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Location of Galax in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Galax, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Galax, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The Briar Patch Road Historic District is a historic district in East Hampton, New York that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. In 1988, it included seven contributing buildings. [1] The district covers 30 acres (12 ha) at the End of Briar Patch Rd. along Georgica Pond in East Hampton. [1] It includes six houses: [2]
Edinburg Gap, Edinburg Gap Road; Taskers Gap, between Mertins Rock and Bowman Mountain; Mooreland Gap, VA Route 730, Shenandoah County; New Market Gap, elevation 1800 feet, on U.S. Route 211
The majority of the buildings were built in the 1920s. Notable buildings include the old fire station (c. 1920), Colonial Theater (1930), Waugh Department Store (1904), Rex Theater (1938), and Galax Municipal Building (1908). [3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002, with a boundary increase in 2008. [1]
Historical marker at Galax. The area that later became Galax was part of an 800-acre (320 ha) land grant given to James Buchanan in 1756 by the British Crown. The first plat map for Galax is dated December 1903; [5] The town founders selected the site for the city on a wide expanse of meadowland bisected by Chestnut Creek and sitting at an altitude of 2,500 feet (760 m) on a plateau. [6]
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Where a thicket is formed of briar (also spelled brier), which is a common name for any of a number of unrelated thorny plants, it may be called a briar patch. Plants termed briar include species in the genera Rosa ( Rose ), Rubus , and Smilax .
Little Cobbler Mountain (North Cobbler Mountain) – Elevation 1,447 ft (441 m) Big Cobbler Mountain (South Cobbler Mountain) – Elevation 1,562 ft (476 m) 38°50′19″N 77°57′10″W / 38.8387°N 77.9528°W / 38.8387; -77.9528 ( Big Cobbler Mountain (South Cobbler Mountain