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This valley was one of the most fertile and prosperous in the region during the Civil War. Turkey Cove contained farms large and small, prosperous and failing, and men who weighed their southern-facing economic interests with their traditional …
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Three men who served in Congress were born within a one-mile radius of this point James B. Richmond (1842-1910) was a member of the House of Representatives from 1879 to 1881 as a Democrat. Campbell Slemp (1839-1907), a Republican, was elected…
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The Seminary United Methodist Church was established in 1851 in Turkey Cove. Over the years this structure has served as a church, a school and a Masonic Lodge. Its first of board of trustees included W. N. G. Barron, James F Jones, Henry C. S…
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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…
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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, …
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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 …
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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…
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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…
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John Donelson's Line, surveyed after the Treaty of Lochaber with the Indians, 1770, crossed the road here. This line separated Indian territory from land open to settlement. Violations of the line by settlers contributed to Dunmore's War, 1774.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTP9_benges-gap_Big-Stone-Gap-VA.html
Beginning in 1774, Chief Benge led a part ofthe Shawnee from the Ohio River on raidsalong the frontier. Benge, who was part white and part Cherokee. frequently captured slaves and then resold them; he also seized white women and children who were …
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