Gate City

Gate City is a Virginia historical marker in in Gate City., Scott County, dedicated 1941.

Business Rte. 23 at intersection with Jones Street, in Gate City.

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The town was laid off in 1815 as the county seat of Scott County. The original name of Winfield, for General Winfield Scott, was changed to Estillville for Judge Benjamin Estill. In 1886, the name was changed to Gate City because of its situation in Moccasin Gap, through which the old Wilderness Road to the West passed. It was incorporated, 1892.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1809 · United States of America, southern part. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1814 · Kentucky (Mathew Carey, 1814) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1818 · Map of Virginia, 1818 (lower left sheet) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1818 · Kentucky. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1822 · Kentucky. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Map of Virginia, 1818 (lower left sheet), 1818, covering the location of Gate City, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Map of Virginia, 1818 (lower left sheet), 1818, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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