Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Grayson County, 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.
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."
The locomotives of the L&BR were numbered 10, 12, 51, 1912, 1923, 1947 (Diesel), 1950 (Diesel), 1951 (Diesel) and 8, a Shay owned by the Railway Historical Society of Northern New York. [12] [13] All of the diesels are GE 44-tonners. From 2010 to 2012, Lewis County and GVT negotiated the sale of the LBR infrastructure to the county.
The Chatham Southern Railway Depot is a historic train station at 340 Whitehead Street in Chatham, Virginia. Built in 1918-19 by the Southern Railway, it was a major hub of the city's economic activity until passenger service was discontinued in 1965, and freight service in 1975.
Fort Wayne Railroad Historical Society (For NKP 765 excursion trips, future) French Lick Scenic Railway; Hesston Steam Museum (For Hesston and Galena Creek excursions) Hoosier Valley Railroad Museum; Indiana Railway Museum; National New York Central Railroad Museum; Ohio River Scenic Railway; Whitewater Valley Railroad; Nickel Plate Express
Belfield–Emporia Historic District, also known as North Emporia, is a national historic district located at Emporia, Virginia. The district includes 41 contributing buildings in the Belfield section of Emporia. In 1887, the neighboring towns of Hicksford and Belfield merged to form the town of Emporia. The district generally consists of late ...
Virginian 4, the last surviving steam engine of the Virginian Railway, on display at the Virginia Museum of Transportation in Roanoke, Virginia.. Early in the 20th century, William Nelson Page, a civil engineer and coal mining manager, joined forces with a silent partner, industrialist financier Henry Huttleston Rogers (a principal of Standard Oil and one of the wealthiest men in the world ...
Funded by Scranton, Pennsylvania, coal baron, Judge John Handley, and built by New York architects J. Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman, it is "perhaps Virginia's purest expression of the regal and florid Beaux Arts classicism." [11] It opened in August 1913. [12] 9: John Handley High School: John Handley High School