Cheap Things To Do in Seven Mile Ford, Virginia

(Mountain View Plantation, 1858, VA-83-01) SW of Marion, Rye Valley Township, Smyth County, VA. US11 W. 3.7 miles from jct with VA16 in Marion, S. on SR660 1.6 miles, continue S. on SR657 (Thomas Bridge Rd.) ... More on dalejtravis.com

Aspenvale Cemetery was the first cemetery to be declared a Virginia Historic Landmark. Not only is the Revolutionary hero, Gen. William Campbell, famous for the Battle of King's Mountain, buried here, but also his wife, Elizabeth ... More on Virginia.org

One of the Pre-Revolutionary churches in Southwest Virginia, organized in 1775, the present building was erected in 1851 on the site of a log meeting house deed to the ... More on Virginia.org

Indian fields, part of James Thompson's original tract inherited from his Grandfather, James Patton in the 1700's. James Thompson fought at King's Mountain. A Cherokee Indian uprising brought about the building as the neighborhood ... More on Virginia.org

Inscription. Throughout 1864, Federal raids against the Confederate infrastructure in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia attempted to destroy iron and lead mines, salt works and railroads. The Virginia & Tennessee Railroad, the ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Royal Oak, home of Arthur Campbell, Indian fighter and Revolutionary leader who settled here in 1769, stood three hundred yards south. The house was a neighborhood fort and in it, in 1832, the first court of Smyth County ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Col. William Elisha Peters, 21st Virginia Cavalry, C. S. A. is buried in the cemetery to your left. He was born on August 28, 1829, in Bedford County, Virginia, attending New London Academy there, then entered Emory and ... More on HMDB

Inscription. Here, on December 17-18, 1864, General Stoneman, raiding to Saltville, fought an engagement with John C. Breckinridge, Confederate commander in southwest Virginia. , Erected 1927 by Conservation & Development Commission. ... More on HMDB

THE RIDE OF MARTIN GAMBILL David Andrew Sturgill Alleghany Genealogical�"Historical Society, Inc. Sparta, NC In 1775 a Boston silversmith named Paul Revere made a night ride of about ten miles to w... More on Nps.gov

Inscription. Arthur Campbell, a military and political leader, was born in Augusta County in 1743. In 1758 during the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), Campbell was captured by the Wyandot Indians alig... More on HMDB

Behind the Marion Fire Department stands a very old oak tree. The tears that were shed on its bark have long since been washed away. They were the tears of a six year old child, purchased as a slave by Thomas Thurman in the 1840?s. ... More on Virginia.org