Grayson County was formed in 1793 from part of
Wythe County and was named for William Grayson, delegate to the Continental
Congress form 1784 to 1787 and one of the first two U.S. Senators from
Virginia, the County seat is Independence. Grayson is nestled in the Blue
Ridge Mountains and embraced on the north by Wythe County, on the west
by Smyth and Washington Counties, Carroll County on the east, and touches
North Carolina and the northeastern tip of Tennessee on the southern borders.
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