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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…
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