Hagan Family Cemetery Wall ~ 1924 A.D. ~ Dungannon, Virginia - USA. - Dated Architectural Structures Multifarious on Waymarking.com

The Hagan's were one of the more prominent families in Scott County, Virginia in the 1800's. They were Irish Catholics. Joseph was born in 1787 in Tyrone County, Ireland and his wife Catharine was born December 3, 1802 in Tippernary County, Ireland.

Patrick Hagan (Joseph's nephew) was born in Dungannon, Ireland on February 28, 1828. He came to America when he was 16 years old. This area where the Hagans settled was known as Hunter's crossing or Osborne's Ford.

They are all buried here in the family cemetery in what we now call Hunters Valley in a tract that joins Jefferson National forest. The cemetery wall was built to incorporate a horse mounting block that predates the wall by several years. Patrick and his wife Elizabeth were buried there in 1917. Patrick was a Freemason, and the wall is constructed with the three steps on the upping stone and one new one added with the wall that crosses over to the second set of three steps. I haven't seen anything quite like it, but it has that Irish Masonic look about it out in the middle of a forest.

Patrick built a large mansion near the Sulphur Spring on Stanton Creek that was known as Hagan Hall. He also named the local town Dungannon, after his home in Ireland which means "Fort on the River Gannon". One of Southwest Virginia's most wealthy and scholarly residents was an Irish Catholic who followed his uncle into Scott County and/became a legendary land opportunist when the industrial developers of coal and ore deposits cast their eyes on the Virginia hinterlands.

Patrick Hagan has been dead for over 100 years now and the country style and family graveyard at Hagan Hall has been taken over by the wild briars, thistle and polk stalks. But tales of this fabulous and interesting man and his vast estate still go the rounds. People still find their way to the old, dilapidated, now burned-out house foundation that was his "mansion" at Sulphur Springs, and there are many Virginians nearing the name Hagan, after his idealistic man.

Ancient Free and Accepted Masons.

Year built or dedicated as indicated on the structure or plaque: 1924 A.D. Full Inscription (unless noted above): 1924 A.D. Website (if available): [Web Link]

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