Centennial Marker for Goodson-Bristol, VA
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vhasler
N 36° 35.805 W 082° 10.887
17S E 394324 N 4050789
100 years since the founding of Goodson, now known as Bristol, VA
Waymark Code: WM9Y7B
Location: Virginia, United States
Date Posted: 10/15/2010
Views: 6
Marker text:
To Honor
The Founding of
Goodson-Bristol
1890 Virginia 1990
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Centennial Celebration
February 12
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Bristol Historical Association
Actually, Bristol on the Virginia side started out as two towns: Goodsonville and Sapling Grove.
Over 50 years earlier, in 1799, John Goodson purchased the other portion of Sapling Grove from the heirs of Isaac Baker. This survey begins north of Beaver Creek and downtown Bristol Virginia. His son, Colonel Samuel Eason Goodson, formed a community named Goodsonville Virginia on that tract of land adjourning Anderson's Bristol Virginia. The original 1852 plats of Bristol & Goodsonville are clear on the borders of each community. In 1856, due to complications with having an incorporated city in two states, Bristol Virginia and Goodsonville combined and were incorporated as Goodson Virginia, in honor of Colonel Goodson. Controversy in recent years are the result of the confusion held in early Goodson. Many citizen's in the town were still loyal to Anderson, whom they originally purchased their property from. Who founded current Bristol Virginia, Goodson or Anderson? Technically both did, as both surveys overlapped in the same year. The founding over the years has casually been attributed to Colonel Goodson, who definitely was the founder of Goodsonville. In spite of this, Anderson laid-out most of the land in urban Bristol Virginia & Tennessee.
Subject: City
Commemoration: 100
Date of Founding: 1890
Date of Commemoration: 1990
Address:
Intersection of Cumberland and Lee Streets
Overview Photograph:
Yes
Detail Photograph:
Yes
Web site if available: Not listed
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