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On Dry Fork Road (Virginia Route 637) at Vivian Lane, on the right when traveling north on Dry Fork Road.
The Civilian Conservation Corps, part of Pres.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, was created in 1933
to employ young men during the Great Depression.
CCC Company 1392 established Camp 54 near Bandy,
about three miles to the west, early in June . . . — — Map (db m228385) HM
On Route 637, 5 miles north of County Route 631, on the right when traveling north.
Just east of here is the last home site and grave of Mathias Harman, Sr. (1736–1832), early explorer, hunter and Revolutionary War veteran. Harman helped establish the first permanent English settlement in eastern Kentucky in 1755. In 1789 he . . . — — Map (db m89746) HM
On South College Avenue (Virginia Route 102), on the right when traveling west.
Bluefield College was chartered in May 1920 as “an institution of learning for the instruction of boys and young men in the various branches of science, literature, philosophy, and the liberal and useful arts.” With strong support from . . . — — Map (db m1824) HM
On Virginia Avenue (U.S. 19) west of Henderson Street, on the right when traveling north.
The place was first known as “Pin Hook.” In 1883 the New River branch of the N. & W. Railroad was completed here and the first coal shipped from the Pocahontas mines. The town of Graham was incorporated in 1884 and named for Thomas . . . — — Map (db m105045) HM
On Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Virginia Avenue) (U.S. 19) at Deaton Street (Virginia Route 749), on the right when traveling east on Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Virginia Avenue).
About 300 African Americans, including some who had been born enslaved, were interred here in the "colored section” of Maple Hill Cemetery between the 1890s and the mid-20th century. African Americans had been a significant presence in Tazewell . . . — — Map (db m188246) HM
On Trail of the Lonesome Pine (Virginia Avenue) (U.S. 19) 0.2 miles north of Meadoes Street, on the right when traveling south.
Tazewell County Va. Area 531 Square Miles. Formed in 1799 from Russell and Wythe, and named for Henry Tazewell, United States Senator, 1794-1799. Beautiful Burk's Garden is in this county.
West Virginia. West Virginia . . . — — Map (db m110080) HM
On Abbs Valley Road (County Route 644) at Wren Drive, on the left when traveling east on Abbs Valley Road.
Erected to the memory of Captain James Moore, a soldier of the Revolution, having commanded a company at Cowpens, Guilford Court House, and Kings Mountain; killed by Indians July 14th, 1786.
To Martha Poague Moore and Jane Moore, . . . — — Map (db m104971) HM
On Abbs Valley Road (County Route 644) at Wren Drive, on the left when traveling east on Abbs Valley Road.
Black Wolf and a group of Shawnee Indians
attacked militia captain James Moore’s nearby
home on 14 July 1786 during a campaign to deter
white settlement of the Ohio Valley region
after the American Revolution. They killed
Moore, children . . . — — Map (db m104966) HM
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
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
On Burkes Garden Road (County Route 623) just north of Mapleton Road.
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
On Cedar Valley Drive (Business U.S. 460) at Central Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Cedar Valley Drive.
Just a short walk from here is the home where a key Virginia political figure of the 1920s and 1930s was born and raised.
George C. Peery was born in 1873, the son of former Confederate surgeon Dr. James Peery. He spent his childhood working at . . . — — Map (db m228446) HM
On Cedar Valley Drive (Business U.S. 460) west of Maple Street, on the right when traveling west.
In 1890, the Goodwin family opened the Cedar Bluff Woolen Mills. The power of the Clinch River's waters was harnessed to operate the carding machines that brushed and cleaned the wool, the spinning machines that spun the wool into yarn, and the . . . — — Map (db m228432) HM
On Cedar Valley Drive (Business U.S. 460) just south of Indian Creek Road, on the left when traveling south.
On September 30, 1864, Union Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge arrived in Cedar Bluff en route from eastern Kentucky to Saltville, Virginia. Burbridge led an army of 5200 men to raid the small town and capture the important saltworks located there. . . . — — Map (db m191831) HM
On Cedar Valley Drive (Business U.S. 460) at Central Avenue, on the right when traveling east on Cedar Valley Drive.
For most of the Civil War, only news of the conflict's chaos ever reached Cedar Bluff. But in the waning days of the war, the conflict reached over the surrounding bluffs and directly impacted the small town. In late September of 1864, Union General . . . — — Map (db m228424) HM
On Cedar Valley Drive (Business U.S. 460) east of River Road, on the right when traveling east.
The steep fall of the Clinch River as it winds through Cedar Bluff made the community an ideal location for water-powered mills and shaped the economy of the town for the next century. Mills have been operating in Cedar Bluff since at least 1842, . . . — — Map (db m228425) HM
On Cedar Valley Drive (Business U.S. 460) just east of Old Kentucky Turnpike (River Road), on the left when traveling east.
Before the railroad, it was the country roads and old turnpikes that brought people to Cedar Bluff. Thanks to hand labor and the strength of oxen, the Norfolk and Western Railway came to Cedar Bluff in 1889. Local residents made extra money by . . . — — Map (db m191837) HM
On Fall Mills Raod (Virginia Route 102) at Mud Fork Road (County Route 643), on the left when traveling south on Fall Mills Raod.
Here at dawn on 20 July 1863 the Confederate cavalry of Maj. Andrew J. May surprised a
Union raiding party led by Lt. Col. Freeman E.
Franklin. Aroused from its bivouac in Brown’s
Meadow, where it was preparing to burn the
Falls Mill, the Union . . . — — Map (db m90596) HM
On Crab Orchard Road (Business U.S. 19) east of B F Buchanan Highway (Virginia Route 16), on the left when traveling south.
During Dunmore’s war (1774) and the
Revolutionary War
(1775–1783) conflicts
between Indians and colonists often intensified
as European powers encouraged Indians from
the Ohio region to attack frontier settlers.
Tensions also sometimes . . . — — Map (db m90654) HM
On Virginia Route 61 at Mill Road, on the right when traveling west on State Route 61.
The Shawver Mill community grew up here around the gristmill that George Shawver built before 1860. William Leffel and Adam Britts soon built sawmills, and the community developed like many in Virginia during the 19th century. By 1911 it sustained a . . . — — Map (db m44808) HM
On Virginia Route 91 just north of Wardell Road (County Route 609), on the right when traveling south.
On the hillside to the west stood Maiden Springs Fort, also known as Reese Bowen’s fort. It was garrisoned in Dunmore’s War, 1774. Reese Bowen, the founder, fought at Point Pleasant, 1774, and was killed at King’s Mountain, 1780. — — Map (db m104951) HM
On Fincastle Turnpike (Business U.S. 460) at Dial Rock Road on Fincastle Turnpike.
The first Court for Tazewell County was held June 1800 at the residence of Henry Harman, Jr. The house site is located two tenths of a mile to the northeast. Harman’s grave is to the north. In the same burying ground is the marked grave of his . . . — — Map (db m44646) HM
On Baptist Valley Road (County Route 631) at Jumps Road (County Route 637), on the left when traveling west on Baptist Valley Road.
During the French and Indian War (1754-1763)
and the American Revolution (1775-1783),
European powers encouraged their Indian
allies to attack frontier settlers. Such conflicts
took place as settlers moved into lands that
once were Indian . . . — — Map (db m89775) HM
On Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 19) at Frog Level Road (Business U.S. 19), on the left when traveling west on Trail of the Lonesome Pine. Reported missing.
On the hillside to the south stood Big Crab Orchard Fort, also known as Witten’s Fort. Thomas Witten obtained land here in 1771 and built the fort as a neighborhood place of refuge. It was garrisoned in Dunmore’s War, 1774. — — Map (db m44614) HM
On Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 460) at Frog Level Road (Business U.S. 19), on the right when traveling west on Trail of the Lonesome Pine.
The Reverend John Kobler preached the first sermon by a Methodist in Tazewell County here in 1793 and received eleven members into the church. The church building, constructed on a parcel of land donated by Thomas Peery, was the first church of any . . . — — Map (db m44644) HM
On County Route 644 just west of Virginia Route 102, on the right when traveling west.
Five miles southwest is Abb’s Valley, discovered by Absalom Looney. James Moore and Robert Poage were the first settlers, about 1770. In July, 1786, Shawnee Indians raided the valley, killing or carrying into captivity the Moore family. Mary (Polly) . . . — — Map (db m1859) HM
On Bramwell Road (County Route 644) 0 miles Virginia Route 102, on the right when traveling west.
This region was visited by the explorer, Dr. Thomas Walker, in 1750. Following a report by Captain I. A. Welch in 1873, the first coal mine was opened here in 1882. Shipment of coal followed in 1883, when the Norfolk and Western Railroad reached . . . — — Map (db m1846) HM
On Centre Street / Bramwell Road (County Route 644) at Falls Mills Road (Virginia Route 102), on the right when traveling west on Centre Street / Bramwell Road.
Pocahontas Cemetery was created after the 13
Mar. 1884 explosion in the Pocahontas East Mine
that claimed the lives of at least 14 miners.
Not until a month later were bodies recovered
from the mine and buried together in what
became the . . . — — Map (db m90592) HM
On Shop Hollow Road (County Route 659) at Boissevain Road (County Route 644) on Shop Hollow Road.
The Southwest Virginia Improvement Company
opened Pocahontas Mine No. 1, the first to
exploit the rich seams of the Pocahontas Coalfield,
in 1882. An extension of the Norfolk and Western
Railway soon followed, bringing industrial development to . . . — — Map (db m104975) HM
On Centre Street (County Route 644) at Water Street on Centre Street.
The Southwest Virginia Improvement Company
first developed a town at Pocahontas in 1881-82
to house its workers and support its mining
efforts. The commercial district lay along Centre
and St. Clair Streets. The 1884 Company Store,
the first . . . — — Map (db m104979) HM
On Front Street (Business U.S. 460) east of Norfolk Street, on the left when traveling east.
Constructed by
Clinch Valley Coal and Iron Company
circa 1890
Acquired by Dr. W. R. Williams
December 26, 1901
Conveyed to the Town of Richlands
1983
this property has been placed on the
National Register of Historic . . . — — Map (db m228461) HM
On 2nd Street at Norfolk Street, on the left when traveling west on 2nd Street.
“No creed but Christ”
Established 1908
has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m228452) HM
On Front Street (Business U.S. 460) east of Virginia Route 67, on the right when traveling east.
On Saturday, October 13, 2018, at 10:40 a.m.,
Richlands Town Manager Timothy Taylor and
Norfolk Southern Corp. Pocahontas Division
Track Supervisor W.T. Hedrick performed the
"striking of the spikes" to commemorate completion
of the Section . . . — — Map (db m228597) HM
On Governor George C. Peery Highway (U.S. 469) at Patterson Street, on the right when traveling west on Governor George C. Peery Highway.
This fertile region was known as Richlands from an early period. In 1782 and later Richlands was a militia station for frontier defense. The town was laid off in 1890, with the coming of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and was incorporated in . . . — — Map (db m104946) HM
On Front Street (Business U.S. 460) at Suffolk Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Front Street.
established 1890
Later site of the Richlands National Bank
established in 1916
Now owned by the
heirs of H. Eldridge Brown,
has been
placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the . . . — — Map (db m228534) HM
On Crab Orchard Road (Business U.S. 460) south of Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 19), on the right when traveling south.
Native Americans established a palisaded town
nearby as early as ca. AD 1400. Thomas Witten
and John Greenup built cabins here ca. 1771.
Conflict between settlers and Indians intensified
early in the 1770s as Native Americans of the
Ohio . . . — — Map (db m228380) 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 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
On Crab Orchard Road (Business U.S. 19/460) at Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 19/460), on the right when traveling south on Crab Orchard Road.
“The Wilderness Road” sums up the iconic meaning of the lives of Daniel Boone and the thousands of settlers who poured after him through the great gap into Kentucky. In its various forms as frontier trail, wagon road, stage route and antebellum . . . — — Map (db m228382) HM
On Gratton Road (Virginia Route 61) at Rocky Dell Road, on the right when traveling east on Gratton Road.
To the north stood Rocky Dell, the home of Samuel Tynes. In July 1863, during the Civil War, Union Col. John T. Toland led a mounted expedition from West Virginia to destroy the Virginia & Tennessee Railroad at Wythesville. The Federals camped . . . — — Map (db m108583) HM
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 19) just west of Annex Avenue, on the left when traveling north.
The town was laid off as the county seat, in 1800, when Tazewell County was formed, on land given by William Peery and Samuel Ferguson. First known as Jeffersonville, the name was changed to Tazewell, for Senator Henry Tazewell. Averell was here in . . . — — Map (db m90624) HM
On Fincastle Turnpike (Business U.S. 19) at Ben Bolt Avenue, on the left when traveling south on Fincastle Turnpike.
On the hillside to the north stood Wynne’s Fort. A settlement was made here as early as 1752. Some years later William Wynne obtained land here and built a neighborhood fort. After 1776 the state government built a fort and garrisoned it. — — Map (db m90625) HM
