Entries Containing All of the Phrases «alleghany county» AND «virginia»

By Bernard Fisher, August 18, 2011

Alleghany County, Virginia Marker (reverse)

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1 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Covington — Z-286 — West Virginia / Alleghany County, Virginia —

West Virginia. West Virginia was long a part of Virginia. Morgan Morgan began the settlement of the region in 1727. A great battle with the Indians took place at Point Pleasant in 1774. West Virginia became a separate state of the Union in . . . — — Map (db m46376) HM

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2 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Alleghany — Z-223 — Alleghany County Va. / West Virginia —

Alleghany County Va. Area 458 square miles. Formed in 1822, from Bath, Botetourt and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, 1763. . . . — — Map (db m84057) HM

3 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Covington — Z-194 — Alleghany County / West Virginia —

Alleghany County Virginia. 458 Square Miles. Formed in 1822 from Bath, Botetourt, and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann in this county a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, . . . — — Map (db m295844) HM

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4 ► Virginia, Rockbridge County, Goshen — Z-77 — Alleghany County / Rockbridge County —

Alleghany County. Area 458 Square Miles. Formed in 1822 from Bath, Botetourt, and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann in this county a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, . . . — — Map (db m46391) HM

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5 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Low Moor — D-33 — Low Moor Iron Company Coke Ovens —

Here stand the earliest coke ovens of the Low Moor Iron Company (organized 1873). The ovens converted coal to coke to fuel the company’s blast furnace. The company built more than a hundred such ovens in 1881. By 1923 the Low Moor Iron Company . . . — — Map (db m84051) HM

6 ► Virginia, Henrico County, Glen Allen — Courtney Road Service Station — The Birth of Modern Automotive Services —

Before there were gas stations, motorists would get a drum of fuel from an industrial depot, bring it home, and store it. Soon after, consumers got their gasoline at the blacksmith shops and hardware and grocery stores. Still others received . . . — — Map (db m24597) HM

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7 ► Virginia, Highland County, Monterey — W-118 — The Recorder —

George M. Jordan and Philip E. Witts established The Recorder in Monterey in Oct. 1877 during a period of rapid growth for local journalism in the post-Civil War years. By horse and wagon they hauled a Washington printing press, the most . . . — — Map (db m307943) HM

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8 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Hot Springs — Z-78 — Bath County / Alleghany County —

Alleghany County. The Virginia General Assembly formed Alleghany Co. in 1822 from parts of Bath, Botetourt, and Monroe. Within its boundaries are the Towns of Clifton Forge and Iron Gate and the City of Covington, the county seat. Public . . . — — Map (db m314088) HM

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9 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Low Moor — L-4 — Oakland Grove Presbyterian Church —

First called the Church by the Spring, Oakland Grove Church may have been organized as early as 1834, but it was officially established circa 1847 as a mission of Covington Presbyterian Church. A simple brick house of worship constructed during a . . . — — Map (db m46377) HM

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10 ► North Carolina, Alleghany County, Ennice — M-49 — Blue Ridge Parkway —

First rural national parkway. Construction began near here on September 11, 1935. — — Map (db m171496) HM

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11 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Clifton Forge — Robert Gallaspy Land Grant — May 12, 1770 and June 22, 1772 —

The land upon which Clifton Forge is established, was granted to Robert Gallaspy, from George III, King of England, through Baron DeBotetourt, Governor of the Colony of Virginia. — — Map (db m207679) HM

12 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Covington — Humpback Bridge —

Humpback Bridge constructed of hand hewn timbers in 1835 for the James River Kanawha Turnpike Corporation remained in public use until 1929. In 1953, through the efforts of the Covington Business and Professional Women's Club, the Chamber of . . . — — Map (db m46388) HM

13 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Iron Gate — Z-76 — Alleghany County / Botetourt County — Area 458 Square Miles / Area 548 Square Miles —

Alleghany County. Formed in 1822, from Bath, Botetourt and Monroe, and named for the Alleghany Mountains. At Fort Mann a battle took place between settlers and Indians led by Cornstalk, 1763. Botetourt County. Formed in 1769 from . . . — — Map (db m207845) HM

14 ► Virginia, Covington — Covington High School —

Covington High School 1939 is designated a Virginia Historic Landmark by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior . . . — — Map (db m298441) HM

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15 ► Virginia, Alleghany County, Longdale Furnace — Lucy Selina Furnace — Alleghany Iron for the Confederacy —

You are standing near the site of the Lucy Selina Furnace, which supplied the Confederacy with pig iron for the production of cannons, munitions, and rails during the Civil War. In 1827, two Scots-Irishmen, Col. John Jordan and John Irvine, built . . . — — Map (db m107982) HM

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16 ► Virginia, Staunton — 5 — Shining Light on Their Humanity — The Long Road To Freedom —

"I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Ann M. Peyton...four negro men and four negro women to be selected by herself from all I may own..." Will of John Howe Peyton Remembering their Humanity The dehumanizing nature of . . . — — Map (db m282982) HM

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