GORDON ARONHIME COLLECTION
1837-1981 and undated

East Tennessee State University
Archives of Appalachia
Box 70295
Johnson City, TN 37614-0138

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INTRODUCTION

ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Provenance: The Gordon Aronhime Collection was donated to the Archives of Appalachia by Hal Smith, Johnson City, Tennessee on May 21, 1996.

Access: The collection is open for research.

Processing Information: Ned Irwin completed processing, and the collection was opened to researchers in March 1997.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Gordon Aronhime was a native of Roanoke, Virginia and lived most of his life in Bristol, Virginia where he became a well-known local historian and author. He was a graduate of Virginia High School and received an undergraduate and a master's degree in history from East Tennessee State University. During World War II, Aronhime served as a warrant officer with army intelligence in the Caribbean and at the Pentagon. For many years, he was a writer and photographer for the Bristol Herald Courier newspaper, for whom he wrote an extensive series of historical articles on the early settlement period of southwest Virginia and East Tennessee. He died October 25, 1983 in Bristol at the age of 72.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The Gordon Aronhime Collection consists of copies of articles written by Aronhime on the history of southwest Virginia and East Tennessee; correspondence from Aronhime to Hal Smith; printed abstracts of deeds recorded in Sullivan County, Tennessee; and a brief history of the Holston-Clinch region during the 18th century.

Organization: Material is arranged alphabetically by subject and filed chronologically with undated material following dated material.

Important subjects in the collection include:

Abingdon (Va.)--History
Aronhime, Gordon
Brooks, Ebenezer, 1757 or 8-1799
Campbell, David, 1779-1859
Clergy--Tennessee, East
Clergy--Virginia, Southwest
Deeds--Tennessee--Sullivan County
Fort Patrick Henry (Tenn.)
Fortification--Tennessee, East
Fortification--Virginia, Southwest
Long Island Flats (Tenn.), Battle of, 1776
Physicians --Tennessee, East
Physicians--Virginia, Southwest
Shelby, Evan, 1719-1794
Sullivan County (Tenn.)--History
Taxation--Virginia--Washington County--Lists
Tennessee, East--History
Thompson, James Patton, 1747-1811
Virginia, Southwest--History
Washington County (Va.)--History

FOLDER LIST

1. Correspondence to Hal Smith, 1963-76 (includes 1837 document)
2. Sullivan County, Tenn. Abstract of Deed Book 1, 1782 and index to Deed Books 1 and 2, prepared by Aronhime, 1966
3. Sullivan County, Tenn. Abstract of Deed Book 2, prepared by Aronhime, undated
4. Sullivan County, Tenn. Abstract of Deed Book 3, pp. 1-335, prepared by Aronhime, undated
5. Washington County, Va. Abstract of Tithables, 1782 prepared by Aronhime, undated
6. Washington County, Va. Abstract of Tithables, 1783-84, prepared by Aronhime, undated
7. Writings. Clippings of newspaper articles, 1980-81
8. Writings. Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia articles, 1970 and 1976
9. Writings. "History of the Holston-Clinch Region prior to 1800," 1965

INDEX*

* Citation refers to folder in which information on the subject will be found.

Abingdon, Va.--History: 7
Anderson, John (1765-1850): 1
Aronhime, Gordon--Correspondence: 1

--Writings: 1, 7-9

Battle of Long Island Flats (1776): 7
Brooks, Ebenezer: 8

Campbell, David: 7
Cherokee (Indians): 7
Chickamauga campaign, 1779: 7
Clinch River region--History: 7-9
Cochran, Peter: 7

Cochran family: 7
Deeds--Sullivan County, Tenn.: 2-4
East Tennessee--History: 1-4, 7, 9
Fort Patrick Henry: 7
Forts: 7

Historical Society of Washington County, Virginia: 8
Holston River region--History: 7-9
Lynam, Richard: 7
Lynam family: 7
Medicine (18th Century): 8

Ministers (18th Century): 7
Religion (18th Century): 7
Physicians (18th Century: 8
Revolutionary War--History: 1, 7

--Prison camps: 1

Shelby, Evan: 7

Smith, Hal: 1
Snodgrass, David: 7
Southwest Virginia--History: 1, 5-9
Sullivan County, Tenn.--Deeds: 2-4

--History: 1-4, 7

Tennessee--Historiography: 1

--History: 1, 7-8

Thompson, James: 7
Virginia--History: 7-9

--Description and travel: 7

Washington County, Va.--Court: 7

--History: 5-9
--Tax records: 5-6

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