Land has been donated, an architect’s drawing is on hand and a new building for the Surry County Historical Society will be constructed soon. Generous donations are making this huge asset for Surry County come together. The 2.7-acre building site was donated by the late B.S. Seward Jr. and his widow, Barbour. The Historical Society had to move from the old jail behind the courthouse because of planned remodeling of that building. All papers, books and technological equipment are in secure storage, awaiting access by researchers in a spacious, new center. The material includes extensive donated manuscripts and published volumes of indexed wills, deeds, marriages, death records, military logs and genealogies extracted through decades of research.
To learn more about this move, visit the Surry Historical Society’s Website.
Posted by river queen at 12:58 AM PST
