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Boston is an unincorporated community straddling Culpeper County and Rappahannock County, Virginia, United States. [1] The George L. Carder House, which is located in nearby Castleton, Virginia, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. [2]
The town of Shirley was settled in the 1720s and incorporated in 1775. Its colonial town center (recognized in the Shirley Center Historic District) was nearer its geographic center than Shirley Village. The village grew in the 19th century as an industrial site, overtaking the original center economically, and eventually also becoming the site ...
Shirley is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately thirty miles west-northwest of Boston. The population was 7,431 at the 2020 census. The town has a well-preserved historic New England town center. It is home to the Massachusetts Correctional Institution – Shirley, a medium-security state prison.
The secondary roads system in Virginia was formed in 1932, when the financial pressures of the Great Depression prompted the state to take over most county roads through the Byrd Road Act. Virginia's independent cities were not included, but all the counties in Virginia were given the option of turning this responsibility over to the state ...
The Interstate Highways in Virginia are a total of 1,118 miles (1,799 km) of Interstate Highways in the U.S. state of Virginia. Virginia consists of six primary interstate highways, and 10 auxiliary interstates. In addition, 3 more primary and one auxiliary route are planned or under construction.
The newest town and newest former town are Bedford in Bedford County, which ceased to be an independent city in 2013, and St. Charles in Lee County, which disincorporated in 2022. [3] For a complete list of independent cities, see List of cities in Virginia. For major unincorporated population centers, see List of unincorporated communities in ...
US 48 at the West Virginia state line: I-81 & SR 55 in Strasburg: 2002: current Signage not Posted until 2017 US 50: 86.00: 138.40 US 50 at the West Virginia state line: US 50 at the District of Columbia line 1926: current US 52: 85.00: 136.79 US 52 at the North Carolina state line: US 52 at the West Virginia state line 1935: current US 58
The road was named for the former Warwick County, Virginia, one of the original eight shires of Virginia which consolidated with the City of Newport News in 1958 and assumed the better-known name. Warwick County was named in 1634 for Robert Rich (1587–1658), second Earl of Warwick and a prominent member of the Virginia Company of London , the ...