Montvale, Virginia

Locust Level is a historic home and farm located at Montvale, Bedford County, Virginia. It was built about 1824, and is a two-story, brick, central-passage-plan I-house with fine exterior and interior Federal-style detailing. It has a standing seam metal roof. Attached to the rear is a two-story mortise-and-tenon frame wing known variously as the Hall or the Dance Hall. Also on the property are a contributing kitchen and dining room building, a free-standing chimney, a meat house, spring house, family cemetery, and three mounting blocks. The home was built about 1822-1824 by Paschal and Frances Ann Otey Buford, on land that belonged to his father, Henry Buford. Frances Ann Matthews Otey Buford was part of the famous Mathews family. The land was originally granted by George III of the United Kingdom for "service to the crown." The home has ruins of the original home of Henry Buford on the site, as well as the remains of several of the mills operated by Paschal Buford. The famous treasure described in the Beale ciphers is thought to be buried near this home. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Villamont is an unincorporated community in western Bedford County, Virginia, United States. Villamont is located along U.S. Route 460 between Blue Ridge and Montvale. It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Buford's Gap is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Bedford County, Virginia. Buford's Gap was the original crossing of the Blue Ridge Mountains for the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, later the Norfolk and Western Railway, a precursor of today's Norfolk Southern Railway system. It was the site of a battle in 1864 during the American Civil War. U.S. Route 460 also passes through the gap.

Blue Ridge is a census-designated place (CDP) in southern Botetourt County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,185 at the 2020 census. The CDP is located along U.S. Route 460. It is part of the Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Lithia is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States.

Thomas Methodist Episcopal Chapel, also known as Thomas Chapel and Thomas Chapel United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church located at Thaxton, Bedford County, Virginia. It was built in 1844, and is a small, rectangular-plan, one-story, one-room, brick structure in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It measures 30 feet wide and 40 feet long, and has a three-bay facade and a pedimented front gable roof.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

Twin Oaks Farm is a historic home and farm located in Bedford County, Virginia. It was built about 1850, and is a rambling two-story frame and log farmhouse with Gothic Revival style decorative detailing. It features a frame wraparound porch on the south and west elevations. Also on the property are a contributing dingle dwelling (1930s), spring house (1850s), tenant house (1916), Apple Barn (1916), and chicken coop (1920s). The farm supported cannery production from 1909 to 1937.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

Webster is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States.

Blue Ridge Hall is a historic stagecoach hotel at 11593 U.S. Route 11 in central eastern Botetourt County, Virginia. Located on the historic main road down the Shenandoah Valley, it is a two-story wood-frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior, and a 20th-century Colonial Revival porch across the front. It was built about 1836, and is a well-preserved example of a Federal style antebellum house, later used as a tavern and stagecoach stop.The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.

Nace is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States.The small town was originally known as "Houston", but "As for the name Nace, that was in honor of George Washington Fayette Nace, a prominent local farmer born Feb. 1, 1822, and died Aug. 19, 1890."The town had an orchard, truck farms (otherwise known as Market gardens), and a tomato cannery. The cannery was owned by E. C. Firestone, and was known as the Firestone Canning Corporation.

Pico is an unincorporated community in Botetourt County, Virginia, United States.

Thaxton is an unincorporated community in western Bedford County, Virginia, United States. The community is located along U.S. Route 460 between Bedford and Montvale. It is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.