Landscape Heritage
The Rockfish Valley
The Rockfish Valley encompasses the area from Brent’s Mountain and Three Ridge Mountain to Afton Mountain. It lies in the shadow of the eastern slopes of the Blue Ridge Mountain. Two hollows located near streams within the eastern slopes are named Spruce and Stoney Creek. The upper Stoney has a falls. Rockfish Valley is named … Read more
State Route 56
This road was built over an old Indian Trail that led from Steeles’s Tavern following the Tye River and winds up the mountain until it reaches the small hamlet of Montebello. After World War II the crooked road was straightened and paved. Bridges were constructed over the river and today furnishes an excellent road to … Read more
Evergreen Christian Church
Evergreen Christian Church is located just off Route 56 near the North Fork of the Tye River. Records do not show when the church was organized, but a minister by the name of Joshua Webb was preaching here in the 1830’s. The first building was built of hewn logs. The present building was built in … Read more
Lesesne State Forest
Lesesne is the fifth largest State Forest in the Commonwealth with 421 acres dedicated to a research facility for American chestnut and a wildlife sanctuary. The Lesesne Forest comprises 421.59 acres of timbered, open, and semi-open forestland, two American and Hybrid chestnut orchards, and small-acreage walnut research plots. There are approximately 34 acres presently devoted … Read more