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By J. J. Prats, May 28, 2011
Burke’s Garden Marker
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1 Virginia, Tazewell County, Burkes Garden — X-12-a — Burke’s Garden
Known for its fertility and great natural beauty, the bowl shaped Burke’s 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
2 Virginia, Tazewell County, Burkes Garden — XL-5 — Site of James Burke’s Garden
Burke’s 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 region’s fertile soil during a survey expedition. Sometime later another group camped . . . Map (db m44663) HM
3 Virginia, Tazewell County, Tazewell — XY-12 — Burke’s Garden
Eight miles east is Burke’s Garden, discovered by James Burke in 1749. Major Lewis’s expedition against the Indians, 1756, camped there, and Burke’s fort was there in 1774. In 1781 Indians raided into Burke’s Garden, carrying off the wife and . . . Map (db m44669) HM
 
 
  
  
 
 
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Mar. 28, 2024