Near Ben H Bolen Drive, 0.1 miles east of State Park Road (Virginia Route 660). Reported missing.
This tablet commemorates the first white settlement west of New River, made in 1745 near here by "Dunkers". In 1756 they built a fort for protection against Indians. In 1771 Col. William Christian built a home on this site. The stones in this . . . — — Map (db m41457) HM
On Cleburne Boulevard (Virginia Route 100) 0.3 miles south of Cloyds Mountain Road, in the median.
In April 1864 Grant ordered Brig. Gen. George Crook to cut the Virginia & Tennessee RR in Southwest Virginia. Near Cloyd’s Mountain, five miles north of Dublin, on 9 May Crook battled Confederate defenders commanded by Brig. Gen. Albert G. Jenkins. . . . — — Map (db m41409) HM
On Cleburne Boulevard (Virginia Route 100) at International Boulevard (County Route 790), on the right when traveling south on Cleburne Boulevard.
Here on May 9, 1864, was fought the Battle of Cloyd's Farm in which more than 800 gallant men were killed.
Rutherford B. Hayes & William McKinley later presidents of the United States engaged in this battle as officers of the Union . . . — — Map (db m162942) HM
On Cleburne Boulevard (Virginia Route 100) at Laboratory Street (Virginia Route 790), on the right when traveling south on Cleburne Boulevard.
Just to the west took place the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain, May 9, 1864. The Union General Crook, raiding to destroy the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad (N.&W.), met and repulsed General A. G. Jenkins, who was mortally wounded. — — Map (db m41410) HM
Near Ben H Bolen Drive, 0.1 miles east of State Park Road (Virginia Route 660).
This chimney, formerly to the home of William Christian, brother-in-law to Patrick Henry & frontier militia commander, was built about 1772 a mile down stream at a site now submerged by Claytor Lake. In 1808 it became the home of Thomas Cloyd from . . . — — Map (db m41455) HM
On Ben H Bolen Drive near State Park Road (Virginia Route 660).
This chimney marks the site
of the home of
Colonel William Christian
Christiansburg, Va., was named for
this Revolutionary War leader and Virginia patriot
Chairman of the Fincastle Resolutions Committee
and brother-in-law of . . . — — Map (db m41454) HM
On Cleburne Boulevard (Virginia Route 100) at New Dublin Church Road (County Route 797), on the right when traveling north on Cleburne Boulevard.
This congregation, one of the oldest in Southwest Virginia, consisted of 45 families by 1769. Col.Joseph Cloyd, a Revolution army War officer, donated land for its first sanctuary, built 1/2 mile east of here ca. 1781. The present sanctuary (ca. . . . — — Map (db m138342) HM
On Bagging Plant Road (Virginia Route 617) at Dunlap Road, on the left when traveling north on Bagging Plant Road.
Just south of here stood the New River Ordnance Plant, or Dublin Bagging Plant, a World War II facility established primarily for the bagging of propellant used for firing artillery shells. Construction of the plant, designed and operated by the . . . — — Map (db m126020) HM
Near Cleburne Boulevard (Virginia Route 100) at International Boulevard, on the right when traveling south.
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Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, commander of all Union armies, ordered advances throughout the Confederacy in May 1864. In Virginia, Gen. George C. Meade led the Army of the Potomac across the Rappahannock River and south toward Richmond . . . — — Map (db m162941) HM
On Dublin Park Road east of Town Center Drive, on the left when traveling east.
The United States' mobilization for World War II
brought dramatic changes to this region. The Radford
Ordnance Works, nine miles northeast of here, and
the New River Ordnance Plant, near here, opened
in 1941. Construction employed more than . . . — — Map (db m228250) HM
On Belle Hampton Farm Road, 0.1 miles north of Highland Road (Virginia Route 627), on the right when traveling north.
While searching for his lost brother who fought in
the French-Indian War, James Mayo Hoge instead
found his true love and together they built a home
on land he called Hayfield (now Belle Hampton
Farm). Ownership of the property has . . . — — Map (db m228245) HM
