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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21MM_the-crooked-road_Bastian-VA.html
From the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Coalfields
region, Southwest Virginia is blessed with historic
and contemporary music venues, musicians, and
fretted instrument makers. Historically isolated, the
region retained its strong musical legacy b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VGI_giles-county-bland-county-historical_Bland-VA.html
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Giles County
Area 369 square miles
Formed in 1806 from Montgomery, Tazewell, and Monroe, and named for William B. Giles, United States Senator and Governor of Virginia, 1827-1830. Mountain Lake is in this county.
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Bland C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU59_bland_Bland-VA.html
The community center was first known as Crab Orchard. The place became the county seat of Bland County when it was formed in 1861 under the name of Seddon, which was later changed to that of the county. At Rocky Gap a skirmish was fought in Crook'…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU42_a-noted-preacher_Bastian-VA.html
William Elbert Munsey was born a few mileseast in the mountains of Giles (present-day Bland)County on 13 July 1833. Despite little formalschooling, Munsey possessed an insatiableappetite for knowledge. He entered the ministryof the Methodist Churc…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTOX_henry-c-groseclose_Ceres-VA.html
Henry Casper Groseclose (1892-1950), anative of Ceres, was one of the founders ofFuture Farmers of Virginia (FFV). While teaching agricultural education at Virginia PolytechnicInstitute, Groseclose, Walter Newman, Edmund Magill, and Harry Sanders …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSY7_one-of-the-big-four_Bland-VA.html
Here is the home of S. H. Newberry, who, with three others, composed the "Big Four" in the Virginia Senate. These four men united to defeat objectionable measures of the Readjuster Movement.