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The Damascus Enterprise Company, of which General Imboden was head, helped to organize the Abingdon Coal and Iron Railway Company with the purpose of bringing a railroad from Abingdon to the lumber lands near Damascus.

Describes early history of the Methodist Church in Damascus. Photo of the Methodist Church, built in 1903.

Image showing Mock's Chapel (Lutheran Church)

Brief historical sketch of Rambo family. According to Mrs. Hall among the earliest settlers in Damascus. Accompanying image shows the Rambo family's log home, site of the earliest Post Office in Damascus.

Newspaper article describing the early history of Damascus.

Brief biographical sketch of the Hall family (c. 1900).
Initial Charter of Incorporation for the Town of Damascus, August, 1904

Mrs.Hall, standing on the porch of her house on Laurel Ave. in Damascus

When she died in 2008, Mrs. Hall’s children, Jack Hall, Eleanor Hutton and Marilou Preston, donated her papers and other effects to the library to be used as an archive for those interested in her life and the life of the community she loved and…

“Nature, undisturbed and pure, as God would put in that other paradise. (New York critic said I let the birds and trees take over.) With living in Price Hollow, taking an astronomy course I was able to locate the heavenly paradise.”
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Lee Smith and Lou Crabtree met in 1980 at a literary event in Abingdon during the Virginia Highlands Festival, a meeting which was humorously detailed in Lee Smith's reflection on her writing life, Dimestore. It was a portentuous meeting, as they…