We are now the owners of a Wythe County Blanket Chest! Circa 1820. It is currently being displayed at the Thomas J. Boyd Museum. Stop by to see it!
Among the Wythe County Historical Society’s collections is an original copy of a Fraktur.
Frakturs were birth and baptism certificates. They were popular among early German-speaking settlers of Wythe County. It was the custom to hire a scrivener to make a decorated manuscript to celebrate a new birth and a child’s baptism. Possibly 90 percent of Frakturs came from Pennsylvania and the tradition in Wythe County was probably influenced by former ties to Pennsylvania’s German-speaking communities.