Category:Pioneer Forts of Southwest Virginia

This category includes pioneer forts of southwest Virginia primarily dating from the period 1774 (Dunmore's War] to 1792 (cessation of Indian attacks on the Virginia Frontier). Some of the forts were substantial, palisaded structures, designed as athering places for the settlers during times of danger.  Others were designed as "Fort Houses", and were intended for the protection of the owners family, or at most his family and that of a neighbor or two.  The only surviving example of such Fort Houses is Kilgore's Fort in Russell County, VA.  None of the palisaded forts have survived, though a reconstruction of Wittens Crab Orchard Fort can be seen in Tazewell, Tazewell County,  Virginia.