Historical Marker

Patriot's Stage Stop

This house, 1800-32, a stagecoach stop owned by Julius Gibbs. On the Iron Works Pike, route for hauling iron products from furnaces in Bath County to Kentucky River. Gibbs enlisted 1775, in first Va. Regiment under Col. Patrick Henry. Served until 1781. Pioneer settler of Great Crossings, 1782. Charter member of its Baptist church, 1785. Presented by Mrs. Lena Gibbs Ransdell and Gibbs' Descendants. Erected in 1970.