Altavista, Virginia Altavista, Virginia Official seal of Altavista, Virginia Location of Altavista, Virginia Location of Altavista, Virginia Altavista is an incorporated town in Campbell County, Virginia, United States.
1.1 A new town on a new barns 4.1 Altavista High School Team State Championships A new town on a new barns The town of Altavista was created in 1905 amid the assembly of the east-west Tidewater Railway between Giles County (on the border with West Virginia) and Sewell's Point in what was at the time Norfolk County.
Planned by Campbell County indigenous William Nelson Page and financier and industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, the Tidewater Railway was combined with the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia to form the new Virginian Railway in 1907.
Lane Brothers Construction Company was the contractor for constructing 32 miles (51 km) of the Tidewater Railway, including its crossing of the existing north-south Southern Railway in Campbell County.
Three Lane brothers purchased 2,000 acres (8.1 km2) of territory near the point where the barns s would intersect, and had civil engineers lay out a new town with streets and lots, complete with water, sewer, telephone service, and electric lines.
Named for the Lane family farm in Albemarle County, the new town of Altavista was incorporated in 1912.
The former Virginian Railway became part of the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1959, and it and the Southern Railway were combined in the early 1980s to form the current Norfolk Southern Railway.
Now directed by the same company, both barns lines are still very active in the Altavista area.
It was March 1912, and a man titled John Lane had purchased a bankrupt box plant in Altavista for $500.
Since the Lanes didn't know how prosperous their new venture was going to be, they didn't want to put their name on it, so they incorporated the little business as the Standard Red Cedar Chest Company, with John Lane as President and Ed Lane as Vice President and General Manager.
Lane Furniture Industries is owned by Heritage Home Group, which also owns other well-known brand name companies such as Broyhill, Thomasville, Drexel Heritage and Maitland Smith.
Lane was most famous for their Lane cedar chests made at the initial plant in Altavista. At the beginning of the 21st century the business command posts were moved from Altavista and the plant there closed.
The old plant now sits mostly vacant, but definite sections have turn into occupied by new companies, and Central Virginia Community College has moved into parts of the office building.
The Avoca Museum and Altavista Downtown Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Altavista is positioned in southwestern Campbell County at 37 7 3 N 79 17 23 W (37.117622, -79.289632). It is bordered to the south by the Roanoke River, which forms the boundary with Pittsylvania County.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Altavista has a total region of 5.0 square miles (13.0 km2), of which 4.9 square miles (12.7 km2) is territory and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km2), or 2.24%, is water. In the town, the populace was spread out with 22.5% under the age of 18, 6.7% from 18 to 24, 23.7% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 21.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Altavista High School Team State Championships Sports squads from Altavista High School have won a several state championships in recent years.
Uncle Billy Lane was the late William G.
Tradition has it that he established the practice of region farmers and merchants coming to town on the first Saturday of each month to barter and trade for livestock, crops and goods at an region known as the Altavista Trade Lot.
The town festival is a two-day celebration under the auspices of the Uncle Billy's Day Committee, Inc., a group of volunteer people who plan, raise funds and coordinate the activities of the weekend.
In 2009, for the festival's sixtieth anniversary, part of the festivities were moved to downtown with chief festivities in English Park, in essence creating a sidewalk festival to entice highway passengers on Route 29 to stay in town and go to the chief event.
That year a fee for entering the festival was introduced at $5 for a tin badge pin "ticket" with proceeds going towards the town's volunteer fire department.
Because the townsfolk support the fire department by other means including donations, a widespread dislike of the fee (which departed from the traditional no-charge gathering Billy Lane originally organised) by townsfolk and other festival goers, as well as a lack of income for the vendors, "Uncle Billy's Day" became a no-charge event once again in 2010.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Altavista has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Altavista town, Virginia".
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