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This chimney was originally part of the home of William Christian, brother-in-law of Patrick Henry and a frontier militia commander, built about 1772 a mile downstream at a site now submerged by Claytor Lake. In 1808 it became the home of Thomas Cloyd, from whose descendants the present site and chimney stones were acquired. Reconstruction at this location was sponsored by the Pulaski County Sesquicentennial Commission, the Pulaski County Chapter of the New River Historical Society, and the Virginia Division of State Parks in 1989.
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