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| Pendleton's History Of Tazewell County And Southwest Virginia |
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| Table Of Contents |
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Aboriginal Period |
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Chap. 1 |
Origin of the Red men; their distribution, civilization, character, etc. | |||||
| Chap. 2 | Nations and tribes north of Mexico | 15 - 57 | ||||
| Chap. 3 | The Indians; their civilizations, government, manners, and religion | 58 - 69 | ||||
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Period Of Discovery And Colonization |
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| Chap. 1 | Spanish and French discoveries and conquests | 73 - 84 | ||||
| Chap. 2 | French discoveries and settlements | 85 - 98 | ||||
| Chap. 3 | Birth of American Nation -- English Settlement at Jamestown | 99 - 129 | ||||
| Chap. 4 | From death of James I to 1676 | 130 - 137 | ||||
| Chap. 5 | Bacon's Rebellion and discovery of Shenandoah Valley | |||||
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Pioneer Period |
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| Chap. 1 | Settlement of Shenandoah and Roanoke Valleys | |||||
| Chap. 2 | The Walker and Gist expeditions | 171 - 185 | ||||
| Chap. 3 | French and Indian War | 186 - 203 | ||||
| Chap. 4 | Drapers Meadows Massacre and other Tragic Incidents | 204 - 217 | ||||
| Chap. 5 | Holston Valley invaded by Indians -- The Sandy expedition | 218 - 223 | ||||
| Chap. 6 | Why settlements delayed in Clinch Valley | |||||
| Chap. 7 | The Tazewell Pioneer Settlers | 231 - 270 | ||||
| Chap. 8 | Frontiers of Fincastle County invaded by Indians | 271 - 289 | ||||
| Chap. 9 | Fincastle men called for Ohio expedition -- Indians invade Clinch and Holston settlements | 290 - 310 | ||||
| Chap. 10 | Battle of Point Pleasant -- Kentucky opened for settlement | 311 - 334 | ||||
| Chap. 11 | The Revolutionary War | 335 - 352 | ||||
| Chap. 12 | First Constitutional Convention -- Declares United Colonies free and independent States -- Declaration of Rights and Constitution adopted | 353 - 360 | ||||
| Chap. 13 | Kentucky, Washington and Montgomery Counties are formed | 361 - 369 | ||||
| Chap. 14 | Clark's expedition to Illinois, and Battle of King's Mountain | 370 - 397 | ||||
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Appendices -- Pioneer Period |
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| A. | Sketches of Pioneer Families | |||||
| B. | Massacres by Indians | 434 - 468 | ||||
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Ante-Bellum, or Formative Period |
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| Chap. 1 | Organization of Tazewell County | |||||
| Chap. 2 | Boundaries and Topography of Tazewell County | |||||
| Chap. 3 | Interesting sections of county -- The head of Clinch Valley | |||||
| Chap. 4 | Development of political, social, and industrial character of its people | 517 - 529 | ||||
| Chap. 5 | The roads of Tazewell County -- Growth in population and wealth, etc. | 530 - 546 | ||||
| Chap. 6 | The origin and descent of Tazewell County | |||||
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War And Reconstruction Period |
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| Chap. 1 | Principle causes of the Civil War | 563 - 598 | ||||
| Chap. 2 | The Harper's Ferry Insurrection | 585 - 592 | ||||
| Chap. 3 | The Presidential election of 1860 | 593 - 598 | ||||
| Chap. 4 | Virginia holds convention and secedes from Union | 599 - 605 | ||||
| Chap. 5 | What Tazewell did in the war | 606 - 637 | ||||
| Appendix to War and Reconstruction Period | 638 - 654 | |||||
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Post Bellum, Or Development, Period |
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| Chap. 1 | County recovers from effects of Civil War | |||||
| Chap. 2 | Prosperity returns to Tazewell County | |||||
| Appendix -- List of men from Tazewell County in World War 1914 -- Army and Navy | ||||||
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Copyright ©2000, 2001. Amy E. Armstrong. All Rights Reserved.
