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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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Wytheville Community College (WCC) is a public community college in Wytheville, Virginia, United States. It is part of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). The college serves the citizens of Bland , Carroll , Grayson , Smyth (Marion and eastward), and Wythe counties, and the City of Galax .
The original Virginia College campus was founded in 1983 in Roanoke, Virginia. In 1989, it was acquired by Education Futures, Inc. [5] In February 1992, it opened its first branch campus in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Homewood. Another branch campus was opened in April 1993 in Huntsville, Alabama.
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The campus was founded in 1884 and became a mixed-gender school in 1972.. The college closed in May 2014 due to financial issues and the loss of accreditation, so it sat boarded up with the ...
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] There are ...
State Route 97 (SR 97) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Pipers Gap Road , the state highway runs 9.16 miles (14.74 km) from SR 89 in Galax east to SR 608 and SR 620 next to the Blue Ridge Parkway .