Category: Local History

Who Was Dr. Andrew Jackson Osborne?

State Route 604 begins at State Route 421 in Duffield, Virginia, and runs through Pattonsville, Blackwater and Jonesville on its way to the Tennessee state line.  On the Virginia side, it is named “Doctor Andrew Jackson Osborne Highway”.  Those familiar with the area will know that there are many...
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Blackwater German Baptist Church of the Brethren

I remember Dad telling me that my great-grandpa, Elbert Roberts, attended a German Baptist Church in Blackwater.  The German Baptist were also known as “Dunkers” since they believed in completely immersing a person three times during baptism.  They are commonly known as the Church of the Brethren today. I...
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1782 Land Taxes Pittsylvania County, Virginia

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapittsy/1782LandTaxes.htm Name                                                   Acres Joseph Bayes                                       350 William Beel                                          100 William Griggory                                  60 Clement McDaniel                               300 James Caldwell                                     300 John Watkins                                       100 Samuel Brooks                                      125 Henry Blanks                                        175 Abednigo Tunner                                50                                                                                                                          ...
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Oaths of Allegiance – 1777 Pittsylvania County, VA

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapittsy/Oaths.html copy done by Cynthia Hubbard Headen source: The Magazine of VA Genealogy, v.23, #1 (Feb.1985), transcribed by Marian Dodson Chiarito These lists were taken from a typewritten copy found in the Clerk’s Office, Pittsylvania County, at Chatham, Virginia.  The two following affidavits found attached to the copy are...
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The Location of the Massacre of James Boone and Henry Russell

Originally posted at http://www.danielboonetrail.com/historicalsites.php?id=80. AN EXCERPT FROM THE BOOK ON THE WILDERNESS ROAD  BY THE AUTHOR copyright November 2006 All rights reserved Lawrence J. Fleenor, Jr. Big Stone Gap, Va. The site of the 1773 massacre of the son of Daniel Boone and of the son of William Russell...
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