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Location of Staunton in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Staunton, Virginia. 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 Staunton, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
Staunton (/ ˈ s t æ n t ən / STAN-tən) is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,750. [6] In Virginia, independent cities are separate jurisdictions from the counties that surround them, so the government offices of Augusta County are in Verona, which is contiguous to Staunton. [7]
Also, there is another fork; VA-654 continues over the hill in a shortcut to join US-460, a branch of the old "Warwick Road" to Lynchburg and Richmond, Virginia. [57] VA-654 and VA-605: Read Mountain Rd and Sanderson Rd: 1.5 miles (2.4 km) A "stone house" located at the junction of VA-654 and VA-605 was an early landmark for travelers and ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
On 18 March 1760, he bought 63 acres on Christians Creek from William Curry. [ 37 ] : 177 In early 1748, Buchanan accompanied Dr. Thomas Walker and James Patton on a journey west, as far south as the "Fork Country of the Holston " (present-day Kingsport , Sullivan County, Tennessee ), [ 38 ] to survey the westernmost lands which were included ...
Mount Pleasant is a historic home and farm and national historic district located near Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. The house was built about 1780–1810, and is a two-story, hall-parlor plan limestone structure with a rear ell dating to the mid-19th century. It is reflective of architecture of the Federal era. It has an original one ...
In 1727, Adam Miller became the first white settler in the Shenandoah Valley. Miller was a Mennonite born in Schriesheim, Germany, who immigrated to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1724 and reached the Shenandoah Valley three years later.
[26]: 30 In 1760, Ingles established Ingles Ferry a few miles away. He sold his land at Dunkard's Bottom to William Christian in 1771. [1]: 13 Christian built a comfortable home there in 1772, where his father Israel Christian died in 1784. Planning to move west to Kentucky, he sold his home and land to settlers in 1785.