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White Top Folk Festival
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The White Top Folk Festival grew out of a suggestion made to Abingdon attorney John Blakemore that a fiddler’s contest be held on White Top on the 4th…
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Appalachian Poets and Writers
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Representative works by Lee Smith, Lou Crabtree, and Dr. Samuel Miller including original fiction, stories, poetry, and drama.
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Abingdon Walks
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When Abingdon was laid out almost 250 years ago it was in a compact, neat grid. According to Margaret Rogers...
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Caboose
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"Located one block south of West Main Street in the Washington County town of Abingdon, the Depot Square Historic District began taking shape around…
Summers Law Office
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"Memorial to Lewis Preston Summers, Lawyer, Historian
Andrew Rowan Summers, Lawyer, Arttist, Musician
Presented to the Historical Society of…