On Burkes Garden Road (County Route 623) at Back Road (Route 666), on the left when traveling south on Burkes Garden Road.
Known for its fertility and great
natural beauty, the bowl shaped
Burkes Garden is the highest valley
in Virginia. James Burke discovered
it during the 1740s while hunting and
settled here about 1754. After four
years Burke and his family . . . — — Map (db m44656) HM
On Burkes Garden Road (County Route 623) just north of Mapleton Road.
Burkes Garden is named for James Burke who
surveyed the region with James Patton by
1750. According to tradition, Burke buried
some potato peelings in the regions fertile
soil during a survey expedition. Sometime
later another group camped . . . — — Map (db m44663) HM
On Gratton Road (Virginia Route 61) 1.3 miles east of the Tazewell corporate limits, on the right when traveling east.
Eight miles east is Burkes Garden, discovered by James Burke in 1749. Major Lewiss expedition against the Indians, 1756, camped there, and Burkes fort was there in 1774. In 1781 Indians raided into Burkes Garden, carrying off the wife and . . . — — Map (db m44669) HM
