Historical Markers and War Memorials in Wise County, Virginia

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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Wise County, Virginia

1 ► Virginia, Wise County, Appalachia — X-23 — Appalachia —

The town sprang up after the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and Southern Railroad made a junction here in 1890. Named for the Appalachian Mountains, in the heart of which it stands, it was incorporated in 1906; the streets were laid out in 1907. . . . — — Map (db m90888) HM

2 ► Virginia, Wise County, Big Stone Gap — Big Stone Gap — The Crooked Road — Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail —

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 . . . — — Map (db m90913) HM

3 ► Virginia, Wise County, Big Stone Gap — KA-11 — Big Stone Gap —

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, . . . — — Map (db m90914) HM

4 ► Virginia, Wise County, Big Stone Gap — KA-17 — Carl Martin — Early Music Pioneer —

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 . . . — — Map (db m90912) HM

5 ► Virginia, Wise County, Big Stone Gap — Christ Episcopal Church — Founded 1890 — Built 1892 —

has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m228708) HM

6 ► Virginia, Wise County, Big Stone Gap — KA-8 — Donelson’s Indian Line —

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. — — Map (db m44396) HM

7 ► Virginia, Wise County, Big Stone Gap — KA-12 — Origins of Big Stone Gap —

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 . . . — — Map (db m90891) HM

8 ► Virginia, Wise County, Big Stone Gap — I-2 — Southwest Virginia Museum —

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 . . . — — Map (db m90897) HM

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9 ► Virginia, Wise County, Coeburn — X-20 — Coeburn —

The town stands on the site of one of Christopher Gist’s camps when he was returning from his exploration of the Ohio Valley about 1750. Big Tom and Little Tom Creeks are named for him and his son. The name of the town comes from W. W. Coe, chief . . . — — Map (db m90868) HM

10 ► Virginia, Wise County, Norton — X-22 — Benge’s Gap —

Beginning in 1774, Chief Benge led a part of the Shawnee from the Ohio River on raids along 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 . . . — — Map (db m44232) HM

11 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — Daniel Webster Dotson —

Entering the town of Lieutenant Daniel Webster Dotson, born Sept 25, 1920; died May 2, 1953. A veteran of the Korean War and World War II. Virginia’s second-highest decorated soldier and Wise County’s most decorated soldier in the Korean War. — — Map (db m90777) HM WM

12 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — Daniel Webster Dotson —

13 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — Daniel Webster Dotson —

14 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — Dotson-Mullins Field —

Capt. Jefferson Scott Dotson - USAF Aug 06, 1944 – Aug 09, 1969 1st Lt. Daniel Lee Mullins - USA Oct 21, 1943 – Aug 31, 1967 Scott and Danny, graduating classmates of 1962, were excellent students as well as outstanding athletes . . . — — Map (db m228664) HM WM

15 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — KA-20 — Francis Gary Powers — U2 Pilot —

Francis Gary Powers (1929-1977) was raised here in Pound and graduated from Grundy High School. Powers enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1950 after graduating from Milligan College in Tennessee. In 1956, the Central Intelligence Agency . . . — — Map (db m90846) HM

16 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — XB-27 — Leonard Woods Lynched —

Leonard Woods, a black coal miner from Jenkins, KY, was lynched near here on the night of 29-30 Nov. 1927. Officers had arrested Woods for allegedly killing Herschel Deaton, a white man from Coeburn, VA, and had taken him to the Whitesburg, KY jail. . . . — — Map (db m217840) HM

17 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — XB-7 — Pound Gap —

Pound Gap probably was named for nearby grain pounding mill. Christopher Gist, returning from the Ohio River where he surveyed land for the Ohio Company, crossed the gap in 1751. During the Civil War, Pound Gap gained strategic importance as a . . . — — Map (db m90797) HM

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18 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — Pound High School —

High School Principals in The Pound Christopher Gist High School (Present-day Town Hall) 1924-1930 Luther Addington • 1930-1953 O.M. Morris Pound High School 1953-1964 O.M. Morris • 1964-1972 Marvin B. Barker • 1972-1974 Danny C. . . . — — Map (db m228655) HM

19 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — Pound War Memorial —

In Honor of Fallen Comrades World War 1 Edward Stidham • Houston Meade • James S. Hamilton WWII Everette Balthis • Ira Short • Maynard Stallard • Bart Belcher Jr. • Clifford Bentley • Harold Bentley • Ralph Hubbard • Milton . . . — — Map (db m228666) WM

20 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — Z-90 — Pound, Virginia —

Christopher Gist explored the area later known as The Pound—likely derived from a family name—in 1751. The name became established following the construction of a pounding mill after 1815. According to tradition the oldest settlement . . . — — Map (db m90779) HM

21 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — KA-21 — Sunnydale Farm —

Sunnydale Farm, just to the north, was the home of Chant Branham Kelly (1894-1979), known as the “Father of Pound.” Kelly grew up here, served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican Expedition (1916-1917) and World War I, and returned in . . . — — Map (db m228647) HM

22 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound — These Men Gave the Supreme Sacrifice for Our Freedom —

WWI Edward Stidham • Houston Meade • James S. Hamilton WWII Everette Balthis • Ira Short • Maynard Stallard • Bart Belcher Jr. • Clifford Bentley • Harold Bentley • Ralph Hubbard • Milton Ellison • Raymond Hopkins • Carl Baker • . . . — — Map (db m228660) WM

23 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound Gap — Pound Gap Engagement — Southwest Virginia Gateway —

Kentucky Unionists considered Pound Gap second in importance only to Cumberland Gap as a strategic gateway to southwestern Virginia and eastern Tennessee. On the frigid morning of March 16, 1862, Union Gen. James A. Garfield, the future . . . — — Map (db m90781) HM

24 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound Gap — The Crooked Road — The Crooked Road — Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail —

From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Coalfields region, southwest Virginia is blessed with historic and contemporary music venues, musicians, and fretted instrument makers. Historically isolated, the region retained its strong musical legacy by . . . — — Map (db m90782) HM

25 ► Virginia, Wise County, Pound Gap — Z-228 — Wise County / Kentucky —

Wise County. Wise County was formed in 1856 from Lee, Scott, and Russell Counties. It was named for Henry Alexander Wise who was governor of Virginia from 1856 to 1860. The county seat is the town of Wise. After the Civil War the town of . . . — — Map (db m90800) HM

26 ► Virginia, Wise County, St. Paul — Veterans Memorial —

Dedicated to all Veterans in all wars who brought honor to our country and promise to our dreams All gave some Some gave all World War I Total deaths - 116,516 World War I Total deaths - 116,516 World . . . — — Map (db m119072) WM

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27 ► Virginia, Wise County, Wise — E.M. Fulton House —

. . . — — Map (db m228674) HM

28 ► Virginia, Wise County, Wise — Gladeville in the Civil War — “The Burnt City” —

Gladeville (present-day Wise) served for a time in 1862 as the headquarters for Confederate Gen. Humphrey Marshall, who directed operations in Southwest Virginia. Despite its relative isolation in this part of the state, the community . . . — — Map (db m90856) HM

29 ► Virginia, Wise County, Wise — KA-14 — Napoleon Hill —

Napoleon Hill was born nearby on 26 Oct. 1883. At age 13, he became a “mountain reporter” for small town newspapers. He left Southwest Virginia in 1908 to write magazine profiles of such business leaders as Andrew Carnegie, Henry . . . — — Map (db m90860) HM

30 ► Virginia, Wise County, Wise — KA-19 — The University of Virginia’s College at Wise —

The college was founded at 1954 as Clinch Valley College of the University of Virginia, through the efforts of local citizens and University of Virginia officials including President Colgate W. Darden, Jr.; Samuel H. Crockett, extension services . . . — — Map (db m90859) HM

31 ► Virginia, Wise County, Wise — Wise — The Crooked Road — Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail —

Wise. Known variously through the years as Big Glades, Gladesville, and Gladeville, Wise took its current name in 1924 after Henry Alexander Wise, Governor of Virginia before the Civil War. Located on the road between Union Kentucky and the . . . — — Map (db m90857) HM

32 ► Virginia, Wise County, Wise — XB-4 — Wise —

The town of Wise was known as Big Glades when a post office was established here in 1850, Before being incorporated as Wise in 1926 it was also called Gladeville and Wise Court House. Since the creation in 1856 of Wise County, named for Henry . . . — — Map (db m90847) HM

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