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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 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."
Missouri Pacific Railway: Shelby County Railway: 1906 1938 N/A Shelby Northwestern Railway: 1911 1938 N/A Short Creek and Joplin Railroad: SLSF: 1879 1888 Kansas City, Fort Scott and Springfield Railroad: Sibley Bridge Company: ATSF: 1887 1900 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway: Sligo and Eastern Railroad: SL&E 1902 1929 N/A Sligo Furnace ...
Rescued by citizens groups — Grayson County Historical Society and a grass-roots group, People and the Courthouse (PATCH) — and restored. A local businessman, Dan Doyle Baldwin (1933-1994, CEO of Nautilus Fitness ) purchased and restored the building, in turn donating it on July 4, 1986 to Grayson County and forming the Historic 1908 ...
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 ...
Grayson is a village [3] in Clinton County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. It was listed as a census-designated place (CDP) in the 2020 census. The community is on US Route 169 four miles north of Trimble and approximately six miles west-southwest of Plattsburg. The Smithville Reservoir on the Little Platte River is about 3.5 miles to the east. [4]
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 ...
The Pacific Railroad was renamed Missouri Pacific in 1867 and later became a part of Union Pacific in 1982. [5] In 1861, the Gasconade River Bridge was one of those burned in Missouri's conflict with secessionists in the early days of the Civil War. Gov.