“Abingdon, the county seat, is 304 miles SW. of Richmond… The town stands on an elevation; it is substantially built, with many brick buildings; the principle street is macamadized, and the town is surrounded by a fertile, flourishing, and thickly settled agricultural country. It contains several large mercantile stores, 2 newspaper printing offices, 1 Presbyterian, …
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The Wilderness Trail, The Great Wagon Road, and the Slavery Trail of Tears
Whether Daniel Boone or Thomas Walker actually “discovered” the site that was described as “Wolf Hills” in 1760, in less than a decade a settlement in that remote corner of Southwest Virgina grew in to the community named Abingdon. Boone is also with the development of a portion of The Wilderness Road which made it …
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