Ruritan club serving Lead Mines in Wythe County. In 1952 accepted title to the Jackson Ferry Shot Tower from the Stuart Chapter DAR, then in 1964 joined the Wytheville-Wythe County Chamber of Commerce in a fundraising campaign to buy the surrounding land and deed it to the Commonwealth, establishing what is now Shot Tower Historical State Park. Ruritan is a rural and small-town service organization founded in Holland, Virginia in 1928, built on fellowship, goodwill and community service.