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Abingdon Downtown Walking Tour

  • Barter Fountain 110 West Main Street Abingdon, VA, 24210 United States (map)

Meet at the Barter Fountain (across from Barter Theatre) at 7pm to start this tour. Wear comfy shoes!

How are the salt industry, Shangri-La, Daniel Boone, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the American Southwest all connected to Abingdon? Join local historian and Abingdon native, Garrett Jackson, on this walking tour of Abingdon’s known and little-known history. Learn how a small frontier town became a center for the arts, culture, politics, and religion in Southwest Virginia, and how it is connected to locations nationally and internationally.

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