Aspenvale, the home of General William Campbell, hero of King's Mountain battle, stood a few yards east of this spot. In the graveyard near by General Campbell and soldiers of five wars are buried. — — Map (db m209875) HM
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The history of this storied house and the Thomas family entails much more than an eight-sided or octagon plantation house. According to family history, ancestors of the Abijah Thomas family were present during the initial European . . . — — Map (db m162857) HM
Industrialist Abijah Thomas bought a 344-acre tract in this area, including a sawmill and a grist mill, in 1844. Here ca. 1860 he and a partner opened Holston Woolen Factory, a major producer of textiles around which the village of Holston Mills . . . — — Map (db m209874) HM
