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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
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
“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
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
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 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
