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The Leesville Dam Archaeological Site is a prehistoric Native American village site in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, near the town of Altavista.The site is located in the general vicinity of the Roanoke River, and is one of the most important Late Woodland period (c. AD 1200–1600) village sites in the area.
Altavista is an incorporated town in Campbell County, Virginia. The town is in the Lynchburg Metropolitan Area , and its population was 3,378 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It was founded in 1907 by John Edward Lane and Henry L. Lane of the Lane Company, and was chartered in September 1912.
Notable buildings include the Altavista Municipal Building (1938), U.S. Post Office (1938), Altavista Presbyterian Church (1925), Central Baptist Church (1927), Southern Railway station (1936), Ogden-Henderson Building (1909), First National Bank (1917) by Stanhope Johnson (1882–1973), Leggett's department store (1933), and Vista Theater (1936).
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Campbell County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Map of Campbell County, Virginia Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia. Jeremiah Rust donated the land that would become the county's seat named Rustburg. [10] The towns of Altavista and Brookneal were created due to their business advantages as well as the "intersection of trails". Altavista was planned by a ...
Virginia Beach: 3,844 acres (15.56 km 2) 1968 Open First Landing State Park: Virginia Beach: 2,888 acres (11.69 km 2) 1936 Open Originally Seashore State Park [1] Grayson Highlands State Park: Mouth of Wilson: 4,502 acres (18.22 km 2) 1965 Open High Bridge Trail State Park: Farmville: 1,236 acres (5.00 km 2) 2006 Open Holliday Lake State Park
Oak Grove is a historic plantation house located near Altavista, Campbell County, Virginia. It was built in stages between the 1750s and 1833. The oldest section is a two-story dog-trot log structure built around 1750. The house was enlarged in 1784, and completed around 1833 by adding a west wing.
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park became the 388th unit of the United States National Park Service when it was authorized on December 19, 2002. The National Historical Park was created to protect several historically significant locations in the Shenandoah Valley of Northern Virginia, notably the site of the American Civil War Battle of Cedar Creek and the Belle Grove ...