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Stonega Historic District is a national historic district located at Appalachia, Wise County, Virginia. The district encompasses 80 contributing buildings in the coal company town of Stonega. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings built after the towns' founding in 1895.
The E. M. Fulton House, also known as Glay Williams House and Vernoy Tate House, is a historic home in Wise, Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1905–1906, and is a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, six-bay, Colonial Revival style frame dwelling clad in a red brick veneer. It sits on a sandstone foundation and has a hipped and gable roof with dormers.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wise County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Stonega is a Census-designated place and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States. [2] It is part of the Big Stone Gap, Virginia micropolitan area.The community was founded in 1895 to provide housing and coking facilities for the Virginia Coal and Iron Company before being leased to the Stonega Coke and Coal Company in 1902. [3]
It is the county seat of Wise County. [5] It was originally incorporated as the town of Gladeville in 1874. The town's name was changed to Wise in 1924, after Henry A. Wise, the last Virginia governor before the American Civil War and the first governor to hail from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. [6]
Beaty–Richmond Field at Carl Smith Stadium is a 3,086-capacity stadium in Wise, Virginia, used mostly by the UVA Wise Cavaliers football and women's lacrosse teams.. The stadium is named for Carl Smith, a Wise native who donated large sums of money to the university system, and the field is named for Lelia Maude Beaty Richmond, another Wise native who was a supporter of the school.
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Powell Valley near Norton, VA Looking up towards Grindstone Ridge from Powell Valley . Powell Valley in southwest Virginia, in the United States, is located near the city of Norton and the town of Big Stone Gap in Wise County, Virginia. Powell Valley is a picturesque location, with an overlook accessible from the Northbound lanes of U.S. Route ...