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Bristol is an independent city in southwestern Virginia with a population of 17,219 at the 2020 census.

Bristol, Virginia is the twin city of Bristol, Tennessee, and the state line runs down the middle of their shared main street, State Street.

Bristol is surrounded on three sides by Washington County, Virginia, and is a principal city of the Kingsport-Bristol metropolitan area, which had 307,614 residents in 2020.

Evan Shelby settled the Bristol area around 1765 at a place called Sapling Grove and built Shelby's Fort in 1774, a stopping point used by pioneers including Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark.

The U.S. Congress recognized Bristol as the 'Birthplace of Country Music' in a resolution passed in 1998.

In the summer of 1927, Victor Records producer Ralph Peer recorded local musicians in Bristol in the sessions known as the Bristol Sessions, where the Carter Family made its first recordings on July 31, 1927, and Jimmie Rodgers also first recorded.

Johnny Cash called the Bristol Sessions the single most important event in the history of country music, and the sessions are often described as the 'Big Bang' of country music.

The Birthplace of Country Music Museum, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, opened on the Virginia side of Bristol on August 1, 2014, in a 24,000-square-foot building.

Bristol's Paramount Theatre, an Art Deco landmark on State Street, opened in 1931 and still anchors the shared downtown.