Giles County/Pulaski County
Historical highway marker Z-258 · Giles County
Giles County Formed in 1806 from Montgomery, Tazewell, and Monroe, and named for William B. Giles, United States Senator and Governor of Virginia 1827-30. Mountain Lake is in this county. Pulaski County Formed in 1839 from Wythe and Montgomery, and named for Count Casimir Pulaski, killed at the siege of Savanna, 1779. New River flows through this county.
Virginia Conservation Commission, 1946