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English: This is a locator map showing Carroll County in Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006: Source:
Carroll County, like neighboring Floyd, is a historical anomaly in being a solidly Republican county in “Solid South” Virginia, due to desertions from the Confederate army during the Civil War. It was the only county in Virginia to vote for William Howard Taft during the 1912 election, and the only Democrat to carry the county in a ...
Galax / ˈ ɡ eɪ l æ k s / is an independent city in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,720. [4]The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Galax with neighboring Carroll County for statistical purposes.
From Grayson County and Carroll County: the galax shrub 6,717: 8 sq mi (21 km 2) Hampton: 650: N/A: 1908: Founded 1610. Current city formed by consolidation of Elizabeth City County and City of Hampton in 1952 [14] Disputed; either Southampton, England or Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, one of the founders of the Virginia Company ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Carroll 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. [1]
Hillsville is located in central Carroll County at (36.758814, −80.734510 U.S. Routes 52, 221 and 58 intersect in the center of town. US 52 leads northwest 28 miles (45 km) to Wytheville and south 22 miles (35 km) to Mount Airy, North Carolina, while US 221 leads northeast 70 miles (110 km) to Roanoke and southwest 13 miles (21 km) to Galax.
Dugspur is an unincorporated community in Carroll County, Virginia, United States. Dugspur is located along U.S. Route 221 7.9 miles (12.7 km) east-northeast of Hillsville . Dugspur has a post office with ZIP code 24325, which opened on August 6, 1850.
The school was the first public high school in Carroll County and was among the earliest in Virginia. In 1914 it became the first public secondary school in the United States to offer agricultural education classes under the Smith-Hughes Act. The original building that housed the agriculture department still stands. [7]