The first pioneers to explore the Tazewell area were the long hunters, surveyors, and land speculators. In 1750, Dr. Thomas Walker remarked in his diary on the lush grass, plentifulness of game, and large quantities of coal. The town of Tazewell, settled in 1799 and incorporated in 1870, was first called Jeffersonville Township in honor of third U.S. president and native Virginian Thomas Jefferson. Over 200 years have passed, but the region's mountains and vast areas of pastureland remain unspoiled. Tazewell now serves as the seat and one of the most historic areas in Tazewell County.
Founder James Burke thought he had found a new Garden of Eden when he first saw Burke's Garden, the unique basin completely surrounded by mountains in Tazewell County. Called God's Thumbprint by modern poets, the fertile land was carved from the southern Appalachians after centuries of natural erosion. Today its scenic beauty is appreciated and protected by the residents who have settled on the rich farmlands. These early photographs of Burke's Garden, including the first homes and settlers, tell a story of the importance of land and family traditions.
James C. Ramey grew up in very humble circumstances going to work early in life to support his family including a disabled father. Nevertheless, playing football for the Tazewell High School Bulldogs, driving a school bus to and from school and working after hours at a local service station gave Ramey a solid underpinning and strong work ethic. At graduation Ramey left to fight for his country in Korea. With $1,500 that he had saved and sent to his mother during his time in the service, Ramey bought three cars, cleaned them up, painted them and parked the vehicles in the front yard of his mother's house at Adria in Tazewell, Virginia. This meager endeavor was the beginning of an automotive empire that eventually included more than fifteen dealerships employing more than 1,000 persons across three states. This photo history recounts this narrative of a success story rarely paralleled in history.
The Cove at Maiden Spring is about a land hidden away in Tazewell County, Virginia and inhabited long before the modern invention of automobiles, television and air travel. In this book most of the pictures of the early homes, businesses and the people of the Cove emphasize the community in the first half of the twentieth century and before.--Introduction.
One of the most revealing things about national character is the way that citizens react to and report on their travels abroad. Oftentimes a tourist's experience with a foreign place says as much about their country of origin as it does about their destination. A Happy Holiday examines the travels of English-speaking Canadian men and women to Britain and Europe during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It describes the experiences of tourists, detailing where they went and their reactions to tourist sites, and draws attention to the centrality of culture and the sensory dimensions of overseas tourism. Among the specific topics explored are travellers' class relationships with people in the tourism industry, impressions of historic landscapes in Britain and Europe, descriptions of imperial spectacles and cultural sights, the use of public spaces, and encounters with fellow tourists and how such encounters either solidified or unsettled national subjectivities. Cecilia Morgan draws our attention to the important ambiguities between empire and nation, and how this relationship was dealt with by tourists in foreign lands. Based on personal letters, diaries, newspapers, and periodicals from across Canada, A Happy Holiday argues that overseas tourism offered people the chance to explore questions of identity during this period, a time in which issues such as gender, nation, and empire were the subject of much public debate and discussion.
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