9781570722561
Southwest Virginia Crossroads: An Almanac of Place Names and Places to See share button
Joe Tennis
Genre Reference
Format Paperback
Dimensions 8.42 (w) x 10.96 (h) x 0.33 (d)
Pages 166
Publisher Overmountain Press, The
Publication Date June 2004
ISBN 9781570722561
Book ISBN 10 1570722560
About Book
Southwest Virginia Crossroads explores a 17 county region adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway and explains how more than 750 places took their names, including Haysi, Frog Level, Whitetop, Goose Pimple Junction, Butcher Knife, Burke's Garden, Lebanon and Fancy Gap. Featuring 39 maps and 138 original photographs, this illustrated history and guide also points the way to rivers, lakes, museums, roadside oddities, historic sites, fishing spots and 50 waterfalls from Blacksburg to Abingdon, Bristol, and Big Stone Gap.
Reviews

Abingdon Virginian

It's a mesmerizing, detailed, brilliantly researched account of our region which will make the public proud of where they came from.
—C. Robert Weisfeld

Country Current

It gives Southwest Virginia a voice, and illustrates the charm and beauty of our locality.
—Maggi Elliott

Kingsport Times-News

Fascinating and well-illustrated.
—George Thwaites

Style Weekly

The kind of book you want to own.
—Valley Haggard

The Roanoke Times

Possibly the most comprehensive body of work on the rural mountainous western part of the state.
—Lynn Davis

The Virginian-Pilot

A crackerjack guidebook ... A jewel box of wayfaring treasure.
—Bill Ruehlmann