Horse Shoe Curve is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

in Clarke County,

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. The community is located on a

horseshoe curve A horseshoe curve is a class of climbing curve in a roadbed that reverses turn direction (inflection) twice on either side of a single tight curve that varies through an angle of about 180 degrees or more. Such curves are more commonly found ...

on Route 679 east-southeast of Berryville and has had a tavern since the early 1900s.

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Unincorporated communities in Clarke County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{ClarkeCountyVA-geo-stub