On Crab Orchard Road (Business U.S. 19/460) south of Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 19/460), on the right when traveling south.
Fort Maiden Spring, NSDAR
commemorates the
250th Anniversary
of the
United States of America
with this liberty bell
July 4, 1776 - July 4, 2026 — — Map (db m305223) 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 Crab Orchard Road (Business U.S. 19/460) south of Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 19/460), on the right when traveling south.
The original Fort Witten was constructed in 1774 by Thomas Witten as a defensive structure during hostilities with Native Americans. A small militia was stationed at the fort during Lord Dunmore’s War. The blockhouse style building contained two . . . — — Map (db m305221) 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 Crab Orchard Road at Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 19/460), on the right when traveling north on Crab Orchard Road.
Near here in 1793, the Rev. John Kobler preached the first sermon by a Methodist in what is now Tazewell County. As a result, a new congregation was formed with nine White ant two enslaved Black members. The church building, constructed across . . . — — Map (db m304939) 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 Crab Orchard Road (Business U.S. 19/460) south of Trail of the Lonesome Pine (U.S. 19/460), on the right when traveling south.
He and his family were the first permanent settlers in this area
Elizabeth Cecil, his wife
Children
Elizabeth, Susanna, Phillip, Jeremiah, Kiziah, Thomas, Jr., Ann, James, William — — Map (db m305220) 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
