ROCKBRIDGE BIBLIOGRAPHY

This page contains a bibliography for Rockbridge County. For used books, try abebooks.com, Powells.com, alibris.com or amazon.com. Some books are only available from University of Virginia Press or Historic Lexington Foundation. Thanks to Duncan Charlton for compiling the list.

Country Roads: Rockbridge County, Virginia. Self-Guided Driving Tours by Katherine Tennery and Shirley Scott, Rockbridge Publishing Company ISBN 13: 9781883522056
 
Roads of Rockbridge County, by Winifred Hadsel and Larry I. Bland.  Book of road maps by Rockbridge Historical Society.  Includes how the roads got their names. Spiral bound. ISBN-13: 9780960368211
Fine Trails of Rockbridge by Steven Carroll and Mark Miller ISBN-13: 9781976329678
Remarkable Rockbridge: The Story of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Charles A. Bodie, Rockbridge Historical Society ISBN 13: 9780977722037
Life in Late Nineteenth Century Rockbridge Baths by Carrie Mast – click on this link: http://tinyurl.com/2fsths8m
Rockbridge County, Virginia by Oren Frederic Morton 1920, The McClure Co. ISBN-13: 9781015404106
Among These Ancient Mountains: The Story of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Anne Drake McClung and Ellen M. Martin, Alone Mill Publishing ISBN 13: 9780967520513
Goshen Pass: A Magical Place in Virginia by Anne Drake McClung and Ellen M. Martin,  Alone Mill Publishing, ISBN 13: 9780967520506
Rockbridge County Log Structures by Anne Drake McClung and Ellen M. Martin, Alone Mill Media ISBN 10: 0967520533
Dried Apples and Other Vanishing Memories of Rockbridge County, Virginia by Anne Drake McClung, Alone Mill Media ISBN 13: 9780983075202
Historical Significance of Rockbridge County, Virginia by James W. McClung, Forgotten Books (may buy directly from HLF website: https://www.historiclexington.org/publications-rescoruces (sicISBN 13: 9781527815018

The Architecture of Historic Rockbridge by J. Daniel Pezzoni, Historic Lexington Foundation (may buy directly from HLF website: https://www.historiclexington.org/publications-rescoruces (sic). ISBN 13: 9780977722044

The Architecture of Historic Rockbridge by Royster Lyle and Sally Munger Mann, Historic Lexington Foundation 1977 (may buy directly from HLF website: https://www.historiclexington.org/publications-rescoruces (sic)
ISBN: 2221141264070

Rockbridge: A Photographic Essay by Bruce Young and Jennifer Law Young, Mariner Publishing ISBN 13: 9780976823841
The Maury River Atlas: Historic Sites on the North River Navigation by W. E. Trout, Virginia Canals & Navigations Society ISBN 13: 9781888838213
The Upper James Atlas: Rediscovering River History in the Blue Ridge and Beyond by W. E. Trout III, Virginia Canals & Navigations Society ISBN 10: 1888838094
The Great Valley Road: Shenandoah Landscapes from Prehistory to the Present edited by Warren R. Hofstra and Karl Raitz, Univ. of Virginia Press ISBN 13: 9780813931906

The Great Wagon Road: From Philadelphia to the South; How Scotch-Irish and Germanics Settled in the Uplands by Parke Rouse, Jr., Dietz Press ISBN-13: ‎ 978-0875170657087517065X

The Beauty of the Land: Pierre Daura’s Vision of Virginia by William M. S. Rasmussen, Virginia Historical Society  ISBN 13: 9780945015260 (Pierre Daura lived and worked in Rockbridge Baths for much of his life).

Dirty Knees: A Gardening Book for Rockbridge County Virginia by Nancy E. Johnston, Nancy Johnston Books, 1995 ISBN 13: 9780964599444

Return to Fuller Street by Beverly Tucker (Interviews with residents of Lexington’s Diamond Hill neighborhood) (may buy directly from HLF website: https://www.historiclexington.org/publications-rescoruces (sic)
ISBN13: 9780999288580

Rockbridge in 733 Vignettes by Robert Keefe (Historic snippets about interesting people, places and events; check Historic Lexington Foundation website first)
ISBN 13: ‎ 979-8218413965