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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1Z5E_royal-oak-presbyterian-church_Marion-VA.html
According to tradition, the Upper Holston
congregation of the Presbyterian Church was
organized in 1776 on John Campbell's land at
Royal Oak and built a log structure there.
This was one of the first denominations to
organize in present-day S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PNZ_history-of-saltville-valley_Saltville-VA.html
The Saltville Valley contains fossils of large mammals that lived in North America about 13,000 years ago (during Pleistocene times). Fossils discovered here show that this valley has provided a rich environment for thousands of years. Many life f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMU_sulphur-springs-church-and-campground_Chilhowie-VA.html
Across the highway was a log meeting house and campground visited by Bishop Francis Asbury and early Methodist circuit riders. On this site Col. W. P. Thompson gathered his regiment in 1812. Here Elizabeth Henry Russell often worshipped and this w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PMS_saltville_Saltville-VA.html
Saltville is named for the vast salt deposits
that exist under this valley. The commercial
salt industry began developing here in the
1780s. During the Civil War, Saltville played
a vital role in providing salt for the Confederacy, On 2 Oct. 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM163U_battle-at-cedar-branch_Saltville-VA.html
You are standing on the Confederate battle line that stretched for more than two miles along the bluffs on this side of the North Fork of the Holston River. The Cedar Branch Creek flows into the Holston River near the ford on the North Road to Sal…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV0E_transportation-through-the-ages_Chilhowie-VA.html
Roads were only paths made by walking and from the passage of wagons and buggies. When the first cars came into the area, the roads were "pot-hole after pot-hole." Sam Bonham told of riding his motorcycle around 1918 to Knoxville, Tennessee, dodgi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUXH_chilhowie_Chilhowie-VA.html
Sidebar. On December 1, 1864, Union Gen. George Stoneman led 5,700 cavalrymen eastfrom Knoxville, Tennessee, to destroy iron-, lead-, and saltworks in Virginia that wereessential to the Confederate war effort. After actions at Kingsport and Bristo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX7_town-house_Chilhowie-VA.html
As early as 1754 a house was built on this hill, and was used as a fort and meeting place by settlers. This is the site of the first settlement in this region.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMUX6_farthest-west-1750_Chilhowie-VA.html
Near here, in 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker, on his first journey southwest, assisted Samuel Stalnaker in building his cabin. At that time his was the farthest west settlement.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMURQ_chilhowie_Chilhowie-VA.html
About 1748, Colonel James Patton patented land here and reportedly hoped this site would one day become a town. The region became known as Town House for a house known by this name that stood nearby. By the Revolutionary War, a settlement of the s…