Contains rare plate of Cherokee Indians in Virginia and. North Carolina. Acquired by purchase-exchange with William Reese Company. ... [PDF] Annual Report for 2003 File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Contains rare plate of Cherokee Indians in Virginia and. North Carolina. Acquired by purchase-exchange with William Reese Company. ... www.vahistorical.org/about/annualreport03.pdf ********************************************************************************* Contains rare plate of Cherokee Indians in Virginia and. North Carolina. Acquired by purchase-exchange with William Reese Company. ... Lesson plan: Archaeology - Its Methods and Use - Becoming a ...Slusser, M. Catherine, and others, Teacher's Guide: Virginia Archaeology. .... an Indian rights activist who is a member of the Cherokee tribe, ... www.vahistorical.org/sva2003/lparch1.htm - 33k - Cached Extended History This Southwestern Virginia County lies on the Alleghany Plateau and is characterized by its mountainous terrain. A secondary continental divide seperates the watersheds to the New River Valley and the Tennessee River Valley. The Clinch River's headwater source and the beginning of the Clinch River Valley is located a few miles east of Tazewell, the county seat. Flowing west and south from Tazewell, the Clinch joins the Holston River and forms the Tennesse River near Knoxville, TN. The source of the Bluestone River, which runs east and north, is located a few hundred yards east of the Clinch River source. The Bluestone winds its way through Tazewell County and Mercer County, WV and joins the New River just north of Athens, WV. The fertile valleys of these rivers and their tributaries became the sites of original settlement within the County. A primary route through the mountains for the early pioneers was the game and Indian trails along the Clearfork branch of Wolf Creek, from its juncture with the New River, into the Clinch River Valley and on to Cumberland Gap and Kentucky. Historical Perspectives Prior to the American Revolution, the Southwest Virginia area was a fruitful and valued hunting ground for the Cherokee Indian tribes, to the south, and the Shawnee tribes along the Ohio River. The area's abundance of wild game, which was the source of frequent skirmishes among these Indian tribes , also drew trappers from Eastern Virginia. Original surveys and land grants were made in 1748 and the original County settlers established homesteads in the late1760's. Tazewell County was formed in 1799 from Russell and Wythe Counties. At the time of formation, the County included all or portions of the current counties of Bland County, VA, Giles County, VA, Buchanan County, VA, Mercer County, WV, McDowell County, WV, Wyoming County, WV and Logan County, WV. The county was named after Henry Tazewell, member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and later a U.S. Senator. The first Tazewell County Court was held in the house of Henry Harman, Jr. on June 12, 1800. Early County Settlements and Settlers 1769 -1773 • Abb's Valley: Iaaac BLANGY Absalom LOONEY Capt. James MOORE, Robert POAGUE • Baptist Valley: John DESKINS, Thomas MARTIN, Richard PEMBERTON, Charles and James SCAGGS • Bluestone: Samuel FERGUSON, John HARMAN, Benjamin JOSLIN, Thomas MAXWELL, James OGLETON • Burke's Garden: Thomas INGLES Clear Fork of Wolf Creek John RIDGEL • The Cove: John CRAVEN, David WARD • Crab Apple: Orchard Samuel CECIL, John GREENUP, Thonas WITTEN • Deskins Valley: Richard ONEY, Obadiah PAYNE • Head of the Clinch River: Henry, Mathias and Jacob HARMAN • Jeffersonville Area (Tazewell): John BRADSHAW, Elisha CARY, Benjamin, Chrisley and Thomas HOUSLEY, John, Thomas and William PEERY Locust Hill William WYNN • Morris Knob: William GARRISON • North Fork of the Clinch: William BUTLER, Jesse EVANS, John TAYLOR • Thompson Valley: John HENRY, James KING, Samuel MARRS, Joseph MARTIN, John and Archibald THOMPSON http://www.virginia.org/site/features.asp?FeatureID=404 http://www.myvirginiagenealogy.com/va_county/taz.htm 1http://www.tolatsga.org/Cherokee1.html Page 2 In 1828 the Western Cherokee agreed to exchange their Arkansas lands for a new location in Oklahoma. The boundaries were finally determined in 1833, although it took until 1835 to get the Osage to agree. The arrival of General Braddock with an English army in 1755 raised the spirits of the people, for they felt that a protector was at hand. After his defeat by the French and Indians, panic seized upon the back settlers, for well they knew the havoc that would be wrought upon them by the victorious savages. To the number of thousands they forsook their homes in the Valley and across the mountains in Piedmont Virginia, and fled to the Carolinas, seeking protection of the friendly Cherokee and Catawba tribes. http://www.myvirginiagenealogy.com/va_county/pi.htm http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/native_americans.htm http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/native_americans.htm#directoryoftribes http://www.lva.lib.va.us/whatwehave/native_americans.htm#directoryoftribes http://www.virginiaplaces.org/nativeamerican/index.html The real First Families of Virginia http://www.peak.org/csfa/index.html http://www.mariner.org/chesapeakebay/native/nam002.html http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=43266 http://www.virginia.org/site/description.asp?AttrID=10711 http://www.indianvillage.org/ http://www.vahistorical.org/lederer.htm Lederer may or may not have been the first European to reach the Valley of Virginia, but he was the first to publish an account of his discoveries. He was an astute observer of Indian customs and beliefs, and his book was the first scientific report on the western portion of Virginia. His influential map (shown here) provided new data about unknown areas, but it also contained several errors, most notably the "barren Sandy dessert" and a nonexistent lake in North Carolina that were often reproduced by other map makers. The Discoveries of John Lederer (1672) Lederer's expeditions inspired other explorers searching for passes through the mountains, and they helped to develop the fur trade with the Catawba and Cherokee. • See other items from the collections http://www.vahistorical.org/arvfind/snedenil5.htm ********************************************************************************* [PDF] Annual Report for 2003 File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML Contains rare plate of Cherokee Indians in Virginia and. North Carolina. 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