Rockbridge County was formed in 1777 thanks to Benjamin Borden's 92,100 acre land grant. Lexington, the county seat, was established in 1778 by mostly Scots-Irish families ...

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Wythe County was founded in 1790. German and Scots-Irish settlers traveled the Wilderness Road through what is now Wytheville's Main Street. In 1792, a place near the middle ...

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