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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19SY_slave-section-of-east-hill-cemetery_Bristol-VA.html
This site was established in 1857 by Bristol founder Joseph Rhea Anderson for the purpose of a slave cemetery. Buried nearby are twelve slaves including Old Si Goodson, who died in 1862, purportedly at the age of 132, reputed to be the oldest man …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19SM_bristol_Bristol-VA.html
Bristol. In 1927 the Victor Talking Machine Company sent a portable studio to Bristol, and music publisher Ralph Peer advertized for traditional musicians wishing to try their hand at recording. The test pressings of the resulting "Bristol Session…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLRV_overmountain-patriots-of-the-american-revolution_Bristol-VA.html
Dedicated to the hundreds of patriots from this area who fought in the American Revolution (1775 - 1783).
When the war in the north came to a stalemate by early 1780, the British turned their military strategy to the South. They believed that d…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFXS_first-country-and-western-recording_Bristol-VA.html
(North Face)Erected August 16, 1971 HonoringA.P. CarterSara CarterMaybelle CarterJimmie RodgersWho recorded the first Country and Western music to be distributed nationwide in Bristol, Tennessee on August 2, 1927
(West Face)Dedicated by the peo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFXN_birthplace-of-country-music_Bristol-VA.html
Bristol has long been known as a hub for traditional mountain music. In the summer of 1927, Ralph Peer, a record producer from Victor Talking Machine Company, traveled to Bristol and set up a portable recording studio four blocks east of this loca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMFB9_jimmie-rodgers_Bristol-VA.html
Jimmie Rodgers, known as "The Singing Brakeman" and "the Blue Yodeler," was born in Meridian, Mississippi on September 8, 1897. After working as a brakeman for the railroad, a bout of tuberculosis forced Rodgers from the rails, as he took up his f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7G_evan-shelby_Bristol-VA.html
Born in Wales, 1719, he came here about 1771. A veteran of Braddock's Campaign and Lord Dunmore's War, he commanded a successful expedition against the Chickamauga towns, 1779. Member of the North Carolina State Senate, 1781, and brigadier general…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7F_bristol_Bristol-VA.html
Landmark BridgeBetween Two StatesErected 1910Placed on theNational Register of Historic PlacesBy the United States Department of the InteriorSeptember 8,1988
Marker in memory of Mattie and Jim OwensBristol Historical Association
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF7D_birthplace-of-bristol_Bristol-VA.html
The town of Bristol was planned and laid out by Joseph Rhea Anderson in 1852. Development began on this site in 1853 with the erection of Anderson's combined home and business. The building served as the community's first store, post office, bank,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMF5G_bristol-sessions_Bristol-VA.html
In 1927 Ralph Peer, a record producer with the Victor Talking Machine Company, set up a temporary music studio on this site. Over the next 12 days he recorded 76 songs by 19 artists, includding the Stonemans, and the first recordings of Jimmie Rod…