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Big Stone Gap

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Big Stone Gap

Town in southwestern Virginia, 42 km/26 mi northwest of Kingsport, Tennessee, at the head of the Powell River in the Cumberland Mountains; population (1990) 4,700. It has been a coalmining town since the 1890s, when the railway arrived, and is also a mountain resort centre.

Mountain Empire Community College (1970) is here. The area is the setting for US novelist John Fox's Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908).



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