Spahr Family Collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

The copyright status of this collection is unknown. Copyright restrictions may apply. Contact Special Collections and University Archives for assistance in determining the use of these materials.

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Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Spahr Family Collection, Ms2005-005, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Summary

Extent:
0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box
Creator:
Spahr family
Abstract:
The Spahr Family Collection contains records of rent payments at the Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park and clippings about Joel Bush Spahr's landscaping hobby. Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park, run by the Spahrs, operated from 1959 to 1999 on property to the northwest of Blacksburg, Virginia.
Language:
The materials in the collection are in English.
Preferred citation:

Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Spahr Family Collection, Ms2005-005, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.

Background

Scope and content:

The Spahr Family Collection contains newspaper clippings about Joel Bush Spahr and his hobby, landscaping and propagating shrubs. It also contains a ledger book and series of notecards in which the Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park tenants' monthly rent payments were recorded.

Biographical / historical:

Hilltop Gardens Trailer Park was established and constructed by Joel Bush Spahr in 1959. Located to the northeast of Blacksburg on Virginia Route 685, the trailer park offered married students a nice place to live during a time when few apartments existed in Blacksburg. Spahr was interested in gardening and landscaped the lots that the trailers occupied. After Joel Spahr's death in 1977, his wife Christine ran the trailer park until her death in 1990. Their daughters, Sandra Jennings and Janet Spahr, then owned and operated the trailer park until it closed in 1999.

Acquisition information:
The Spahr Family Collection was donated to the Special Collections in 2004.
Processing information:

The processing, arrangement, and description of the Spahr Family Collection was completed in 2005.

Arrangement:

The collection is arranged by format.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard