Glade Hollow Fort

Glade Hollow was one of seven Forts established in Southwest Virginia during Dunmore's War of 1774. Hamilton, 1968 describes it as being between the towns of Lebanon and Dickensonville in modern Russell County, but the area known as Glade Hollow, is immediately north of the town of Lebanon; it may extend somewhat into the southeast, and explain Hamilton's placement. It was certainly on the Kentucky Trace, as Issac Crabtree in his pension application quoted by Hamilton, stated:


 * ''as they came to Glade Hollow Fort, they met about the same number of Indians. He, and Burton Litton and William Priest were some distance in front of the others when they met the Indians. The Indians were laying in ambush in two sink holes, and on each side of the Trace..."

Hamilton identifies the Trace as the Kentucky Trace, the northern branch of Boone's Road that passed ondown to Castlewood and beyond. In Castle's Woods, land records commonly mention a parcel's proximity to "the Kentucky Road", as it was sometimes known. No trace of Glade Hollow survives today, and its site is not marked by a Virginia State Historical Marker.