{"id":3462,"date":"2013-01-22T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/?p=3462"},"modified":"2013-01-22T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T20:55:10","slug":"historic-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/historic-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Historic marker No. 43-K: <em>&#8220;Evan Shelby, noted Indian fighter, settled here about 1765 on a tract called &#8216;Sapling Grove.&#8217; His home was a neighborhood fort, the refuge of settlers in Indian attacks. Bristol grew around this place and became an early railroad center.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0 Virginia Conservation &amp; Development Commission, 1927.<\/p>\n<p>GPS coordinates: +36\u00b0 35&#8242; 42.28&#8243;, -82\u00b0 10&#8242; 49.64&#8243;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/historic-bristol\/historic-bristol-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3464\" alt=\"Historic Bristol 1\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Historic-Bristol-1-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Historic-Bristol-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Historic-Bristol-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Historic-Bristol-1.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/historic-bristol\/historic-bristol-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3510\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3510\" alt=\"Historic Bristol 2\" src=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Historic-Bristol-2-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"616\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Historic-Bristol-2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Historic-Bristol-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Historic-Bristol-2.jpg 1350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos June 2012 by Sharon Steele-Smith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Historic marker No. 43-K: &#8220;Evan Shelby, noted Indian fighter, settled here about 1765 on a tract called &#8216;Sapling Grove.&#8217; His home was a neighborhood fort, the refuge of settlers in Indian attacks. Bristol grew around this place and became an <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/historic-bristol\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historic-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/sullivan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}