Osborne History
In the year of 1740 four bothers Solomon, Enoch,
Ephrim, and Jonthan Osborne migrated from
Scotland and settled on the New River in Fincastle
County, Virginia. This place was named the
Osborne Settlement. Their faith was Presbyterian.
The land they occupied is in four counties. Wythe
Pulaski, Carroll, and Smyth Counties.
Fincastle had comprised the whole of Southwest
Virginia, West of tthe Blueridge Mountain. The
town was named Osborne in Pulaski County, and has
since been changed to Alosonia. Osborne and Smyth
County was changed to Sugar Grove. Another
settlement to perpeturate the Osborne family name
is Osborne Gap, Dickerson County, which lies
near Clintwood. Close to the time the Osbornes
arrived in Virginia, there came such pioneer
families as the Bryans,Coxs, Buchanans,Stuarts,
and Suttons.
