Washington Co. > Homes and Buildings > Glade Spring area - 1821 and 1890 maps

The first two maps below were created 70 years apart. The 1821 map focused on the buildings along the Great Wagon Rd. whereas the 1890 map covered a wider area. Many of the homes identified by owner on the 1821 map are also identified by owner on the 1890 map. See charts below the 1890 map.

1821 - John Wood Map

The brown line indicates the Old Wagon Rd./Old Stage Road. The wide, wavy line below it is the Middle Fork of the Holston River. Locate Glade Spring Church as a reference point.
Section from the 1821 John Wood Map of Washington Co., VA; image courtesy of the Library of Virginia

1890 - C.R. Boyd Map

This map also shows the Old Stage Rd., Glade Spring Church and the Middle Fork of the Holston River. Many additional roads are indicated, as well as a railroad line.
Section from the 1890 (pub) Map of Washington County, Va. and Contiguous Territories by C.R. Boyd; image courtesy of the Library of Virginia

The 3 charts below list several homes that were identified on both maps. Column 1 lists the owner's name on the 1821 map and column 2 lists the owner on the 1890 map. The charts also identify a few homes that were labeled on one map but not the other. Following the chart is an additional map showing the parcels of land associated with several of the early buildings.

Homes and Buildings along the Great Wagon Rd.

1821 Map1890 MapComment
Col. Byar's Mrs. Ernest In 1821 Col Byars lived at the first Brook Hall; a few years later he built the much larger (second) Brook Hall across the Great Rd. It was occupied by his daughter, Amanda (Byars) Ernest in 1890
Glade Church Gl Sp Church See the slideshow showing wind damage sustained by the church in 2009
Widow Talbut Mrs. Horn The "widow Talbot" was Mary (Logan) Talbert. She and her husband Bazel purchased 328 acres on both sides of the Great Rd. from George and Ann Kincannon in 1807. Bazel and Mary ran a stagecoach inn on the property. Bazel died in 1818, but Mary continued to run the inn. After Mary's death the inn was owned by her daughter and son-in-law Isaac and Eliza (Talbert) Horne who outlived both of their children. "Mrs. Horn" on the 1890 map was Ann Elizabeth (Gose) Horne, the widow of Isaac and Eliza's son William Talbert Horne. Ann Elizabeth's son William Basil Horne, who was 18 in 1890, lived in the old inn until his death in 1960
Rob't Clark's Clark James Clark and Isabella (Breckenridge) Clark purchased 70 acres fronting the Great Rd. from George and Ann Kincannon in 1798. There they built their home, adding additional acreage over the years. James' 1818 will left the family home to his sons Robert and Peter. Robert was charged with managing the farm until Peter was of age. Although Peter eventually owned the home Robert was still in charge in 1821. On Peter's death in 1880 the farm passed to his sons John and Thomas who, along with their sister Emily, resided in it in when the 1890 map was drawn. Be sure to read the page on the old James and Isabella Clark home which includes photos of the home as it looks now (restored) and as it looked at the time the 1890 map was created.
Jno Clark's J.B. Clark In 1807 James and Isabella Clark purchased 342 acres on both sides of the Great Rd. to add to the 70 acres mentioned above. In 1812 they sold 140 acres on the south side of the Great Rd. to their son John who built a log home on the land. It was the first of a cluster of Clark homes on the south side of the Old Stage Rd.. John and his wife Mary (Beattie) Clark left the land to their sons James and John Breckenridge Clark. "J.B." and his wife Dollie (Williams) Clark resided on the property in 1890.
  B.M. McNew By location, this appears to be the home originally owned by the Shugart family who ran an inn along the Great Rd. Zachariah Shugart acquired the land from Philip Griever in 1820. The land later passed to Zachariah's son Claiborne whose heirs sold it to the McNew family in the late 1800s.
Meek's Stone House   See photo on the Homes and Buildings page. The home was dismantled several years ago.

Homes south of the Great Wagon Rd.

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  Jas M. Byars James M. Byars was the son of Col. Byars of Brook Hall. Col. Byars owned several tracts of land including part of the old Thompson tract southeast of Glade Spring. Prior to James' marriage to Virginia Watson in 1865 Col. Byars settled James on this land. James remodeled the house for his new wife who died in 1873. The home is now known as Ft. Kilmackronen

Homes north of the Great Wagon Rd.

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  C.W. McKinney Charles McKinney married Mary Beattie in 1879. Mary inherited Morningside, the beautiful home built by her father Madison Beattie in the 1850s. Madison was the son of William Beattie who himself inherited a large tract of land from his father, John Beattie. John Beattie purchased over 2,000 acres in 1783, stretching from Emory to east of present day Glade Spring.
  Mrs. E.C. Edmondson Mrs. "E." C. Edmondson was actually Fannie C. Edmondson, who married William Edmondson, son of Robert Buchanan Edmonson and Nancy Dysart Beattie, in 1863. Robert built the brick home in which Fannie lived in 1890. William died in 1874 leaving Fannie and 6 young children.
  Byers William B. Byars was 75 years old in 1890. His home, now called Woodburn, was build in the 1850s on land that was originally part of John Beattie's huge tract.
  Hutton In 1890 Missouri Ellen Hutton, widow of James Dixon Hutton, lived in what has come to be known as the Hutton Plantation. James died in 1887, having inherited the home from his father Arthur Hutton in 1875. The brick structure sat on land originally granted to Arthur's grandfather John Hutton in 1792.

USGS map and plats

I have marked five homes on a 1969 USGS map and added associated land plats. Additional information about the land follows the map.
USGS topo map revised 1969 from an earlier edition (plats added using DeedMapper software)

Tracts Associated with the USGS Map

TractComment
A On Nov. 26th, 1807 James and Agnes Dysart of Lincoln Co., KY sold 615 acres to William Byars for $5,000 (Washington Co., VA Deed Bk 3:631). The tract included 248 acres gifted to James Dysart by his father-in-law John Beattie on Dec. 8, 1791 (WCV DB 1:7)
B Francis Kincannon received a grant fro 328 acres on the Middle Fork of the Holston River from the Virginia Land Office on Jul 5, 1785 (VA Grants Q:395). Before his death, Francis gifted 2 acres of this tract to the Gladespring congregation of the Presbyterian Church for a meeting place and burial ground. Francis left the tract to his son Mathew. Mathew then sold the land to John Edmiston and John Robinson. John Edmiston sold the upper part of the tract which included the 2 acres for the church to John Robinson in Oct. 1812. Finally, on Feb. 15, 1814, John Robinson executed the deed to transfer the 2 acres to the congregation (WCV DB 5: 139, 365).
C, C-D On Jul 5, 1785 Francis Kincannon received a second grant from the VA Land Office. This one, for 390 acres, sat to the east of his 328 acre parcel (VA Grants Q:407). Francis left this land to his son George, who sold 70 acres from the northeast edge of the tract to James Clark on Feb. 12, 1798 (WCV DB 2:39). On Oct. 19, 1807 George (and Ann) Kincannon sold the remainder of the tract (328 acres) to Bazel Talbert for $2,666.66 (WCV DB 3:615)
D This represents a Sept. 19, 1828 survey (WCV SB 2:508) of 400 acres ordered by the Washington Co. Court. It included land owned by James and Isabelle Clark's sons John, Robert, Peter and James. The survey did not include the 70 acres James Clark Sr. acquired from Francis Kincannon, or 50 acres James Sr. received as a grant in 1815 (VA Grants 65:72). Oddly, it did include 53 acres James Sr. sold to James Hutton in 1817 (WCV DB 6:413). The heirs of James Hutton divided the 53 acres in Oct. and Nov. 1828, suggesting these transactions may have necessitated the survey. (WCV DB 11:167 and DB 16:305).
E Parcel E (abt 357 acres) represents an 1893 deed from Claiborne Shugart to Daniel McNew (WCV DB 51:208). Claiborne died in 1884; the transaction came about as a result of a lawsuit that appears to have involved his family. The bulk of the tract was part of a 400 acre parcel granted to Philip Griever/Greever on July 15, 1785 (VA Grants Q:386). Griever sold 31 acres to Andrew Scott in 1804 (WCV DB 3:116). On March 18, 1820 Griever sold the remainder to Z. [Zachariah] Shugart, who left the tract to his son Claiborne. Claiborne added 10 acres (to include a spring) to the eastern side of the tract (above the Great Rd.) in Feb. 1860 (WCV DB25:368).