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Giles County covers 369 square miles and was formed in 1806 from Montgomery, Tazewell, and Monroe counties; it was named for William B. Giles, United States Senator and Governor of Virginia from 1827 to 1830, and Mountain Lake is in the county. Pulaski County covers 333 square miles and was formed in 1839 from Wythe and Montgomery counties; it was named for Count Casimir Pulaski, who was killed at the siege of Savannah in 1779, and the New River flows through the county.
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