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William’s King built a boat yard in Kingsport. His brother was Col. James King, who built the iron works in Bristol, and a mill in Kingsport.His family started King College. William had no children. His will is an attempt to give his estate to the children of James. It was a complex scheme to manipulate his young relatives, some not yet born, to marry specific individuals. The efforts failed, and the case went to the United States Supreme Court. His estate consisted of at least 76 tracts in Washington and Smyth Counties totaling 19,473 acres, 3,494 acres in Wythe County, and 10,880 in Tennessee. After his death in 1808 the salt works were leased out at $30,000 a year.

The grandchildren of the Prestons sued each other and the Campbells over the Salt Works, and just before the Civil War were deeply in debt despite a tremendous production of Salt. They sold to George Palmer and William Alexander Stuart, and even that deal wound up in court. At this point, the original settling families passed off of the Saltville stage.

Aspenvale Cemetery Where Madam Russell, General William Campbell, General
Francis Preston, Charles H. Campbell, and Sarah Buchanan Campbell Preston
Are Buried

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CAMPBELL'S CHOICE	Page
INTRODUCTION	1
SALTVILLE GEOLOGY	1
SALTVILLE INDIANS	4
LEGAL MECHANISMS OF LAND TITLE OWNERSHIP IN VA.	6
THE SETTLEMENT OF SALTVILLE	13
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION AROUND SALTVILLE BETWEEN THE PIONEER PERIOD AND THE CIVIL WAR	27
SALTVILLE IN THE CIVIL WAR	31
AFTER THE WAR	47
A MODERN CHEMICAL FACTORY	52
EPILOGUE	57
BIBLIOGRAPHY	61
INDEX	66

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