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Location of Winchester in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Winchester, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Winchester, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
The Winchester Historic District is a national historic district located at Winchester, Virginia.The district encompasses 1,116 contributing buildings in Winchester. The buildings represent a variety of popular architectural styles including Late Victorian and Italianate.
Virginia State Route 7 (VA 7) is a major primary state highway and busy commuter route in northern Virginia, United States. It travels southeast from downtown Winchester to SR 400 (Washington Street) in downtown Alexandria. Its route largely parallels those of the Washington & Old Dominion Trail (W&OD Trail) and the Potomac River.
An 1856 oil painting of Winchester by Edward Beyer Map of Winchester, Virginia, and the surrounding Frederick County (Winchester is independent of the county but is the county seat). Winchester is located at 39°10′41″N 78°10′01″W / 39.178°N 78.167°W / 39.178; -7
Its county seat is Winchester. [2] The county was formed in 1743 by the splitting of Orange County. It is Virginia's northernmost county. Frederick County is included in the Winchester, VA-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area.
A city and county that share a name may be completely unrelated in geography. For example, Richmond County is nowhere near the City of Richmond, and Franklin County is even farther from the City of Franklin. More Virginia counties are named for women than in any other state. [4] Virginia's postal abbreviation is VA and its FIPS state code is 51.
Harrisonburg – The Friendly City [8] Honaker – Redbud Capital of the World [9] Lexington. The Paris of Southwest Virginia [10] Home of Hamric House [11] Lynchburg. City of Seven Hills [12] The Hill City [12] [13] Newport News. Bad News; Norfolk – Life, Celebrated Daily [7] Mermaid City, USA; Portsmouth – P-Town [14] Radford – The New ...
Gore is an unincorporated community in western Frederick County, Virginia, United States, located off the Northwestern Turnpike on Gore Road (SR 751) west of Winchester. The community is nestled in the Back Creek Valley. It has been called "Back Creek." Gore serves as the western terminus of the Winchester and Western Railroad.