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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28OA_veterans-memorial_Saint-Paul-VA.html
Dedicated to all
Veterans in all wars
who brought honor
to our country
and promise
to our dreams
All gave some
Some gave all
World War I
Total deaths - 116,516
World War I
Total deaths - 116,516
World War II
Total deaths - 4…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PJU_big-stone-gap_Big-Stone-Gap-VA.html
Big Stone Gap. Big Stone Gap takes its name from a large stone, visible
in a gap. Wagoners who followed Daniel Boone's trail
said: "It's a day's ride from the Big Stone Gap to
Cumberland Gap." Fiddlers, banjo players, and singers
cam…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PJT_big-stone-gap_Big-Stone-Gap-VA.html
Big Stone Gap, originally known as Three Forks, received its carter February 28. 1888. A postoffice was established April 12, 1856. In the early nineties it became the center of iron and coal development. It was the home and workshop of John Fox, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PJP_carl-martin_Big-Stone-Gap-VA.html
Carl Martin was born in Big Stone Gap in April
1906. He grew up in Southwest Virginia and
moved to Knoxville, Tenn., in 1918. He performed
regionally on the guitar, mandolin, bass, and
violin at coal camps, dances, and in traveling
shows. In …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PJF_origins-of-big-stone-gap_Big-Stone-Gap-VA.html
This was the site of the Gilley famly farm,
settled by John and Mary Barger Gilley about
1790. The family cemetery was located just
south at the end of Graveyard Alley. Named
Imboden after Brig. Gen. John D. Imboden when
it was laid out on p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PJ9_southwest-virginia-museum_Big-Stone-Gap-VA.html
This museum is located in a mansion built by
lawyer and industrialist Rufus Ayers, Virginia
attorney general in the 1880s.
Newman and her brother, C. Bascom Slemp, former U.S. Congressman and private secretary
to President Calvin Coolidge,
as…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PJ2_appalachia_Appalachia-VA.html
The town sprang up after the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Southern Railroad made a junction here in 1890. Named for the Appalachian Mountains, in the heart of which it sands, it was incorporated in 1906; the streets were laid out in 1907.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PI5_coeburn_Coeburn-VA.html
The town stands on the site of one of Christopher Gist's camps when he was returning from his exploration of the Ohio Valley about 1750. Big Tom and Little Tom Creeks are named for him and his son. The name of the town comes from W. W. Coe, chief …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHX_wise_Wise-VA.html
Wise. Known variously through the years as Big Glades, Gladesville, and Gladeville, Wise took its current name in 1924 after Henry Alexander Wise, Governor of Virginia before the Civil War. Located on the road between Union
Kentucky and the confe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PHW_the-university-of-virginias-college-at-wise_Wise-VA.html
The college was founded at 1954 as Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, through the efforts of local citizens and University of Virginia officials including President Colgate W. Darden, Jr.; Samuel H. Crockett, extension services d…