Stony Point, Virginia
Stony Point is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.[1] The region acknowledged as Stony Point includes the historical villages of Proffit and Rosena. The physical core of Stony Point is the Stony Point Volunteer Fire Company, Stony Point Elementary School, and several dozen surrounding homes. A general store is the sole public service. The nearest population centers of any size are Barboursville and Charlottesville, the county seat.
Stony Point | |
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  Stony Point Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia  Stony Point Stony Point (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 38°6′46″N 78°22′17″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Albemarle |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1496270[1] |
A general store has long operated at the intersection of Stony Point Road (State Route 20) and Turkey Sag Road (Secondary Route 640), one of the two roads leading east over the Southwest Mountains from Stony Point. "Stony Point Market" is the name of the store currently located there; prior incarnations, in the latter half of the twentieth century, were "Bobby's" and "Bell's Store." The earliest known general store at that location was the one owned and operated by Colonel Nimrod Branham, a member of the House of Delegates, which opened in 1797.[2]
References
- "Stony Point". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
- Lay, K. Edward (2000). The Architecture of Jefferson Country: Charlottesville and Albemarle County. University of Virginia Press. p. 148. ISBN 978-0-8139-1885-3. Retrieved December 2, 2009.
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