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References
- ↑ Alleghany County High School Students: Alleghany County: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Jackson River Vocational Center, Covington, Va., 1976, pp. 41, 45.
- 1 2 Alleghany County High School Students, pp. 41, 45.
- ↑ City of Covington, Virginia: City of Covington Comprehensive Plan, http://www.covington.va.us/pdf/Comprehensive%20Plan/Covingtoncompplan.pdf, September 10, 2002, pp. 7-8.
- ↑ Alleghany Historical Society: Alleghany Comprehensive Plan 2007, http://www.rvarc.org/alleghany/History.pdf, draft dated 27 February 2007, p. 1.
- ↑ Carpenter, Mary Evelyn Harlow (1949). History of the Carpenters of "Fort Carpenter" 1746-1949. Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center. [n.p.] 1949.
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