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The river is named for the first white settler on its banks, [2] William Jackson, who received a grant of 270 acres (1.1 km 2) from King George II in 1750. [4] Jackson was possibly an acquaintance of Alexander Dunlap, the first white settler on the Calfpasture River. [5]
Gathright Dam is an earthen and rolled rock-fill embankment dam on the Jackson River 19 miles (31 km) north of Covington, Virginia.The dam is 257 feet (78 m) tall and 1,310 feet (400 m) long and has a controlled spillway within the structure's southern portion.
The roadway continues south as unnumbered Durant Road. SR 154 heads north as an extension of Durant Road, a four-lane divided highway that parallels a rail spur to a manufacturing plant in the southern part of the city. The state highway and rail spur diverge as they cross the Jackson River. North of the bridge, Durant Road splits north to ...
63 Turk's Run and Moorman's River Road (as a turnpike) 1823-24. 57 Shepherdstown and Smithfield Turnpike ← Shepherd's Town and Winchester Turnpike; 63 Staunton and Little Kanawha Road; 1824-25. 56 toll gate authorized on road from Fincastle to Sweet Springs; 59 toll gate authorized on road from Covington to McClung's Mill; 1825-26
Jackson River Turnpike SR 39 (Mountain Valley Road) Formerly SR 268: Bedford [9] 2.28 3.67 SR 680 (Sheep Creek Road) Owl Town Road SR 614 (Sheep Creek Road) Botetourt [10] 2.06 3.32 SR 726 (Lapsley Run Road) Elburnell Drive SR 662 (Full House Road) Brunswick [11] 3.50 5.63 SR 606 (Belfield Road) Old Church Road Glendale Mill Road SR 606 ...
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 Covington, 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]
Dunlap Creek is a 25.9-mile-long (41.7 km) [1] tributary of the Jackson River in the U.S. state of Virginia.It is part of the James River watershed.. The creek forms at Earlehurst in Alleghany County, Virginia, by the confluence of Back Creek and Sweet Springs Creek, both of which rise to the southwest in Monroe County, West Virginia.
Covington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 5,737, [ 4 ] making it the second-least populous city in Virginia. It is surrounded by Alleghany County , of which it is also the county seat . [ 5 ]