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Covington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 5,737, [ 4 ] making it the second-least populous city in Virginia. It is surrounded by Alleghany County , of which it is also the county seat . [ 5 ]
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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 Alleghany 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.
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]
In 1953, the Virginia Highway Department matched a $5,000 fund that had been raised by the Covington Business and Professional Women's Club and the Covington Chamber of Commerce. Five acres surrounding the bridge were purchased and a small wayside park which opened in 1954 was built, allowing easier access.
In late 2020, it was announced that Alleghany County Public Schools and Covington City Public Schools would merge. The new school system is known as Alleghany Highlands Public Schools. On July 1, 2023, Covington High School merged with Alleghany to create a new Alleghany High School that took on Covington's Cougar nickname. [3]
The district encompasses 108 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 1 contributing structure in the historic core of the city of Covington. It includes late-19th and early-20th-century commercial buildings, dwellings that date from around 1820 until 1940, and governmental, educational, religious, industrial, and transportation-related ...
The Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission (RVARC, founded in 1969, is one of 21 Virginia Planning District Commissions. The Regional Commission is not a State Agency, but was established by its member governments through a charter agreement under Virginia law [1] as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Regional Commission ...