks Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Historic buildings -- Tennessee, East Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Maps Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Publications (document genre) Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Washington County (Tenn.)--History Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of Appalachia Repository
PO Box 70295
344 J.L. Seehorn Jr. Rd.
Johnson City TN 37614 USA
423-439-4338
423/439-4338
archives@etsu.edu