April 16, 2024
Tag: Cumberland Gap Trail
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Virginia Beach’s Daniel Boone Historic Monument
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History is jammed and packed full of mysteries like the one brought to light in this article. The questions are most frequently, “What is it?” “Where did it come from?” and “Who put it there?”. Guest contributor, Gordon Spence, President of the Hampton Roads (Virginia) Postcard Club, examines the history and the mysterious disappearance of…
Past Article
John Luther Jones was born March 14, 1863, first worked on a railroad in Kentucky and at age 25 had enough seniority to join the Illinois Central. Opportunities for advancement were good at ICRR and records show Jones was promoted to engineer on February 23, 1891 and his name first appears on the register book of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers on March 10, 1891. Read the story of that tragic night in April 1900 when Casey Jones became a man around whom a legend grew.