Walking In Tazewell Virginia, Main Street
A walk down Main Street in Tazewell VA.
Video taken March 14, 2019 around 1:00 PM
Map (blue line)
7458 Burkes Garden Road, Tazewell, VA
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Burkes Garden, Virginia- Gods Thumbprint!
Burke's Garden was first surveyed in 1748 by a team of surveyors working for local landowner James Patton. One of the party, James Burke, is said to have thrown away some potato peelings while cooking. A year later, when the party returned to the area, they found potatoes growing in the area where the peels had been left. The area was dubbed Burke's Garden as something of a joke, but the name stuck. The community was an outpost of German immigrants who settled in the backcountry frontier in the late 18th century.
The area remained relatively isolated as it was not near the transportation corridors of major rivers. In the late 19th century, agents for the Vanderbilt family contacted local farmers about selling land so that the family could build a large estate there. Nobody wanted to sell, and the Vanderbilts instead constructed their Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina. In the 1990s, a small number of Amish families moved to Burke's Garden, but later they moved out after being unable to purchase enough land and attract enough other Amish families to form a viable community. Today Amish have returned to Burkes Garden and have a thriving community. Lines of scooters can be seen daily outside the Burkes Garden School and Community Center where the Amish now have their own school. The General Store is owned by the Amish and visitors enjoy barbecue and sandwiches on thick slices of home baked bread.[citation needed]
The county's oldest church, the Central Lutheran Church, is located in Burke's Garden. It originally served multiple denominations so was called Union Church. When the congregation learned their Union Church had joined the Lutheran denomination most members left and established Methodist and Presbyterian churches. In 1952, the community was terrorized by the Varmint of Burke's Garden, a large coyote that killed many local sheep and caused much damage before being killed.
The area is drained by Wolf Creek (a tributary of the New River) which flows out of the geographic bowl in a northeasterly direction.
The entire valley is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Burke's Garden Rural Historic District; the Burke's Garden Central Church and Cemetery is also listed on the NRHP.
Burke's Garden , Virginia
Burke's Garden Road (Route 623, Tazewell County, VA.)
2016
Appalachian Trail Hiking at Burke's Garden in Southwest Virginia
This is a very short hike along the Appalachian Trail on Garden Mountain, in the Garden Mountain Wilderness Area, above Burke's Garden in southwest Virginia. Thanks for watching!
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Burke's Garden, Virginia on the Trans East Trail
My friends and I were on a week long tour of the Trans East Trail route posted on ADV Rider.
The route takes you into Burke's Garden via dirt road. You can also leave by another dirt road over the 3,500+ foot mountains. (It takes an hour each way). There is one paved road in and out of the town.
No commercial activity except for a general store run by a Mennonite woman. Like a step in time.
Burke's Garden
Tazewell County, Virginia
Known for its fertility and natural beauty, the bowl shaped Burke's Garden is the highest valley in Virginia. James Burke discovered it in the 1740's while hunting and settled here about 1754. After about four years Burke and his family moved to North Carolina, where he died in 1783. The threat of Indian attack and the remoteness of the area discouraged permanent white settlement until the early 19th century.
Source: Virginia historical marker
Tazewell Co VA
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Steele Cookin' In Tazewell Virginia -1
Steele Cookin' performing in Tazewell VA on 6/29/13
Burkes Garden Ride
Ride thru beautiful Burkes Garden in southwest Virginia in May 2007. If you have never heard of BG, google to find out more. It is a geological mystery and one of the prettiest places I have ever been. A must ride for any biker in the South.
Yes, Appalachian is spelled wrong on the Video.
Palm Street in Tazewell, VA
Home for sale with Regency Real Estate and Auction Company, in Southwest Virginia!
Ghost in Burkes Garden
This is an interview with one of our researchers for the VROU about a interesting picture taken in Burkes Garden Virginia
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Burke's Garden Sunday Drive Part 1 05-02-10
This is a natural bowl in the middle of Appalachia in Southwest Virginia. It is near Tazewell and Bluefield Virginia. A quick drive from Bluefield West Virginia. The picturesque farms and farm houses along with the farm animals and the mountains make for a spectacular viewing video.
Kegley Family Buggy, 1900
Stephen and Sarah Elizabeth Kegley bought the Foot & Johnson buggy about 1900 for the purpose of travelling from their farm in Wythe County to the Lutheran Church's regular meeting at Burkes Garden in Tazewell County. The buggy is constructed primarily of painted wood and iron with fabric curtains that can be snapped in place for protection from the weather and features two bench seats upholstered in leather. Constructed by an historic Virginia buggy manufacturer and descended from a prominent family of early Virginia settlers, it represents early modes of transportation at the turn of the 20th century. Photo courtesy of the Historical Society of Western Virginia.
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Clinchport, Virginia - Virginia's Smallest Town
Clinchport is the smallest town in Virginia with a population of 70 as of the 2010 census. The town had a population of upwards of 300 in the 1970s until the infamous Flood of '77 wiped out many of the homes and businesses. The town has never recovered since that time period.
Marion, Virginia - A rainy day is still a good day to drive through the town
Marion, Virginia - A rainy day is still a good day to drive through the town. Marion has a vibrant downtown and is a great destination town in Southwest Virginia.
Tazewell County, Virginia
Before the arrival of pioneers Tazewell County was a hunting ground for Native Americans. Although rare in the eastern United States, there are petroglyphs near the summit of Paintlick Mountain.
In the spring of 1771 Thomas and John Witten established the first permanent settlement in Tazewell County at Crab Orchard.
Tazewell County was created on December 20, 1799. The land for the county was taken from portions of Wythe and Russell Counties. It was named after Henry Tazewell, a United States Senator from Virginia as well as a state legislator and judge. Delegate Littleton Waller Tazewell originally opposed the formation of the new county but when Simon Cotterel, who drew up the bill to form the county, changed the originally proposed name of the county to Tazewell's namesake, in honor of his father Henry who had died months earlier, the bill passed.
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This video was taken on Route 460, around the Pounding Mill area.
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