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History

of

Tazewell County

and

Southwest Virginia

1748 - 1920

By WM. C. Pendleton

With Illustrations

W.C. Hill Printing Company

Richmond, VA

1920

700 pages on 1 CD

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

ABORIGINAL PERIOD.

I. Origin of the Red men; their distribution, civilization, character, etc

II. Nations and tribes north of Mexico

III. The Indians; their civilization, govemment, manners, and religion

PERIOD OF DISCOVERY AND COLONIZATION.

I. Spanish and French discoveries and conquests

II. French discoveries and settlements

III. Birth of American Nation—English Settlement at Jamestown

IV. From death of James I to 1676

V. Bacon's Rebellion and discovery of Shenandoah Valley

PIONEER PERIOD.

I. Settlement of Shenandoah and Roanoke Valleys

II. The Walker and Gist expeditions

III. French and Indian war

IV. Drapers Meadows Massacre and other Tragic Incidents

V. Holston Valley invaded by Indians—The Sandy expedition

VI. Why settlements delayed in Clinch Valley

VII. The Tazewell Pioneer settlers

VIII. Frontiers of Fincastle County invaded by Indians

IX. Fincastle men called for Ohio expedition—Indians invade Clinch and Holston settlements

X. Battle of Point Pleasant—Kentucky opened for settlement

XI. The Revolutionary War

XII. First Constitutional Convention—Declares United Colonies free and independent States—Declaration of

Rights and Constitution adopted

XII. Kentucky, Washington and Montgomery counties are formed

XIV. Clark's expedition to Illinois, and Battle of King's Mountain

APPENDICES—PIONEER PERIOD.

A—Sketches of Pioneer Families

B—Massacres by Indians

ANTE-BELLUM, OR FORMATIVE, PERIOD.

I. Organization of Tazewell County

II. Boundries and Topography of Tazewell County

III. Interesting sections of county—The head of Clinch

Valley

IV. Development of political, social, and industrial character of its people

V. The roads of Tazewell County—Growth in population and wealth, etc.

VI. The origin and descent of Tazewell County

WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.

I. Principal causes of the Civil War

II. The Harper's Ferry Insurrection

III. The Presidential election of 1860

IV. Virginia holds convention and secedes from Union

V. What Tazewell did in the war

Appendix- War and Reconstruction Period

POST BELLUM, OR DEVELOPMENT, PERIOD.

I. County recovers from effects of Civil War

II. Prosperity returns to Tazewell County

Appendix—List of men from Tazewell County in World War 1914—army and navy