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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PK0_carters-fort_Duffield-VA.html
Near here stood a fort first known as Crissman's Fort, and later as Carter's or Rye Cove Fort, and by militia officers as Fort Lee. Built by Isaac Crissman, Sr. in 1774, it was acquired by Thomas Carter (1731 1803) after Crissman's death at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMV51_the-natural-tunnel-route_Duffield-VA.html
Railroads, like water, tend to follow the path of least resistance. Early railroad engineers saw Natural Tunnel as a logical path through the mountains to the growing rail systems of the Midwest. The South Atlantic and Ohio Railroad began layi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTWD_carters-fort_Duffield-VA.html
Three miles east in Rye Cove stood Carter's Fort, built by Thomas Carter in 1784. It was a station on the Old Wilderness Road from North Carolina to Kentucky.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4R_natural-tunnel-railroading-and-recreation_Duffield-VA.html
As early as 1852, railroaders, local merchants, and mineral speculators knew Natural Tunnel would be the most economical rail route to the coal fields of Lee County and the western part of present day Wise County, because the Tunnel would let them…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4P_the-copper-creek-railroad-trestles_Duffield-VA.html
The Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio Railway built the taller of the two structures which stand before you in 1908. At 167 feet over the Copper Creek-Clinch River junction, the Copper Creek Viaduct was then one of the tallest railroad bridges in the e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO4K_the-wilderness-road-crossing-of-the-clinch-river_Duffield-VA.html
In 1775 Daniel Boone and a group of axmen, following a Native American trade route, blazed a trail from the Anderson Blockhouse to a site on the Kentucky River. This trail, later to become the Wilderness Road, traversed 200 miles of wilderness and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO48_speers-ferry_Duffield-VA.html
(Right Side):Speers Ferry Historically the Clinch River served as a major avenue for settlement and opened up the area of southwestern Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. Among other settlers, Daniel Boone lived along the banks of this river and to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO1T_scott-county-lee-county_Duffield-VA.html
(West Facing Side):Scott CountyArea 543 square milesFormed in 1814 from Lee, Washington and Russell. Named for General Winfield Scott, later commander of the American Army. The natural tunnel is in this county. (East Facing Side):Lee CountyArea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO1P_fanny-dickenson-scott-johnson_Duffield-VA.html
In this valley in June 1785, Fanny Dickenson Scott's husband, Archibald Scott, their four children and a young male member of the nearby Ball family were killed by members of four different Indian tribes. The rest of the Ball family escaped, but F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO1O_death-of-boones-son_Duffield-VA.html
In this valley, on 10 Oct. 1773, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cherokee Indians killed Daniel Boone's eldest son, James, and five others in their group of eight settlers en route to Kentucky. Separated from Daniel Boone's main party, the men had set up c…
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