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The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
1908
Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Virginia
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
John Fox Jr wrote a coal-boom romance here in 1908 that sold a million copies, became one of the first films shot in Technicolor, and left the mountains with a stereotype they have been arguing with ever since. Big Stone Gap answered by staging it outdoors every summer since 1964, making it the official outdoor drama of Virginia. Adriana Trigiani grew up in town and got her own novels out of the same streets.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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