Alleghany County Va. Area 458 square miles. Formed in 1822, from Bath, Botetourt and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, 1763.
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When the first train arrived in Jackson's River Station July 10th, 1857, the western terminus of the Virginia Central consisted of little more than a refueling station for wood-burning steam engines and a station house for employees and . . . — — Map (db m107983) HM
Erected by the Clifton Forge
Fire Department
in honor and to the memory of those who rendered unfaltering service
in the World War of 1914 - 18
Alfred, A.J. •
Alley, C. •
Anderson, G.C. •
Anderson, G.K. Jr. •
Andrew, W.A. • . . . — — Map (db m298435) WM
In 1937, after the Clifton Forge chapter of the NAACP decried the lack of outdoor recreation areas for African Americans, the U.S. Forest Service agreed to open a new park here for Black patrons, who were not then welcome in nearby Douthat State . . . — — Map (db m295831) HM
Low Moor Lodge No. 166, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, commissioned this Neo-Classical
Revival-style opera house and lodge, erected in
1905 at a cost of about $40,000. The Masons held
meetings on the third floor from 1906 to 1921.
The . . . — — Map (db m105105) HM
The land upon which Clifton Forge is established, was granted to Robert Gallaspy, from George III, King of England, through Baron DeBotetourt, Governor of the Colony of Virginia. — — Map (db m207679) HM
R. Arliner Young, zoologist, was born in Clifton
Forge. After graduating with a B.A. from Howard
University and an M.S. from the University of
Chicago, she became the first African American
woman to earn a doctorate in zoology when she . . . — — Map (db m207670) HM
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For all who served
That none be forgotten
They served with honor
We honor them — — Map (db m298427) WM
In Memory of
Sergt. Roland Albert Williams, Co. I, 9th Infantry, 2nd Div., A.E.F., Killed in Action, Soissons, France, July 13, 1918. •
Corpl. Rayburn Edison Williams, Co. I, 9th Infantry, 2nd Div., A.E.F., . . . — — Map (db m298423) WM
This park was developed by the National Park Service, Interior Department, through the Civilian Conservation Corps, in conjunction with the Virginia Conservation Commission. It covers nearly 4500 acres and was opened, June 15, 1936. It lies in a . . . — — Map (db m84039) HM
Alleghany County Virginia. 458 Square Miles. Formed in 1822 from Bath, Botetourt, and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann in this county a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, . . . — — Map (db m295844) HM
In December 1863, Union Gen. William W. Averell’s 2,500 cavalrymen raided Salem, Virginia, to disrupt the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad supply line to Confederate Gen. James Longstreet, who was besieging Knoxville, Tennessee. After the raid, . . . — — Map (db m107979) HM
This monument marks the true boundary between Allegheny County, Virginia and Monroe County, West Virginia as determined by a joint commission representing the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of West Virginia on December 2, 1958, and . . . — — Map (db m298544) HM
Just over the state line in West Virginia is the grave of physician and politician John Floyd. He was born in Jefferson County, Virginia (now Kentucky), on 24 Apr. 1783. He married Laetitia Preston in 1804 and received his medical degree from the . . . — — Map (db m295842) HM
Humpback Bridge constructed of hand hewn timbers in 1835 for the James River Kanawha Turnpike Corporation remained in public use until 1929.
In 1953, through the efforts of the Covington Business and Professional Women's Club, the Chamber of . . . — — Map (db m46388) HM
West Virginia. West Virginia was long a part of Virginia. Morgan Morgan began the settlement of the region in 1727. A great battle with the Indians took place at Point Pleasant in 1774. West Virginia became a separate state of the Union in . . . — — Map (db m46376) HM
Welcome to Falling Spring Falls in the Heart of the Alleghany Highlands.
According to the book, “Historical Sketches of the Alleghany
Highlands” by Gay Arritt, 82 acres of land including, the
Falling Spring Falls was granted by . . . — — Map (db m114706) HM
Three miles west at the mouth of Falling Spring Creek was a post garrisoned by militia under Capt. Robert Breckenridge. Washington inspected it in 1756. It survived an attack by Shawnees under Cornstalk during Pontiac's war in 1763. — — Map (db m1832) HM
Through the gap between Peters Mountain on the left and Lick Mountain lies the road to the Kanawha used by emigrants traveling west to the Mississippi basin. The road in the valley below follows the route Washington used when inspecting the forts . . . — — Map (db m77491) HM
Near this spot stood the rude hut in which "Mad Ann" Bailey spent the last years of her life as a scout and Indian fighter. She rendered valuable service to the first settlers of this section — — Map (db m256248) HM
Alleghany County. The Virginia General Assembly formed Alleghany Co. in 1822 from parts of Bath, Botetourt, and Monroe. Within its boundaries are the Towns of Clifton Forge and Iron Gate and the City of Covington, the county seat. Public . . . — — Map (db m295857) HM
Alleghany County. Formed in 1822, from Bath, Botetourt and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, 1763.
Botetourt County. Formed in 1769 from . . . — — Map (db m207845) HM
Australia Furnace, located just east of here, produced pig iron for the Tredegar Iron Works—“Ironmaker to the Confederacy”—during the Civil War. Ira and Edwin Jordan had begun constructing Australia Furnace in 1852; two years later, they put it in . . . — — Map (db m107981) HM
You are standing near the site of the Lucy Selina Furnace, which supplied the Confederacy with pig iron for the production of cannons, munitions, and rails during the Civil War. In 1827, two Scots-Irishmen, Col. John Jordan and John Irvine, built . . . — — Map (db m107982) HM
This furnace was built in 1827 by ironmasters John Jordan and John Irvine and was named for their wives. During the Civil War, iron produced here was used in the manufacture of Confederate Munitions. — — Map (db m46386) HM
During the Civil War, the Jackson River Depot was located here. It marked the western terminus of the Virginia Central Railroad, which extended 200 miles from Hanover Junction north of Richmond. Located just east of the Kanawha Pass of the . . . — — Map (db m107980) HM
Here stand the earliest coke ovens of the Low Moor Iron Company (organized 1873). The ovens converted coal to coke to fuel the company’s blast furnace. The company built more than a hundred such ovens in 1881. By 1923 the Low Moor Iron Company . . . — — Map (db m84051) HM
First called the Church by the Spring, Oakland Grove Church may have been organized as early as 1834, but it was officially established circa 1847 as a mission of Covington Presbyterian Church. A simple brick house of worship constructed during a . . . — — Map (db m46377) HM
In continuous use as a place of worship except for a period between 1861 and 1865 when it was used as a hospital for a contingent of General T.J. (Stonewall) Jackson's troops encamped nearby.
A monument in the churchyard marks the graves of . . . — — Map (db m46379) HM
William Henry Haynes, Sr. donated land for the Oakland Church and cemetery in 1811 to trustees James M. Montague, John P. Haynes, David Williamson and William H. Haynes, Jr. But the deed was not recorded until 1859. The original structure is said . . . — — Map (db m46378) HM
Jackson River Station
Around 1857, the Virginia Central Railroad completed the Jackson River Depot and was the terminus of the railroad for trains and travelers heading west. Travelers had to continue their travels by horseback or . . . — — Map (db m46385) HM
