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b1bob Says: Most of Virgilina's departed are buried here in this cemetery established in 1840 including Grandaddy Atkins, my great grandparents on my daddy's side, as well as many neighbours. Every fourth Sunday in May, there is a Memorial Service here by the pulpit and the American...
b1bob Says: Even in a town as small as Virgilina, there are varying types of architecture in private homes. The first pic, the Chandler house, is almost reminiscent of a Southern plantation in white with porticos. Contrary to the Chandler house, this more modest house owned by the Tuck...
b1bob Says: Just south of the state line in Virgilina, NC (VT only has the Virginia side listed), there is a fork in the road. As you face south, the right fork in the road takes you on Route 49 towards Roxboro. The left fork takes you down Route 96 towards Oxford. Given the choice, I...
b1bob Says: Virgilina is located right on the Virginia-North Carolina border. The nearest towns of any size are Clarksville and South Boston, Virginia; Roxboro and Oxford, North Carolina. Ironically, Virgilina is as little as 50 miles (80 km.) from North Carolina's Research Triangle...
Crafts kiosks at the Summerfest: Crafts anyone?
b1bob Says: From dawn until dusk, Florence Avenue (Virgilina's main drag) is wall-to-wall with crafts kiosks. Folks come from all over Virginia and North Carolina, follow these festivals (I imagine many of the same lot attend a similar festival in Scottsburg on every 4 July). Different...
b1bob Says: Virgilina's communication centre isn't WRAL-TV 5 or even FOX News. The Town & Country beauty shop is really the town's communication centre, every bit like the ancient Roman forums. If a secret you want kept makes the beauty shop, it might as well be on FOX News or WRAL-TV...
Virgilinans Don't Hide Their Southern Pride
b1bob Says: Southern pride is not meant to offend anybody, but to pay respect to the slower-paced, more friendly way of life in small Southern towns as Virgilina, not to mention the world-class Southern cuisine. We know how to cook our green beans right, folks! It's good to see that...
b1bob Says: Virgilina still holds on to the sense of community (looking after one's neighbours) that has become rarer and rarer these days. In fact, I sometimes think it can only be found in towns this small. I took a short stroll to the post office uptown to get Grandma's mail. I ran...
b1bob Says: Being a small town 17 miles (27 km.) from a town of any size, it should come as no surprise that mobile phone service would be dodgy here, at best. As you drive from Clarksville on Route 49, reliable service ends round about Nelson (just before the Mecklenburg and Halifax...
b1bob Says: Summerfest Saturday, particularly between 8 am and 12 noon, is the one day in the year where you will experience a traffic jam in the hamlet of Virgilina. If you attend a Summerfest, either come down the day before or get there as early as possible on Summerfest day. Bring...
b1bob Says: The only drawback I see to life in Virgilina is the water. All the minerals in the town water make it so hard that if you drop it, it will break. That water can play havoc to the inner workings of those not accustomed. The best alternative I know of is to either drink juices...
A VT meeting here? Don't laugh, it could happen.
b1bob Says: Of course the Summerfest (last Saturday before the last Monday in May) might be the best time to do it. The only drawback is the nearest hotel is in Clarksville. There would be relatively cheap fare served by vendors and the Volunteer Fire Department, music, and dancing in...
b1bob Says: Yeah, that's right Ol' Nat forgot the sunblock at Summerfest 2002. In my defence, though, I didn't know Dorothy and Mabel would be in town and, before that, I figured to make forays uptown in a more piecemeal fashion. On top of that, I was snapping pictures of the town and...
fotogrl09 Says: Kinda right in town, but no other category to place in. Over 100 yrs old, this building was closed in 2003. Recently purchase and possibly to be torn down. I am trying to locate new owners to get permission to photograph what is left. We have to preserve our history.
b1bob Says: Oxford, North Carolina is a medium sized town on the northern tier of North Carolina. Just across the state line, there will be a fork in the road. Take the left fork (96 east) straight into Oxford (the right fork goes to Roxboro). Oxford is the seat of Granville County, NC...
b1bob Says: en español, em português Summerfest 2007 was, by and large, the most fun of the lot up to that time. The previous year, gipper84 went with me, but we had to leave in the middle of it to be in Covington. That next year, my brother Hunter, my sister-in-law Jen, my niece Lexi,...
b1bob Says: This white wooden building has been home to general stores and auction houses off and on throughout my daddy's and my life. As recently as 2004, they had a fairly new retro general store in beautiful downtown Virgilina. They tell me it opened late in 2003. Sadly, by 2005, it...
b1bob Says: This isn't really a fond memory, but the only place to put it. Sadly, Virgilina has seen better days. In the early 1900s, it used to be a copper and gold mining town. At one point, there were as many as three hotels, several restaurants and the streets were overrun with...
b1bob Says: Summerfest is the only time of year Virgilina gets to shine. To raise money for the Virgilina Volunteer Fire Department, they have a big town reunion. The tradition started on 18 June 1983 and from 1984 on, it was held on the Saturday before Memorial Day (the last Monday...
Virgilina Elementary School 50th reunion
b1bob Says: Daddy went down to Virgilina too in order to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first outgoing class of Virgilina Elementary School. You may have seen my tip (in the original 40) on Virgilina Elementary School and remember that the building was 104 years old and wonder...
Virgilina is a small town bisected by the Virginia-North Carolina line, hence its name. In its heyday, it was a copper mining town. It had a hotel and a fairly complete downtown with a number of auto...
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