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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21FS_lucy-selina-furnace_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21FQ_australia-furnace_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
Australia Furnace, located just east of here, produced pig iron for the Tredegar Iron Works—"Ironmaker to the Confederacy"—during the Civil War. Ira and Edwin Jordan had begun constructing Australia Furnace in 1852; two years…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21FM_jackson-river-depot_Low-Moor-VA.html
During the Civil War, the Jackson River Depot was located here. It marked the western terminus of the Virginia Central Railroad, which extended 200 miles from Hanover Junction north of Richmond. Located just east of the Kanawha Pass of the Alleghe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21FI_averells-salem-raid_Covington-VA.html
In December 1863, Union Gen. William W. Averell's 2,500 cavalrymen raided Salem, Virginia, to disrupt the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad supply line to Confederate Gen. James Longstreet, who was besieging Knoxville, Tennessee. After the raid, Ave…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21FE_c-o-railroad-shops_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
When the first train arrived in Jackson's River Station July 10th, 1857, the western terminus of the Virginia Central consisted of little more than a refueling station for wood-burning steam engines and a station house for employees and passengers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21FD_peters-mountain-lick-mountain-gap_Covington-VA.html
Through the gap between Peters Mountain on the left and Lick Mountain on the right lies the road to the Kanawha used by emigrants traveling west to the Mississippi basin. The road in the valley below follows the route Washington used when inspecti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZFZ_masonic-theatre_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
Low Moor Lodge No. 166, Ancient Free and
Accepted Masons, commissioned this Neo-Classical
Revival-style opera house and lodge, erected in
1905 at a cost of about $40,000, The Masons held
meetings on the third floor from 1906 to 1921.
The thea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KWE_douthat-state-park_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
This park was developed by the National Park Service, Interior Department, through the Civilian Conservation Corps, in conjunction with the Virginia Conservation Commission. It covers nearly 4500 acres and was opened, June 15, 1936. It lies in a r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KWD_low-moor-iron-company-coke-ovens_Clifton-Forge-VA.html
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 emp…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GW4_falling-spring-falls_Hot-Springs-VA.html
Welcome to Falling Spring Falls in the Heart of the Alleghany Highlands.
According to the book, "Historical Sketches of the Alleghany
Highlands" by Gay Arritt, 82 acres of land including, the
Falling Spring Falls was granted by King Geor…