Place:Wolf Hill Tract, Washington, Virginia, United States

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NameWolf Hill Tract
TypeSettlement
Located inWashington, Virginia, United States
See alsoAbingdon, Washington, Virginia, United States

About Wolf Hill Tract

Wolf Hill Tract was a settlement in Colonial Virginia first surveyed in 1750 and is now the town of Abingdon. Some settlers lived on these lands in the 1750s but fled because of the French and Indian War (1754-1763). Despite a wide spread belief, Daniel Boone had nothing to do with the naming of the Wolf Hill Tract. The first report of his being in the area was in 1761. Only in 1769 did permanent settlement begin. Most of the early settlers lived in America a generation or more before moving down the Valley of Virginia from Pennsylvania. A large percentage of them were of Scotch-Irish and German stock. Others had come from a number of other locations almost all in Protestant northern Europe. They travelled along what was usually called the Great Road or the Philadelphia Road, now Interstate Highway 81.
Sources:
Washington County, Virginia History