Dugspur, Carroll County: Post Offices, Mills, Churches, Schools, and Blue Ridge Community Life
Appalachian Community Histories – Dugspur, Carroll County: Post Offices, Mills, Churches, Schools, and Blue Ridge Community Life. Along the winding roads of Carroll County, Virginia, the community of Dugspur developed among the wooded ridges, farms, and creek valleys of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its history reaches back to the early settlement of southwestern Virginia, when families established farms along the waterways and mountain roads that connected the region to neighboring communities. Over the generations, Dugspur became a place of churches, country stores, gristmills, schools, and family homesteads, each contributing to the life of a mountain community that rarely attracted attention beyond Carroll County.
