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Big Stone Gap, originally known as Three Forks, received its charter February 28, 1888. A post office was established April 12, 1856. In the early nineties it became the center of iron and coal development. It was the home and workshop of John Fox, Jr., novelist and author of “Trail of the Lonesome Pine.”
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Big Stone Gap, Virginia · United States
