Galax

Galax is a Virginia historical marker in opposite Academy Drrive, Galax County, dedicated 1941.

S. Main Street, opposite Academy Drrive

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The town is on the dividing line between Grayson and Carroll counties. Its original name was Bonaparte, which was changed to Galax, the name of a mountain shrub abundant in the vicinity. In 1904 a spur of the Norfolk and Western Railroad came here, bringing the town into existence. It was incorporated in 1906.

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1869 · Colton's West Virginia (1869) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · Hillsville, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1892 · Hillsville, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)
1895 · Gen. map VII. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1896 · Hillsville, Virginia (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Gen. map VII, 1895, covering the location of Galax, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Gen. map VII, 1895, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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