swinging bridge over Powell River on Swinging Bridge Road (Route 666)
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad bypassed Jonesville when it built its line to the Virginia coalfields in 1891
Source: Library of Congress, Boones map of the Black Diamond System of Railways (1896)
Lee County advertises that it is the beginning - not the end - of Virginia
Source: Lee County
Local folklore claimed that the physical feature now called Stone Face Rock at Pennington Gap was carved by Cherokee,. For years, the official designation by the Board of Geographic Names was Negro Head Rock.1
Stone Face Rock in Lee County was formerly called Negro Head Rock
Source: Wikipedia, Stone Face Rock and US Geological Survey (USGS), Pennington Gap, VA 1:24,000 topographic quadrangle (2019)