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Paint Bank is an unincorporated community in northern Craig County, Virginia, United States. It is located at the intersection of State Route 18 and State Route 311 northwest of the town of New Castle, the county seat.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Google Maps )〕 The village is located between Potts Mountain and Peters Mountain. ==History== Paint Bank got its name from the iron ochre and red clay taken from the banks of Potts Creek that was used by Native Americans, notably the Cherokees, as war paint, and to make their pottery with a distinctive red color.〔(Highroad Guide to the Virginia Mountains ). by Deane Winegar. 2002. Page 143.〕 Reportedly settled by permanent settlers in the 18th century, during the early days of the 19th century, the same red clay was later made into a commercial paint and red bricks for permanent buildings. A number of land grants were made by Lord Fairfax and the Commonwealth of Virginia, especially by the later around Paint Bank in the 1820s through the 1850s.〔(Sims Index to Land Grants in West Virginia. )〕 A few miles up the road between Sweet Springs, West Virginia and Paint Bank, is the location of the home of Ann Royal Anne Royall.〔(Ann Royal )〕 By some accounts, she was the first professional female journalist in America. "During the Civil War, the off-the-beaten-path community became known as the “Union hole,” a place for deserters and resisters. It was close to this area that Union General David Hunter fought his most difficult battle, a confrontation involving two of Craig County’s highest mountains, on his trek from Lynchburg, Va., to Sweet Springs, West Virginia"〔("Down Home in Paint Bank. ) By Gwen Johnson, Cooperative Living. 2015.〕 The Order of the Heroes of America, also known as the "Red Strings", extended into southwestern Virginia as well. Paint Bank, Virginia was known as a Union-Hole because of the pro-Union membership in these societies. One of the members of the Order was a Christiansburg, Virginia wheelwright named Williams. It is not known if this is the same man named Williams that residents of Back Valley, Virginia spoke about as a member of the Loyal League.〔Turk, David S. The Union Hole: Unionist Activity and Local Conflict in Western Virginia. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994. Pages 83-84. The author is also quoting from the "Report of Detectives," October 10, 1864, published in the Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Series IV, Volume 3, page 807.〕 "Paint Bank, in Craig County, was the core of what local citizen George A. Linton called the "Union Hole"-an area with mixed loyalties that sometimes swayed heavily to the north, in this traditionally southern state."〔Turk, David S. 1994. The Union Hole: Unionist Activity and Local Conflict in Western Virginia. Heritage Press.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paint Bank, Virginia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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