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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 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.
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Rosedale Historic District is a national historic district located at Covington, Alleghany County, Virginia.The district encompasses 76 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Alleghany County.
Alleghany County was established on January 5, 1822, by an act of the Virginia General Assembly.The new county was formed from parts of Bath County, Botetourt County, and Monroe County (now in West Virginia), with most of the population centered in the new county seat in Covington. [4]
The island, one mile by five miles, [3] is accessed by Elk Island Road (Virginia State Route 603). [4] [5] [a] Annual flooding, and particularly a flood of 1870 that covered the entire island, laid bare evidence of Native American occupations. Three skeletons were found to have been buried at the southern end of the island.
Fort Wool is a decommissioned island fortification located in the mouth of Hampton Roads, adjacent to the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT).Officially known as Rip Raps Island, the fort has an elevation of 7 feet and sits near Old Point Comfort, Old Point Comfort Light, Willoughby Beach and Willoughby Spit, approximately one mile south of Fort Monroe.
View north at the south end of SR 154 at I-64 in Covington. SR 154 begins at a partial cloverleaf interchange with I-64. 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.
Between 2011 and 2014, heroin overdoses at five Kentucky emergency rooms outside of Cincinnati — Covington, Ft. Thomas, Edgewood, Florence and Grant County — increased by 669 percent. Source: St. Elizabeth Healthcare