Fincastle County

Fincastle County is a Virginia historical marker in Wythe County, dedicated 2016.

Wythe County · dedicated 2016 · US Rte. 52, just south of Austinville Road (Route 619)

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Fincastle County, formed in 1772 from Botetourt County, became extinct in 1776 when it was split into Montgomery, Washington, and Kentucky (now the state of Kentucky) Counties. Col. William Christian commanded a militia battalion of Fincastle men during Dunmore's War against Indians of the Ohio Country in 1774. Fincastle surveyors under Col. William Preston laid off more than 200,000 acres of land in the future state of Kentucky. In 1775, responding to a call from the First Continental Congress, a county committee of 15 freeholders wrote resolutions expressing loyalty to King George III while vowing to defend the liberty and property rights they enjoyed as Virginians.

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