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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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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 districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 478 square miles (1,240 km 2), of which 475 square miles (1,230 km 2) is land and 3 square miles (7.8 km 2) (0.6%) is water. [ 6 ] Adjacent counties / Independent city
Galax Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Galax, Virginia. The district encompasses 67 contributing buildings in the central business district of Galax. A few of the buildings are one-story storefronts, but a majority of the buildings are two-story commercial buildings with either apartments or offices ...
The Old Grayson County Courthouse and Clerk's Office renovated circa 1834 still exists but is now located near what since 1953 is the independent city of Galax, Virginia. Even by 1890 the nearest railroad to Grayson county was nine miles from the county line, a Norfolk and Western Railway stop called "Rural Retreat."
Galax: 640: N/A: 1953: From Grayson County and Carroll County: the galax shrub 6,717: 8 sq mi (21 km 2) Hampton: 650: N/A: 1908: Founded 1610. Current city formed by consolidation of Elizabeth City County and City of Hampton in 1952 [14] Disputed; either Southampton, England or Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, one of the founders of ...
View north along SR 89 north of SR 865 in Galax SR 89 begins at the North Carolina state line a short distance south of Low Gap, where the highway crosses the Eastern Continental Divide . The highway continues south as NC 89, which descends the Blue Ridge Mountains to the community of Lowgap in the valley of the Fisher River .