Attractions » History
Higginbotham House Museum - More Info
Pisgah Road
Tazewell, VA 24651
Phone: (276) 988-3800
Located on Pisgah Road directly across US 19/460 from Crab Orchard Museum and Pioneer Park. Beautiful high-styled house museum with gardens. Colonial collections/exhibitions featured.
Harry W. Meador Coal Museum - More Info
East Third Street and Shawnee Avenue
Big Stone Gap, VA 24219
Phone: (276) 523-9209
Museum features exhibits and objects collected by the late Harry Meador Jr., an executive with a local coal company. Museum property once served as the study of John Fox Jr, author of "Trail of the Lonesome Pine".The founder of the museum, Harry W. Meador, was an advocate of the coal mining industry. During his career, he rose from a union laborer to the Vice President of Coal Development for a local coal company.Once part of the John Fox, Jr. estate, the house was a two room building that served as a library and study. Later a wing was added and the building served as a community center for dances and other activities. Various displays exist in the museum, including a collection of photographs, mining equipment and tools, office equipment, coal company items, and a small dentist office from the early 1900's.
Dante Coal Mining and Railroad Museum - More Info
30 Streight Hollow Road
Dante, VA 24237
Phone: (276) 495-8103
The Dante Coal mining and Railroad Museum invites visiters to enjoy exhibits of coal and railroad memorabilla, donated by the residents and former residents of Dante and the surrounding commumnity. This building is now the home of the DANTE HISTORY PROJECT display, which traveled around Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky for two years
in the late 1990's. School groups are particularly welcome to visit the Museum so that students can meet miners and railroad workers and learn about life and work in the company coal town.
Plans for the future include a simulated mine entrance which will be built in the old Bank Vault.
Directions to the museum are coming from St. Paul on route
63 to Dante turne left on 608 go .5 of a mile, coming from Clintwood on route 63 to Dante turn right on 627 go .6 to the museum.
Dante Coal Miner’s Memorial - More Info
State Route 63
Dante, VA 24237
Phone: (276) 495-1903
Dante was once the headquarters of the Clinchfield Coal Corporation and home to thousands of coal miners and their families. The Coal Miner's Memorial honors those Dante men who worked in the mines and gives special recognition to those who died underground. Names have been placed on the memorial by family and friends. Volunteers maintain the site. The Dante Coal and Railroad Museum is headquarters to Dante's living history to include information about the memorial, the history of the "coal camp" etc. The museum houses a wealth of information about the community's history as well as memorabilia, photos and video. A model has been created depicting how the community once thrived.
Carter Family Fold - More Info
Carter Family Fold
Hiltons, VA 24258
Website: www.carterfamilyfold.org
Phone: (276) 645-0035
E-mail: info@carterfamilyfold.org
The Carter fold is a rustic, 1,000 seat music shed offering traditional music every Saturday night. Museum opens an hour prior to the show. The Carter Family was discovered in 1927 by Victor Recording Studio in Bristol and recorded 300 songs between 1927 and 1942. Playing traditional Appalachian music, the family has often been credited as forerunners of modern-day country music.
Today, A.P. Carter's old general store acts as a museum. Recent additions include the newly moved and reconstructed original A.P. Carter Homeplace.
A.P. Carter Museum - More Info
Carter Family Fold
Hiltons, VA 24258
Website: www.carterfamilyfold.org
Phone: (276) 645-0035
E-mail: info@carterfamilyfold.org
A.P. Carter's old general store has been converted into a museum that houses the collections of A.P. Carter, his wife Sara and her cousin Maybelle, who as The Carter Family, were the pioneers of what was to become country music. Artifacts include photos, books, and musical instruments, show clothes, 78rpm recordings and many other memorabilia, such as items donated by family members June and Johnny Cash.
Located next door to the museum, is the old log cabin where A.P. was born. Recently restored, it showcases life in southwest Virginia during the early 1900's and includes many family antiques and collectibles.
Emma Yates Memorial Library - More Info
179 Center Street
Pocahontas, VA 24635
Phone: (276) 945-9448
Emma Yates Memorial Library - Once the home and milliner shop of Miss Emma Yates (1869-1954).
