Abingdon
First known as Wolf Hills, land was patented here by Dr. Thomas Walker in 1750. Black's Fort was built, 1776. The town of Abingdon was established in 1778 as the county seat of Washington County. A courthouse, built about 1800, was replaced in 1850. In 1862 the church bells were melted for cannon. In Stoneman's raid, December, 1864, the town was partly burned. A new courthouse was built, 1869.
1948 text, presented as a historical document.
Many of these markers have since been replaced or their texts revised. The marker program and its current texts are maintained by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Virginia Department of Historic Resources ↗
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Marker data: Virginia Department of Conservation and Development, State Historical Markers of Virginia, 6th ed. (1948)
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