Early travelers following the Great Road crossed the James River near the town of Buchanan in Botetourt County. The county seat, Fincastle, was one of the last outposts ...

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Wythe County was founded in 1790. German and Scots-Irish settlers traveled the Wilderness Road through what is now Wytheville's Main Street. In 1792, a place near the middle ...

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