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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21LJ_lovely-mount-tavern_Radford-VA.html
Built by John Heavin on the Wilderness Road in 1796, the Tavern served as an Inn. A settlement, including a general store, blacksmith shop, saloon, and homes grew up around it. William Baskerville acquired the property in 1827 and operated a post …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1ZED_lovely-mountain-baptist-church_Radford-VA.html
On 15 Nov. 1869, the Rev. Capt. Charles S. Schaeffer of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands met with the people of Lovely Mount (later Radford) and organized the Lovely Mount Baptist Church. In 1898, the congregation purchase…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19OT_connellys-run_Radford-VA.html
This branch of the New River dividing east and west Radford was named after James Connelly, an early pioneer and surveyor. In 1749, he helped to mark the path that became known as the Wilderness Road, today Rock Road south of the Park. Connelly…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19OQ_wildwood-pool_Radford-VA.html
For thirty-six years a swimming pool provided Radford with water recreation at this location in Wildwood Park, to give a place "in which to avoid bad habits." The opening of the pool and a dance on Independence Day in 1929 attracted 10,000 people …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMY60_montgomery-county-pulaski-county_Fairlawn-VA.html
Montgomery County.Formed in 1776 from Fincastle, and named for General Richard Montgomery, killed at Quebec, 1775. The Virginia Polytechnic Institute is in this county. Pulaski County.Formed in 1839 from Wythe and Montgomery, and named for Coun…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSY4_roads-west_Fairlawn-VA.html
During the 1770s, Samuel Pepper established aferry crossing nearby which opened a transportation, route during the late colonial and earlynational periods linking the resources of theWest with the population centers in the East.A century later, th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRR0_ingles-ferry-road_Radford-VA.html
As the population in the New River valley increased in the 18th century, the western branch of the Great Wagon Road from Philadelphia to the backcountry of the Carolinas and Georgia crossed the region. The branch became known as the Wilderness Roa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRQZ_radford_Radford-VA.html
It originated as a railroad town in 1856 and was known as Central. In 1862-65 this section was in the range of Union raids; Confederates burned the bridge at Ingles Ferry to retard raiders. Incorporated in 1887 as a town, the place was incorporate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRQY_starnes_Fairlawn-VA.html
(side a)In 1746 "Frederick Stering (Staring) and two sons" were workers on a road "ordered" from the N. Fork of the Roanoke to the New River. Second son, Frederick Starn, Jr., "entered" 200a "below the Little Horseshoe" in March 1747. Other sons, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRQW_the-new-river_Radford-VA.html
Not "new" at all, the New River, the second oldest in the world, is more than 320 million years old. Only the Nile is older. The river received its original English name, Wood's River, perhaps from Colonel Abraham Wood who explored the area in 165…
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