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This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lee County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
Pennington Gap is located at (36.756580, −83.029375). [7] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km 2), all of it land. Pennington Gap is located at the junction of U.S. Route 58A and U.S. Route 421.
Lee County shares Cumberland Gap National Historical Park with Kentucky and Tennessee. Attractions listed in the park include Hensley's Settlement, the Pinnacle Overlook, the Sand Cave, and the White Rocks overlooking the towns of Ewing and Rose Hill in Virginia. Lee County is a dry county for hard liquor, although retail sales are permitted.
The community is concentrated along U.S. Route 421 near the Lee County/Scott County line in the Wallen Creek Valley. Duffield lies across Powell Mountain to the east, and Pennington Gap lies across Wallen Ridge to the northwest. A post office was established as Stickleysville in 1850. [3] The community was named for Vastine Stickley, a pioneer ...
Minor league baseball began in Pennington Gap, Virginia, when the 1937 Pennington Gap Lee Bears joined the four–team Appalachian League, which was reformed after a 12–year hiatus. The 1937 Pennington Gap Lee Bears finished the regular season with a 49–55 record, placing third in the standings with league members Elizabethton Betsy Red Sox ...
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Keokee is 15 miles (24 km) by road northeast of Pennington Gap, the largest town in Lee County, and 13 miles (21 km) west of Big Stone Gap. Virginia Secondary Route 624 leads north to the Kentucky border at the top of Little Black Mountain, where it becomes Kentucky Route 38 , which leads west down the Clover Fork of the Cumberland River valley ...