Application for permission to publish can be sent by request. The Handley Regional Library Archives is jointly operated by the Handley Library Board and Winchester-Frederick County Historical Society. The Archives Room houses an extensive and long standing collection of materials on the people, places and events of the Lower Shenandoah Valley from 1732 to the present. An expanded bibliography which includes manuscript and published resources to subjects of major interests in our holdings. The Archives holds over 600 linear feet of manuscripts and ephemera, including account books, funeral home records, diaries, correspondence, and historical and genealogical research items.
Some inventories are available online.
Primary and secondary source material includes abstracts of county records, reminiscences of citizens and cemetery records. An extensive collection of local histories, genealogical records, and books devoted to specific families is available. The census collection includes all available United States census records for the lower Shenandoah Valley from 1790 to 1920. Indexes for Virginia and West Virginia provide access to the census rolls, 1810-1870, 1890. Included are three maps of the area by Jedediah Hotchkiss, Stonewall Jackson's mapmaker.