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Grayson County was founded in 1793 from part of Wythe County.It was named for William Grayson, [3] delegate to the Continental Congress from 1784 to 1787 and one of the first two U.S. Senators from Virginia.
Fox is an unincorporated community in Grayson County, Virginia, United States located at the intersection of U.S. Route 58 (Wilson Highway) and State Route 711 (Fox Creek Road and Maple Road). [1] Fox has a cemetery, the Fox Union Cemetery, located on Fox Creek Road. [2]
This is a list of people executed in Virginia after 1976. The Supreme Court decision in Gregg v. Georgia, issued in 1976, allowed for the reinstitution of the death penalty in the United States. Capital punishment in Virginia was abolished by the Virginia General Assembly in 2021. [1] [2]
Vazquez-Jimenez was convicted of sex abuse of a child. The cause of death was hanging, according to Utah county authorities. Jail or Agency: Utah County Jail; State: Utah; Date arrested or booked: 6/3/2015; Date of death: 5/16/2016; Age at death: 45; Sources: Utah County Sheriff's Office, www.heraldextra.com
Independence is a town located in and the county seat of Grayson County, Virginia. [5] At the 2020 U.S. census, it had a population of 1,001. [2] It is situated on Virginia's Crooked Road, a heritage trail celebrating the musical heritage of Southwest Virginia.
Mary Draper Ingles (1732 – February 1815), also known in records as Mary Inglis or Mary English, was an American pioneer and early settler of western Virginia.In the summer of 1755, she and her two young sons were among several captives taken by Shawnee after the Draper's Meadow Massacre during the French and Indian War.
Location of Grayson County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Grayson County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grayson County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Spring Valley Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Fries, Grayson County, Virginia, United States.The district encompasses 184 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing object in the wooded and agricultural northeastern corner of Grayson County.