Galax, Virginia Galax, Virginia Galax is positioned in Virginia Galax - Galax Historical marker at Galax Galax / e l ks/ is an autonomous town/city in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia.
As of the 2010 census, the populace was 7,042. In 2015 the estimated populace was 6,941. The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the town/city of Galax with neighboring Carroll County for statistical purposes.
Galax is bounded to the northeast by Carroll County and to the southwest by Grayson County.
The first plat map for Galax is dated December 1903; The town framers chose the site for the town/city on a wide expanse of meadowland bisected by Chestnut Creek and sitting at an altitude of 2,500 feet on a plateau. The Virginia General Assembly officially chartered the town of Galax in 1906. The town is titled for Galax urceolata, an evergreen groundcover plant found throughout the Blue Ridge Mountains.
At the time, the plant was gathered and sold by many citizens in southwestern Virginia and northwestern North Carolina as an ornamental plant; a Norfolk and Western Railway Company official suggested that the town be titled for the plant. The first Galax Agricultural Fair took place in September 1908, when Galax had 600 residents. In the past, Galax was an industrialized town; by the 1960s, Galax was home to six furniture factories, a mirror factory, at least four textile companies, two large department stores, a lumber company, Carnation Milk, Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and Clover Creamery. The Town of Galax was separated from Carroll and Grayson counties and became an autonomous town/city on December 6, 1953. In the 2000s, Galax and other small neighboring communities in southwestern Virginia joined with private businesses to problematic the Wired Road Authority, a public-private partnership that in 2009 created open-access, integrated county-wide broadband network with 100-megabit connections and in 2013 created gigabit connections.
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Map showing City of Galax, Virginia According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.3 square miles (21 km2), virtually all of which is land. Galax has historically been a center of furniture manufacturing.
In 2014, the Vaughan-Bassett Furniture Co., which manufactures bedroom furniture, working 700 citizens in Galax and was announced to be unusually prosperous in an era when many U.S.
Was a privately held business that at its peak owned five factories (two of them in Galax) and working more than 1,800 workers. Beginning in 2002, imported furniture from Mexico and then China disrupted U.S.
An economic analysis of southwestern Virginia metros/cities and counties found that Galax had the highest increase in travel expenditures from 2004 to 2012, at 71.4%.
The report found that "Galax, a town/city once dominated by industry, has turn into a blossoming tourism destination thanks to downtown revitalization accomplishments, its traditional music and arts scene (Old Fiddlers Convention, Chestnut School of the Arts), and its adjacency to the Blue Ridge Parkway and the New River." Downtown Galax, Virginia Located in the Appalachian region of the United States, Galax is known as a center of traditional "old-time" music and musicians, as is Round Peak, North Carolina near Mount Airy, some 15 miles away on the other side of the ridge. Galax and the encircling region are also known for traditional instrument-making; A diverse ive style of Appalachian dulcimer is titled for Galax. The annual Old Fiddler's Convention, held in Galax since 1935, is a prominent old-time and bluegrass music festival. The New River Trail State Park, a 57-mile state park following an abandoned barns right-of-way, passes through the town/city of Galax and four close-by counties.
Located four miles east of Galax, in neighboring Carroll County, is the Crooked Creek Wildlife Management Area, which encompasses 1,796 acres (727 ha) of gently rolling mountain peaks, both forested and open. Galax is served by the Galax City Public School Division.
High School: Galax High School (serving grades 8 through 12) Middle School: Galax Middle School (serving grades 5 through 7) Elementary School: Galax Elementary School (serving prekindergarten through undertaking 4) National Register of Historic Places in Galax, Virginia a b "State & County Quick - Facts".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
John Nunn & Judith Nunn Alley, Images of America: Galax (Arcadia Publishing: 2010), p.
Estimates of the Population of Virginia Counties and Cities.
University of Virginia Bureau of Population and Economic Research (1955).
Michael Grass, Virginia Counties May Withdraw From Open-Access Broadband Initiative, Government Executive (July 21, 2014).
"Population of Counties by Decennial Census: 1900 to 1990".
Beth Macy, The Decline of an American Furniture Maker, New Yorker (July 10, 2014).
Richard Craver, Vaughan-Bassett announces reopening of furniture plant in Galax, Winston-Salem Journal (January 26, 2012).
Tonia Moxley, Galax's Vaughan Furniture Co.
Jack Morgan, Southwestern Virginia: Authentic, Distinctive, Alive: SWVA Economic Analysis Report (n.d.), p.
Paul Dellinger, Galax, close-by counties jubilate opening of institute 'where dreams can come true', Roanoke Times (June 27, 2005).
New River Trail State Park: General Information, Virginia State Parks.
Crooked Creek WMA, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries.
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