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The Woodstock Tower, built in 1935 by the Civilian Conservation Corps, is located on Powell Mountain, perched at 2,000 feet above Woodstock in the west and the floor of Fort Valley below to the east. Woodstock Tower is accessed via State Route 758 (Woodstock Tower Road), a gravel road with several challenging switchback turns on the western ...
The tower is a popular sightseeing attraction, providing panoramic views of the valleys on either side and of the seven bends of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River. In March 2019, a portion of the road leading to the tower crumbled due to erosion. The road received $350,000 worth of repairs by Virginia Department of Transportation. [48]
The extension east from Woodstock was added in 1930, defined as 6.26 miles (10.07 km) in the direction of Fort Valley, [6] but only extending about 5 miles (8.0 km) by the mid-1930s. [7] [8] SR 261 became SR 59 in the 1940 renumbering to match West Virginia. [9] Two years later, the section east of Woodstock was downgraded to secondary. [10]
Location of Shenandoah County in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Shenandoah County, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Shenandoah County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Mountain Road SR 678 (Fort Valley Road) Washington [89] 0.80 1.29 SR 613 (Poor Valley Road) Roan Lane Dead End Westmoreland [90] 0.75 1.21 Richmond County Line: Chestnut Level Lane SR 600 (Ebenezer Church Road) Wise [91] 2.45 3.94 Scott County Line: Unnamed road Norton City Limits Formerly SR 73: Wythe [92] 26.35 42.41 US 21 (Grayson Turnpike ...
Archaeologists in Virginia have uncovered what is believed to be the remains of a military barracks from the Revolutionary War, including chimney bricks and musket balls indented with soldiers' teeth.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Mathews County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Cherry Hill Road Dead End Gap between segments ending at different points along SR 617: Appomattox [6] 13.36 21.50 SR 627 (River Ridge Road) Old Grist Mill Road Wildway Road US 60 (Anderson Highway) Augusta [7] 14.77 23.77 SR 732 (Roman Road) Liberty School Road Grey Fox Road Salem Church Road Morningside Drive Fort Defiance Road Dam Town Road ...