Eggleston, Virginia

Q. M. Pyne Store, also known as the Palisades Restaurant, is a historic country store located at Eggleston, Giles County, Virginia. It consists of two multi-story, brick masonry structures, attached side by side and embanked into a hillside. The north building was completed in 1926 and appended with a similar building on the south side about 1929. The north building is three stories and measures 70 feet deep and 40 feet wide. It has a flat roof, parapet and sign tablet, with a windowed storefront below. The building housed C.C. Whittaker & Company, a general store; a Chevrolet Dealership, with a showroom and a place to repair cars; a doctor's office; and the United States Post Office until it moved to its new location in the 1980s.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

The People's Bank of Eggleston is a historic bank building at 181 Village Street in the mountain hamlet of Eggleston, Virginia. It is a two-story brick building, stylistically resembling an American Foursquare house. It was built about 1925, the year the bank was founded, and was used by the bank until it failed in 1932, during the Great Depression. It is, along with the Q. M. Pyne Store, the only surviving reminder of commercial activity in the small community.The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

Pembroke ( PIM-bruuk) is a town in Giles County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,128 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Blacksburg–Christiansburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Smithfield is a plantation house outside Blacksburg, Virginia, built from 1772 to 1774 by Col. William Preston to be his residence and the headquarters of his farm. It was the birthplace of two Virginia Governors: James Patton Preston and John B. Floyd. The house remained a family home until 1959 when the home was donated to the APVA.

Dry Branch is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.

Doe Creek Farm is a historic farm property at 412 Doe Creek Farm Road in rural Giles County, Virginia. The farm, over 400 acres (160 ha) in size, is anchored by a Greek Revival farmhouse built in 1883, and includes several surviving 19th-century outbuildings, including a smokehouse and honey house. The property is a mix of woodland, pasture, and apple orchards. The farm was established as an orchard and stock farm in 1883 by Samuel and Mollie Hoge, on a plantation estate that had been in his father's hands (whose estate house has not survived). The farm was purchased from the Hoges in 1978 by William and Rosemary Freeman, and it is still owned and operated by Freeman family descendants. The farm has continuously operated as an apple orchard and stock farm since its establishment. The orchard was converted from a commercial to a U-Pick operation and the 1930s commercial packing house was converted to a wedding venue in 2013. The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.

Jefferson Christian Academy is a private K–12 Baptist school in Ripplemead, Giles County, Virginia. Founded in 1994, the school has an enrollment of about 121 students.

McCoy is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States. McCoy is 10.2 miles (16.4 km) west of Blacksburg. McCoy has a post office with ZIP code 24111. The McCoy post office was established in 1906.McCoy also has Long Shop-McCoy Volunteer Fire Department/Rescue Squad, that serves as a local community center, it is the area's voting location as well as the location for community functions.

Ripplemead is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Virginia, United States. Ripplemead is located along the New River, 2.8 miles (4.5 km) east-northeast of Pearisburg. Ripplemead has a post office with ZIP code 24150.

Giles County is a county located in the U.S. state of Virginia on the West Virginia state line. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,787. Its county seat is Pearisburg.Giles County is included in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Giles County is the location of Mountain Lake, one of only two natural fresh water lakes in Virginia. The lake drains into Little Stony Creek, which passes over a waterfall known as The Cascades before reaching the New River.

Cascades (conservation area) is an area in the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests of western Virginia, United States, that has been recognized by the Wilderness Society as a special place worthy of protection from logging and road construction The area is named after a 60-foot waterfall on Little Stony Creek which flows out of the area into the New River. With easily accessible trails, the area has become a popular destination.The area is part of the Mountain Lake Wilderness Cluster.

Kimballton is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Virginia, United States. Kimballton is located on Stony Creek, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northeast of Pearisburg. Virginia Tech's Kimballton Underground Research Facility (KURF), a low-background physics laboratory, is located in a limestone mine in Kimballton.