Barbara,the Claypool researcher-PATCH227@email.msn.com gave me a link to a web page about Cootes Store,in Brock's Gap,Va. Giles Turley,Tom Lincoln, the Sandusky's and Ruddle's, etc lived near. Even,1 year,Squire Boone. Site of an early Baptist church. Va-WV RT 259 crosses North Mt there. Since my Foulke's wre married into the Boone's, likely Fulk's Run is ours. Runyon's,Sevier's, Kiester's I spent a couple months finding,and researching the gap a couple years ago,but never seen photo's. Isaac Zane's Marlboro furnace in gap to the north. Sandusky's Love's gap to the south. McGary,McBride, Harrison, etc to early Ky. http://cootes.com/articles/ZackTurner.html Articles written in 1921 by schoolchildren in Cootes Store, Rockingham County, Virginia HOME TURLEYTOWN ARTICLES: The Landscape Dyer P. Neff 16 The Way It Was Turleytown or Turley as it is commonly called, was The Village founded in the latter part of the seventeenth century by The School a man named Turley, hence the name. Hunting-Fishing Poems It is located on the Little North Mountain road, leading First Grade from Winchester to Dayton and Bridgewater. The Students Turley kept store, hotel and postoffice for a number of PHOTOS: years prior to 1833. He was succeeded by Samuel L. People Cootes, who later in order to catch the traffic which had Cootes Home drifted towards the valley pike, moved to the present Cootes & Co, site now occupied by his grandson E. A. Cootes and his Tintypes great grandson D. F. Cootes. Family Bible 1 Turleytown first consisted of some half dozen dwellings, Family Bible carding machine, and flouring mill, blacksmith shop and 2 Presbyterian church. It now consists of about the same number of dwellings, a flouring mill and Baptist church. UPDATE: Flood of 1936 We have been told that near Turley was the birth place of Thomas Lincoln the father of Abraham Lincoln. We can not UPDATE 1999: vouch for the truth of this statement. We do know that Cootes Store his ancestors were from this county. Chimney Rock Gap Rock Before the Civil war the militia gathered here to muster. LINKS to These old inland villages are fast becoming a part of the genealogical past. They only exist now in the memory of the old resources people, and after while in the little magazines of our schools. e-mail carolyn@cootes.com Articles written in 1921 by schoolchildren in Cootes Store, Rockingham County, Virginia HOME ARTICLES: [post office.jpg (11862 bytes)] The Landscape The Way It HISTORY OF COOTES STORE Was The Village Mabel E. Turner, 13 The School Hunting-Fishing The little village of Cootes Store is located at the Poems junction of the roads leading from Broadway to Ft. First Grade Seybert W. Va. and from Dayton to the Orkney Spring The Students Grade. PHOTOS: Old documents show that the village is built either on People the Trumbo or Brock grant of land, which was issued by Cootes Home the English from Williamsburg about the year 1760. Cootes & Co, Tintypes There are several old buildings still standing but we Family Bible are not able to find out when they were built. The 1 Cootes house was built in 1834 by Samuel L. Cootes, who Family Bible came to this section from Pennsylvania. 2 A post office was established about a year after Mr. UPDATE: Cootes settled here. He was appointed postmaster. From Flood of 1936 this point mail was distributed for miles including Brocks Gap country. It was the home of Mr. Gailey, the UPDATE 1999: first mail carrier to Ft. Seybert. The mail was carried Cootes Store on horse back. Chimney Rock Gap Rock [post office sign.jpg (3416 bytes)] LINKS to In the same year that he built his house, Mr. Cootes genealogical built a storeroom in connection with his dwelling. Ever resources since that time there has been a store here under the firm name of Cootes and Son. e-mail carolyn@cootes.com The population is about fifty. There are two stores, a blacksmith shop, general repair shop and garage. Dr. E. G. Hall is the resident physician. There are two churches. Four denominations, the Methodist, United Brethren, Baptist and Reformed are represented here. There is a graded school with an enrollment of about one hundred. The place had a little skirmish in the Civil War. Here was the headquarters for the picket divisions guarding Brocks Gap. The union army was preparing to camp here when Rossers army came and drove them off. The bridge was burnt at that time. There was a company made up from this section known as the Brock Gap Riflemen, commanded by John Q. Winfield of Broadway. Not many other little villages in the Shenandoah Valley are more beautifully located. It is only about a half mile from Brocks Gap which is noted for its beautiful scenery.