Alleghany County

Alleghany County, Virginia, United States
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West Clifton Forge, Virginia (Q7984751)
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

West Clifton Forge was an incorporated town located in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States. In 1906 the towns of Clifton Forge and West Clifton Forge merged to form the independent city of Clifton Forge.

This item might be defunct. The English Wikipedia article is in these categories: Former municipalities in Virginia
Masonic Theatre (Q43299640)
item type: movie theater

Street address: 508 Main Street, Clifton Forge, VA 24422 (from Wikidata)

website: http://www.cliftonforge.org/get_page.pl?page=3

Park Drive-In (Q43301082)
item type: movie theater / drive-in theater / former building or structure

Street address: I-64 at Main Street, Clifton Forge, VA 24422 (from Wikidata)

Ridge Theatre (Q43301341)
item type: movie theater

Street address: 418 E. Ridgeway Street, Clifton Forge, VA 24422 (from Wikidata)

Persinger House (Q14713054)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Persinger House is a historic home located at Covington, Alleghany County, Virginia. The original section was built about 1757, and enlarged in 1888. It is a two-story, six bay, single-pile log and frame house with weatherboard siding and a gable roof. A 20th century kitchen is connected to the house by a hyphen. It features a two-story, porch supported by chamfered posts, simple cut-out friezes, and a Chinese lattice railing. Also on the property is a contributing late-19th century barn.

NRHP reference number: 82004668

WVRI (Q7956989)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WVRI (90.9 MHz) is a non-commercial FM radio station licensed to Clifton Forge, Virginia, and serving Alleghany County, Virginia. It is owned by Liberty University and it simulcasts a Christian Contemporary radio format, known as "The Journey," from parent station WRVL Lynchburg.

website: http://www.liberty.edu/thejourney/

Sweet Chalybeate Springs (Q14713278)
item type: hotel
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Sweet Chalybeate Springs, also known as the Red Sweet Springs, Sweet Chalybeate Hotel and Sweet Chalybeate Springs Lodge, is a historic resort hotel complex located at Sweet Chalybeate, Alleghany County, Virginia. It dates to the 1850s, and consists of a main building, guest ranges, and cottages all fronted with two-level porches. There are a total of eight contributing buildings and one contributing structure. The main building is a gable roof, weatherboarded, frame structure 12 bays long and 2 bays deep. The resort developed around springs flowing undisturbed from the bottom of a small rock bluff. Sweet Chalybeate suffered decline and finally closed its doors in 1918.

NRHP reference number: 74002103

Clifton Furnace (Q14712188)
item type: charcoal pile
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Clifton Furnace is a historic cold blast charcoal furnace located near Clifton Forge, Alleghany County, Virginia. It was built in 1846 of large, rough-hewn, rectangular stones. It measures 34 feet square at the base and the sides and face taper towards the top. The furnace went out of blast in 1854 and was revamped in 1874. It was abandoned in 1877.

NRHP reference number: 77001485

Longdale Furnace Historic District (Q14712742)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

NRHP reference number: 95000898

Johnsons Creek Natural Area Preserve (Q6268531)
item type: protected area
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Johnsons Creek Natural Area Preserve is a 99-acre (40 ha) Natural Area Preserve located in Alleghany County, Virginia. It contains a variety of trees, including ancient red cedars, oaks, and pines, all of which stand on steep shale bluffs overlooking Johnsons Creek.

Clifton Forge Residential Historic District (Q14712187)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Clifton Forge Residential Historic District is a national historic district located at Clifton Forge, Alleghany County, Virginia. The district encompasses 728 contributing buildings and two contributing sites in a predominantly residential section of Clifton Forge. It primarily includes single-family frame vernacular dwellings dating to the turn-of-the 20th century. They are vernacular interpretations of a variety of popular architectural styles including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Bungalow. Notable non-residential buildings include the Clifton Forge High School (1928), First Baptist Church (c. 1892), Main Street Baptist Church (1921), First Christian Church (1906), Presbyterian Church (1907), Methodist Church (1908–1910), Clifton Forge Baptist Church (1912), Clifton Forge Woman's Club (1939), and Clifton Forge Armory (1940–1941). Memorial Park and Crown Hill Cemetery are contributing sites. Located in the district and separately listed is the Jefferson School.

NRHP reference number: 12000517

WJVR (Q7951434)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WJVR (101.9 FM, "The River") is a commercial radio station licensed to Iron Gate, Virginia, serving Covington and Clifton Forge in Virginia. It has a classic rock radio format and is owned and operated by Todd P. Robinson. It also carries Alleghany High School sports. The studios and offices are on Oak Street in Covington.

website: http://www.1019theriver.com/

Jefferson School (Q14712626)
item type: school building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Jefferson School, also known as East Elementary and Clifton Forge Elementary East, is a historic school building located at Clifton Forge, Alleghany County, Virginia. It was built in 1926, as a rectangular two-story building is clad in running-bond brick in the Colonial Revival style. It sits on a raised concrete foundation and has ribbons of small-paned double-hung windows and a recessed front entrance.

NRHP reference number: 10001061

Rosedale Historic District (Q14713157)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rosedale Historic District is a national historic district located at Covington, Alleghany County, Virginia. The district encompasses 76 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, and 2 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Alleghany County. The buildings represent a variety of popular architectural styles including the Queen Anne, Greek Revival, and Classical Revival styles. The most notable residence is Rose Dale, constructed in the late-1850s as a plantation house. The Rosedale neighborhood was in established in 1899–1900. In addition to the dwellings a former hospital is situated in the district.

NRHP reference number: 98000738

Clifton Forge Commercial Historic District (Q14712186)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Clifton Forge Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Clifton Forge, Alleghany County, Virginia. The district encompasses 77 contributing buildings in the central business district of Clifton Forge. It primarily includes frame, brick, and concrete block commercial buildings dating to the late-19th and early-20th centuries. The buildings are in a variety of popular architectural styles including Classical Revival, Mission/Spanish Revival, and Italianate. Notable buildings include the Hawkins Brothers Store (c. 1886), Wiley House (1891), Chesapeake and Ohio Office Building (1906), Masonic Theatre (1905), Alleghany Building (1905), Clifton Forge City Hall (1910-1911), U.S. Post Office (1910), Ridge Theatre (1929), the Farrar Building (1930), and the Pure Oil Company Service Station (1932).

NRHP reference number: 91002015

Carpenter Creek (Q5045708)
item type: stream
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Carpenter Creek in western Virginia, now known as Potts Creek, was shown on a map of the area drawn by Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson in 1751 and printed in 1755, and so called in the text of Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of Virginia" that he prepared in the 1780s. Carpenter's Creek is also shown as such on John Ballendine's map of the James River published c1772 and Thomas Hutchins' map of the western regions of Virginia published in 1778.

Wood Hall (Callaghan, Virginia) (Q14713552)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Wood Hall, also known as Milton Hall and Oak Hall, is a historic home located at Callaghan, Alleghany County, Virginia. It was built in 1874, and is a double-pile, two-story, brick house on a stuccoed brick foundation in the Gothic Revival style. It features a two-story, gable roof entrance tower with clasping buttresses and pointed-arch openings. Also on the property is a former caretaker's cottage. It was built for William Wentworth-FitzWilliam, Viscount Milton, whose wife, Lady Laura Milton, brought him from Britain to Alleghany County for his health.

NRHP reference number: 82004667

Massie House (Q14712800)
item type: house
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Massie House, also known as Oak Grove, was a historic home located at Falling Spring, Alleghany County, Virginia. It was built in two phases in 1825–1826, and was a double-pile, two-story, five bay, wood-frame house on a brick foundation in the Federal style. The main entrance featured the original paneled double-doors ornamented with small Chinese and Gothic motifs, flanked by sidelights and topped by a segmental fanlight.

NRHP reference number: 82004669

WXCF (Q7957588)
item type: radio station
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

WXCF is a classic hits and oldies broadcast radio station licensed to Clifton Forge, Virginia. WXCF serves Clifton Forge and Covington. WXCF is owned and operated by WVJT, LLC.

website: http://www.highlandsmediagroup.com/stations/am1230-wxcf/

Rich Patch Mines (Q7323411)
item type: unincorporated community
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Rich Patch Mines is an unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States.

USGS GNIS ID: 1493481

Fairview (Amherst, Virginia) (Q14712304)
item type: building
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Fairview is a historic home located near Amherst, Amherst County, Virginia. It was built in 1867, and is a 2+12-story Italian Villa style brick dwelling. It has a three-story tower set at a 45-degree angle to the primary elevation. The house features a low-pitched roof with overhanging eaves, wide frieze with decorative brackets, arched windows, and a bay window. Also on the property are the contributing late-19th century smokehouse and tenant house (c. 1920).

NRHP reference number: 09000391

Luke Mountain Historic District (Q14712756)
item type: historic district
Summary from English Wikipedia (enwiki)

Luke Mountain Historic District is a national historic district located near Covington, Alleghany County, Virginia. The district encompasses 12 contributing buildings, 4 contributing sites, 6 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object on Luke Mountain overlooking the city of Covington. It includes three high style dwellings all built for members of the Luke family, the earliest of which was built in 1919. Other contributing resources include the former farm manager's house; agricultural barns, shelters, greenhouses, and storage buildings; and domestic structures such as swimming pools and garages. Other landscape features include a winding entrance drive, a pair of gateposts, stone-lined drainage ditches, a concrete bridge/culvert over Lindsay Glen Run, a reservoir and private water system, terraced fields, pastureland, formal garden spaces, and walking/hiking paths.

NRHP reference number: 98000737