State Route 26 (SR 26) is a primary
state highway
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in the U.S. state of
Virginia. Known as Oakville Road, the state highway runs from
U.S. Route 460
U.S. Route 460 (US 460) is a spur route of U.S. Route 60. It currently runs for 655 miles (1,054 km) from Norfolk, Virginia, at its parent route U.S. Route 60 at Ocean View to Frankfort, Kentucky, intersecting its parent route once ...
(US 460),
SR 24, and
US 460 Business in
Appomattox north to
US 60 in
Bent Creek.
Route description
SR 26 begins as a four-lane
divided highway at a
diamond interchange with US 460 and SR 24 (Richmond Highway) just north of the town of Appomattox. The roadway continues south of the expressway bypass of the town as US 460 Business (Confederate Boulevard), which leads to the
Appomattox Historic District. SR 26 reduces to a two-lane undivided road and heads north as Oakville Road through northwestern Appomattox County. The state highway passes through the hamlet of
Oakville. Near the northern end of SR 26, the highway descends into the narrow valley of
Bent Creek. The state highway crosses the stream just south of the stream's mouth at the James River. A short distance to the north, SR 26 reaches its terminus at US 60 (James Anderson Highway) in the hamlet of Bent Creek just south of the U.S. Highway's crossing of the James River.
Major intersections
History
The route originally continued south of Appomattox through to Charlotte and Halifax Counties, passing by what is now
VA 40
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in
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Buildings
* Phenix Baptist Church, West Warwick, Rhode Island, formerly on the National Register of Historic Places
* Phenix Building (Chicago), an office building, demolished in 1957
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and ending at what is now
VA 92 in the former town of
Clover. The Appomattox-Phenix portion is now SR 727, while the Phenix-Clover portion is now SR 746.
References
External links
Virginia Highways Project: VA 26
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