...-Bristol Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area - commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.
Places to go in Abingdon
The town of Abingdon is located in Washington County in the Blue Ridge Highlands region of Virginia. It was named after the ancestral home of Martha Washington.
Cultural events are held at the William King Regional Arts Center and the Barter Theatre, which is considered the "State Theatre of Virginia" and one of the longest-running professional regional theatres in the nation.
William King Regional Arts Center is the only facility of its kind serving far Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. Located in an historic 1913 building — a renovated former school — the Arts Center houses galleries of regional and international art, including contemporary works and historical decorative arts.
Abingdon is a Virginia Historic Landmark and its 20-square block Historic District includes the Fields-Penn 1860 House Museum, which shows how a typical family lived in the pre-Civil War period; Cave House Craft Shop in a Victorian landmark; Arts Depot, an 1870 restored railroad station; and the Martha Washington Inn, a Four-Star, Historic Hotel of America, which was built in 1832.
Fields-Penn 1860 House Museum offers guided tours that interpret 19th-century life in Southwest Virginia. The home's original owners enjoyed status in the emerging middle class: the Fields in the years on the eve of the Civil War, and the Penns in the gilded 1890s.
As a brick mason and building contractor, James Fields built his home in 1860, for wife, Susan, and their eight children, in the latest American style. The family of George and Estelle Penn moved into the house in the 1890s and made it their home for 75 years.
Abingdon is one of the towns along The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail and is the place for the annual Virginia Highlands Festival, one
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