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State Route 276 (Virginia)
State Route 276 (SR 276) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The state highway runs from SR 256 at Weyers Cave north to U.S. Route 33 (US 33) near Penn Laird. Route description SR 276 begins at an intersection with SR 256 (Weyers Cave Road) in the village of Weyers Cave. The highway heads northeast as two-lane undivided Keezletown Road, which also continues south from SR 256 as SR 750. SR 276 crosses the Augusta– Rockingham county line at the North River and continues as Cross Keys Road. Just north of the village of Cross Keys, the state highway intersects SR 253 (Port Republic Road). SR 276 reaches its northern terminus at US 33 (Spotswood Trail) just west of the village of Penn Laird and south of Keezletown at the southern end of Massanutten Mountain. Major intersections References External links {{Attached KML, display=title,inlineVirginia Highways Project: VA 276 276 __NOTOC__ Year 276 ( CCLXXVI) was a leap year starting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weyers Cave, Virginia
Weyers Cave ( ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Augusta County, Virginia, Augusta County, Virginia, United States. The population was 2,473 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Staunton, Virginia, Staunton–Waynesboro, Virginia, Waynesboro Staunton-Waynesboro micropolitan area, Micropolitan Statistical Area. Weyers Cave is the site of the first chapter (1927) of the Future Farmers of Virginia, later to become the National FFA Organization. It is also the site of Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport and the main campus of Blue Ridge Community College (Virginia), Blue Ridge Community College. History The West View Schoolhouse and Weyers Cave School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Geography Weyers Cave is located at (38.286833, −78.913977). According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.6 square miles (17.1 km2), all of it land. Demographics 2000 census As of the census of 2000, there were 1,225 peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cross Keys, Virginia
Cross Keys is an unincorporated community located in Rockingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. Geography It is located on State Route 276 south of Harrisonburg. History On June 8, 1862, it was the site of the Battle of Cross Keys, a Confederate victory in Jackson's Valley Campaign during the American Civil War. Climate The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Cross Keys has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Culture Ananias Davisson, the publisher of the first Southern shape note tunebook, the Kentucky Harmony (1816), is buried in the Cross Keys cemetery. Davisson was from the Shenandoah Valley, but many of the songs were collected during trips to Kentucky and Tennessee. Many of his musical compositions have been republished in the Shenandoah Harmony, and the annual Northern Shenandoah Valley All Day Shenandoah Harmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penn Laird, Virginia
Penn Laird is an unincorporated community in Rockingham County, Virginia, United States. Geography Penn Laird is located on U.S. Route 33 southeast of Harrisonburg. History Penn Laird has a post office A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ... with ZIP code 22846, which opened on July 18, 1896. Ruth Kathleen Funkhouser Armstrong states the name Penn Laird came from the two middle names of Harold Roudabush's father, William Penn Roudabush and Harold's Wife father, whose middle name was Laird. References Unincorporated communities in Rockingham County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{RockinghamCountyVA-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augusta County, Virginia
Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county seat is Staunton, but most of the administrative services have offices in neighboring Verona. The county was created in 1738 from part of Orange County and was named after Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. It was originally a huge area, but many of its parts were carved out to form other counties and several states until the current borders were finalized in 1790. As of the 2020 census, the county's population was 77,487. Along with Staunton and Waynesboro, it forms the Staunton–Waynesboro, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Augusta County was formed in 1738 from Orange County, although, because few people lived there, the county government was not organized until 1745. It was named for Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rockingham County, Virginia
Rockingham County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 83,757. Its county seat is the independent city of Harrisonburg. Along with Harrisonburg, Rockingham County forms the Harrisonburg, VA, Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is also home of the Rockingham County Baseball League. History Settlement of the county began in 1727, when Adam Miller (Mueller) staked out a claim on the south fork of the Shenandoah River, near the line that now divides Rockingham County from Page County. On a trip through eastern Virginia, the German-born Miller had heard reports about a lush valley to the west which had been discovered by Governor Alexander Spotswood's legendary Knights of the Golden Horseshoe Expedition, and then moved his family down from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. In 1741, Miller purchased , including a large lithia spring, near Elkton, Virginia, and lived on this property for the remainder of his life. Much-increased ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a state or province falls below numbered national highways (Canada being a notable exception to this rule) in the hierarchy (route numbers are used to aid navigation, and may or may not indicate ownership or maintenance). Roads maintained by a state or province include both nationally numbered highways and un-numbered state highways. Depending on the state, "state highway" may be used for one meaning and "state road" or "state route" for the other. In some countries such as New Zealand, the word "state" is used in its sense of a sovereign state or country. By this meaning a state highway is a road maintained and numbered by the national government rather than local authorities. Countries Australia Australia's State Route system covers u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth are shaped by the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Chesapeake Bay, which provide habitat for much of its flora and fauna. The capital of the Commonwealth is Richmond; Virginia Beach is the most-populous city, and Fairfax County is the most-populous political subdivision. The Commonwealth's population was over 8.65million, with 36% of them living in the Baltimore–Washington metropolitan area. The area's history begins with several indigenous groups, including the Powhatan. In 1607, the London Company established the Colony of Virginia as the first permanent English colony in the New World. Virginia's state nickname, the Old Dominion, is a reference to this status. Slave labor and land acquired from displaced native tribes fueled the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia State Route 256
State Route 256 (SR 256) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for most of its length as Weyers Cave Road, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 11 (US 11) near Weyers Cave east to US 340 in Grottoes. SR 256 connects Interstate 81 (I-81) with Weyers Cave in northern Augusta County and Grottoes, which is home to Grand Caverns, in southeastern Rockingham County. Route description SR 256 begins at an intersection with US 11 (Lee Highway) west of Weyers Cave. The state highway heads east as two-lane undivided Weyers Cave Road, which immediately has a diamond interchange with I-81. SR 256 has a grade crossing of the Chesapeake Western Railway and meets the southern end of SR 276 (Keezletown Road) in the community of Weyers Cave. The state highway passes Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport and crosses the Middle River, a tributary of the North River. SR 276 then crosses the South River—which with the North River forms the South Fork Shenandoah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North River (South Fork Shenandoah River)
The North River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 river in the mountains and Shenandoah Valley of northern Virginia, the United States. It joins the South River at Port Republic to form the South Fork Shenandoah River. The river rises at above sea level in western Augusta County, below Dyers Knob on Shenandoah Mountain along the Virginia-West Virginia border. From the man-made Elkhorn Lake it flows south and then east through the George Washington National Forest. The river breaks out of the Allegheny Mountains at North River Gap and flows into the broad Valley of Virginia. The river passes through the town of Bridgewater and flows southeast, joining the South River at Port Republic. The Middle River, a major tributary, joins the North River just west of the town of Grottoes, four miles above the juncture with the South River. Other towns along the river include Mount Solon, St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virginia State Route 253
State Route 253 (SR 253) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Port Republic Road, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 11 (US 11) in Harrisonburg east to US 340 near Port Republic. SR 253 is a northwest–southeast highway that connects Harrisonburg with Cross Keys and Port Republic in southeastern Rockingham County. The state highway also provides access to portions of James Madison University on either side of Interstate 81 (I-81). SR 253 is maintained by the Virginia Department of Transportation except for the portion in the independent city of Harrisonburg, which is municipally maintained. A small portion of Port Republic Road through Port Republic was included in the state highway system by the late 1920s as part of the highway between Waynesboro and Elkton. This section was paved in the early 1930s and carried three different route numbers until it was transferred to the secondary system in the early 1940s. Port Republic Road was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keezletown, Virginia
Keezletown is a census-designated place in Rockingham County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It is located northeast of Harrisonburg. It is for the first time listed as such for the United States Census 2020. References {{authority control Unincorporated communities in Rockingham County, Virginia Census-designated places in Rockingham County, Virginia Census-designated places in Virginia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
