Caylor, Virginia

Last updated

Caylor, Virginia
Unincorporated community
USA Virginia location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Caylor
Usa edcp location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Caylor
Coordinates: 36°37′50″N83°29′40″W / 36.63056°N 83.49444°W / 36.63056; -83.49444
Country United States
State Virginia
County Lee
Elevation
1,365 ft (416 m)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID1494196 [1]

Caylor is an unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia, United States. It had a post office from 1896 to 1904. [2]

The community was to be named after T. A. Taylor, an original owner of the town site, but when the name was erroneously entered as Caylor, that name stuck. [3]

The 12 roomed mansion in the Wilderness Road State Park was to remain named "Karlan" in honor of the previous owners, Karl and Ann Harris. However, locals still refer to the mansion as "Elydale", in honor of Robert McPherson Ely, who named the house "Elydale" when it was built in 1878. Two years after building the house, Robert Ely went swimming and caught typhoid fever, and died in 1880. His widow remarried to Thomas A. Taylor in 1885, and when a railroad stop was placed nearby, a mapping error called this "Caylor, Virginia". [4]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Buckingham County, Virginia</span> County in Virginia, United States

Buckingham County is a rural United States county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and containing the geographic center of the state. Buckingham County is part of the Piedmont region of Virginia, and the county seat is Buckingham.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kentlands, Gaithersburg, Maryland</span> Neighborhood of Gaithersburg in Montgomery, Maryland, United States

Kentlands is a neighborhood of the U.S. city of Gaithersburg, Maryland.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial</span> Historic estate in Virginia operated by the U.S. National Park Service

Arlington House is the historic family residence of Robert E. Lee, commanding general of the Confederate Army during the American Civil War in Arlington County, Virginia. The historic home along with a memorial to Lee are situated in the middle of Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, where they overlook the Potomac River and the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">George Washington Parke Custis</span> Step-grandson of George Washington (1781–1857)

George Washington Parke Custis was an American plantation owner, antiquarian, author, and playwright. His father John Parke Custis was the stepson of George Washington. He and his sister Eleanor grew up at Mount Vernon and in the Washington presidential household.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lee Hall Mansion</span> Historic house in Virginia, United States

Lee Hall or Lee Hall Mansion is a historic brick plantation house that was built during the period from 1848 to 1859. The community of Lee Hall, Virginia is named for it. The house and village are located near the junction of U.S. 60 and VA 238, in Newport News, Virginia.

Keen Mountain is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia located on U.S. Route 460, just south of the community of Oakwood, Virginia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wilderness Road State Park</span> State park in Virginia, USA

Joe Creason Park is a municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. Located in the Poplar Level neighborhood, it is in roughly the central portion of the city. The park adjoins and connects to Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve, and both were originally part of the same property prior to becoming parks.

Yards is an unincorporated community straddling the border between Tazewell County, Virginia and Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Yards is located on the Bluestone River, 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Bluefield, Virginia. Yards had a post office on the Virginia side of the border from 1888 until May 28, 1994. The community was named for its railroad yards.

Newbern is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. From 1839 until the court house burned in 1892, Newbern was the county seat of Pulaski County

Peapatch is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia and McDowell County, West Virginia, United States, straddling the Virginia–West Virginia border.

Jewell Valley is an unincorporated community in southwestern Virginia, located in Buchanan County, Virginia, United States. Jewell Valley is 16.5 miles (26.6 km) east of Grundy.

Ely is an unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia, United States.

Idlewild, also known as the Downman House, was a historic home located at Fredericksburg, Virginia. It was built in 1859; a fire in April 2003 destroyed most of the interior and collapsed the roof. It was a 2+1⁄2-story, Gothic Revival-style brick dwelling with an English basement and an irregular "T" shape with a center passage plan. The house was topped by a steep slate gable roof. Also on the property at present are three contributing brick dependencies and a contributing pet cemetery. During the American Civil War, Idlewild became a prominent landmark on 4 May 1863, during battle action related to the Chancellorsville campaign. On that evening Confederate General Robert E. Lee used the house as his headquarters, after being initially occupied that day by Federal troops of the Union Sixth Corps.

Leemaster is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia, in the United States.

Murphy is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia, in the United States.

Page is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia, in the United States.

Roseann is an unincorporated community in Buchanan County, Virginia, in the United States.

Hagan is an unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia, in the United States.

Seminary is an unincorporated community in Lee County, Virginia, in the United States. The community was previously known as Turkey Cove. During the American Civil War, the 64th Virginia Infantry trained on the community's church grounds, partly because its chaplain was Reuben Steele.

References

  1. ↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Caylor, Virginia
  2. ↑ "U.S. Board on Geographic Names".
  3. ↑ Tennis, Joe (2004). Southwest Virginia Crossroads: An Almanac of Place Names and Places to See. The Overmountain Press. p. 18. ISBN   978-1-57072-256-1.
  4. ↑ Tennis, Joe. Along Virginia's Route 58: True Tales from Beach to Bluegrass. 2015. Pages 238-239.


This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.