Historical Markers in Speers Ferry, Virginia

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Historical Markers in Speers Ferry, Virginia

1 ► Virginia, Scott County, Speers Ferry — Natural Tunnel: Railroading and Recreation —

As early as 1852, railroaders, local merchants, and mineral speculators knew Natural Tunnel would be the most economical rail route to the coal fields of Lee County and the western part of present day Wise County, because the Tunnel would let them . . . — — Map (db m36109) HM

2 ► Virginia, Scott County, Speers Ferry — Speers Ferry — The Crooked Road — Virginia’s Heritage Music Trail —

(Right Side):Speers Ferry Historically the Clinch River served as a major avenue for settlement and opened up the area of southwestern Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Among other settlers, Daniel Boone lived along the banks of this . . . — — Map (db m36087) HM

3 ► Virginia, Scott County, Speers Ferry — The Copper Creek Railroad Trestles —

The Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway built the taller of the two structures which stand before you in 1908. At 167 feet over the Copper Creek-Clinch River junction, the Copper Creek Viaduct was then one of the tallest railroad bridges in the . . . — — Map (db m36106) HM

4 ► Virginia, Scott County, Speers Ferry — The Wilderness Road Crossing of the Clinch River —

In 1775 Daniel Boone and a group of axmen, following a Native American trade route, blazed a trail from the Anderson Blockhouse to a site on the Kentucky River. This trail, later to become the Wilderness Road, traversed 200 miles of wilderness and . . . — — Map (db m36100) HM

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