• Fincastle County, Virginia, was created by act of the Virginia General Assembly April 8, 1772 from Botetourt County. As the colonial government considered...
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    Fincastle is a town in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. The population was 755 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Botetourt County...
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  • community Fincastle, Virginia, United States Fincastle Historic District, Fincastle, VA Fincastle County, Virginia, a former county Viscount of Fincastle, a...
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    County, Virginia. This county was the precursor to the Commonwealth of Kentucky and was formed from Fincastle County, Virginia, in 1776". Fincastle is...
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    County is part of the Roanoke Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the county seat is the town of Fincastle. As of the 2020 census, the county...
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  • The Fincastle Resolutions was a statement reportedly adopted on January 20, 1775, by fifteen elected representatives of Fincastle County, Virginia. Part...
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  • the Colony of Virginia. He represented Fincastle County in the House of Burgesses and as relations with Britain soured, signed the Fincastle Resolutions...
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    County was first bounded in 1772, when all of what is now the state of Kentucky was in the frontier county of Fincastle County, Virginia. Fincastle was...
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    County was first bounded in 1772, when all of what is now the state of Kentucky was in the frontier county of Fincastle County, Virginia. Fincastle was...
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    Virginia Colony. He led an early attempt to settle the "Kentuckee Territory" (then part of Virginia). He was a justice of Fincastle County, Virginia....
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    1777 from Fincastle County, which in turn had been taken from Botetourt County. As of the 2020 census, the population was 99,721. Its county seat is Christiansburg...
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    County was first bounded in 1772, when all of what is now the state of Kentucky was in the frontier county of Fincastle County, Virginia. Fincastle was...
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    Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia are those that existed within the English Colony of Virginia or, after statehood, the Commonwealth of Virginia...
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  • dependency of Virginia, its earliest counties were organized by that government. See also Virginia & Virginia Colony, below Fincastle County, Virginia, proclaimed...
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    The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes...
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    at Greenfield, is a historic plantation site located at Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. It is the site of a large forced-labor farm AKA enslaved...
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    West Virginia. The fort was originally known as Fort Fincastle and was named for Viscount Fincastle, Lord Dunmore, Royal Governor of Virginia. Later...
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  • The Fincastle Turnpike, also known as the "Fincastle and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company", was approved in 1834 by the Virginia General Assembly to maintain...
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    County was first bounded in 1772, when all of what is now the state of Kentucky was in the frontier county of Fincastle County, Virginia. Fincastle was...
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    with the creation of Fincastle County, Virginia in 1772, representing trans-Allegheny Virginia, encompassing most of West Virginia, all of Kentucky, and...
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  • The First Baptist Church of Fincastle, Virginia was started in October 1831 by slaves in Fincastle, Virginia, United States. During this period, slaves...
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    known as Prospect and Gray's Folly, is a historic home near Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. Built in 1837–1838, it is a 2+1⁄2-story, single-pile, wood...
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  • educated in Virginia at a school run by his uncle, the Rev. John Todd. After obtaining a license to practice law, Todd settled in Fincastle, Virginia. He and...
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    Fincastle Historic District is a national historic district located at Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia. It encompasses nine contributing buildings...
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  • Stephen Trigg (category Signers of the Fincastle Resolutions)
    delegate to the first Virginia revolutionary conventions, and was a member of the Fincastle Committee of Safety that drafted the Fincastle Resolutions, a precursor...
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  • William Ingles (category Signers of the Fincastle Resolutions)
    colonist and soldier in colonial Virginia. He participated in the Sandy Creek Expedition and was a signatory of the Fincastle Resolutions. He was eventually...
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  • American Revolutionary War as well as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Campbell County, Tennessee, was named after him. He was a brother-in-law...
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    was a colonel in the Virginia militia during the American Revolutionary War. He was one of the fifteen signatories of the Fincastle Resolutions. Preston...
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  • S. Federal Census, Botetourt county, both unstated and Fincastle enumerations "Fincastle Presbyterian Church". Virginia Museum of History & Culture. Retrieved...
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    the Big Sandy River and Cumberland Mountains) of Fincastle County effective 1777. The name of the county was taken from a Native American place name that...
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