Northbound Interstate 95 at Exit 104; Ruther Glen, Virginia

Ruther Glen is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

Caroline County, Virginia Caroline County is a United States county located in the eastern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The northern boundary of the county borders on the Rappahannock River, notably at the historic town of Port Royal. The Caroline county sea ...

, located near the interchange between

Interstate 95 Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, running from U.S. Route 1, US Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Miami, Florida, to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between M ...

and

Virginia State Highway 207 State Route 207 (SR 207) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known for most of its length as Rogers Clark Boulevard, the state highway runs from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Ruther Glen east to US 301 and SR 2 in Bowling Green ...

, at (37.938782, -77.471466). The ZIP Code for Ruther Glen is 22546 It is approximately north of

Richmond Richmond most often refers to: * Richmond, Virginia, the capital of Virginia, United States * Richmond, London, a part of London * Richmond, North Yorkshire, a town in England * Richmond, British Columbia, a city in Canada * Richmond, California, ...

Mattaponi Springs The Mattaponi () tribe is one of only two Virginia Indian tribes in the Commonwealth of Virginia that owns reservation land, which it has held since the colonial era. The larger Mattaponi Indian Tribe lives in King William County on the reserv ...

golf course is located in the community. Numerous telemarketing organizations use phone number masking techniques to make "Ruther Glen, Virginia" appear on prospects' caller ID units. Politician Julian M. Quarles was born near the community. Caroline County's only private Christian school, The Carmel School, is located in Ruther Glen. It was a stop on the

Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad The Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad was a railroad connecting Richmond, Virginia, to Washington, D.C. The track is now the RF&P Subdivision of the CSX Transportation system; the original corporation is no longer a railroad compan ...

in the nineteenth century; this was replaced by

CSXT CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...

. The

Jericho School Jericho School is a historic one-room school building located at Ruther Glen, Caroline County, Virginia. Madison Public School District Trustees purchased land to construct a school to educate local African American children in 1885 and soon buil ...

was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

in 2004.

References

External links

Caroline County, Virginia website
Unincorporated communities in Caroline County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{CarolineCountyVA-geo-stub