Thursday Thirteen

Here are 13 local historical facts about my locality. They tell about the early days, back when we were actually the wild, wild west.

This is up near Buchanan near the Rockbridge County line.

How the county was created.

An early Indian story, also up near Buchanan.

A marker commemorating one of the many lost iron furnaces that used to dot the county.

Recognizing the courthouse fire in 1970 and its importance in historical preservation.

A college in Daleville. Surviving buildings are now apartments.

The county seat and how it was founded.

A fort constructed during the French and Indian War, "to protect Virginia's frontier."

A notation about William Preston, whose property is now an industrial complex.

Also near Buchanan, this ferry crossing was important to the county's growth as folks moved here.

A route that closely follows what is now U.S. 11, the Old Carolina Road was used by thousands to venture
west and south as more territory opened up (stolen from the Native Americans).

One of our older tracts and notable because William Clark, of Lewis and Clark fame, married a girl
who grew up there, among other things.

The founding of the local Baptist association at Zion Hill, an area north of Fincastle.



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