It is one Wytheville’s five museums, each with its own stories to tell. The details of the dire “summer without children” polio epidemic, along with much more, are on display at the
Thomas J. Boyd Museum (295 Tazewell Street, Wytheville, VA 24382). The
Great Lakes to Florida Highway Museum (975 Tazewell Street, Wytheville, VA 24382) offers a look back to a time when Route 21 was the primary route to Florida from the Midwest. Nearby, the
Haller-Gibboney Rock House (205 E. Tazewell Street, Wytheville, VA 24382) was the home of Wytheville’s first resident physician. Dr. John Haller, his family and their descendants, lived in the home for 140 years as it was used as an infirmary and a school during the Civil War and later as a boarding house. The
Wytheville Training School Cultural Center (410 E. Franklin Street, Wytheville VA 24382) is the region’s only African American heritage museum. Constructed in 1882 as a school for African American children, it now displays photos, stories and memorabilia telling the history of African American education in Wythe County.
