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Goochland County is a county located in the Piedmont of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its southern border is formed by the James River . As of the 2020 census , the population was 24,727. [ 2 ]
An Act of the Assembly of Albemarle County established Charlottesville in 1762. Thomas Walker was named its first trustee. It was situated along a trade route called Three Notched Road (present day U.S. Route 250), which led from Richmond to the Great Valley.
In 1681, Berkeley was renamed Perquimans, and by 1685 Shaftesbury became Chowan. By 1689 the county ceased to function as a governmental unit, replaced by the four "precincts" (which would later become counties themselves in 1739): Chowan County, Currituck County, Pasquotank County, and Perquimans County.
Earlysville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Albemarle County, Virginia, United States, [1] roughly 9 miles (14 km) north of Charlottesville. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 1,153. [2]
Boyd Tavern, also known as Old Boyd Tavern, Watson's Ordinary, and Shepherd's Inn, is a historic tavern located in Boyd Tavern, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was built about 1831, and is a two-story, two-over-two, three-bay double-pile frame structure. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and has a side-gable roof. A one-story addition was built ...
It is home to the Greenwood Country Store and the Greenwood Community Center, [2] which has the area's only roller skating rink. Greenwood has a post office with ZIP code 22943 [ 3 ] The Greenwood Tunnel , built by Claudius Crozet for the Blue Ridge Railroad and used by the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway until its abandonment during World War II ...
Southern Albemarle Rural Historic District is a national historic district located near Charlottesville, Albemarle County, Virginia. The district encompasses 1,284 contributing buildings, 96 contributing sites, 486 contributing structures, and 3 contributing objects.
Rivanna is a census-designated place (CDP) in Albemarle County, Virginia, just east of Shadwell. The population as of the 2010 Census was 1,860. [2] It consists mainly of the Glenmore gated community .