On East Main Street (Virginia Route 640) at Spring Avenue Southeast, on the right when traveling east on East Main Street.
Colonial Hotel
has been registered as a
Virginia
Historic
Landmark
pursuant to the authority vested in the
Virginia Board of Historic Resources — — Map (db m304977) HM
On East Main Street (County Route 640) east of Spring Avenue, on the right.
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 here . . . — — Map (db m90856) HM
On Orby Cantrell Highway (U.S. 23) just north of the traffic light for Lowes Home Improvement, on the right when traveling north.
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
On Thomas Jefferson Drive (Route 382) north of Coeburn Mountain Road (Route 646), on the right when traveling north.
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
On West Main Street (Business U.S. 23) west of Barker Avenue SW.
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
On East Main Street (County Route 640) at Tacoma Avenue SE on East Main Street. Reported missing.
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 m304975) HM
