Naptha, Virginia

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Naptha is an unincorporated community located in Brunswick County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.

It has also been called Crossroads, Va.

The Abernathy family were one of the 5 families that founded Brunswick county.

in the early 1920s Robert Abernathy built a country store at the intersection of Poor House and Liberty roads across from the Crossroads School.

The store closed in the late 1980s. The old school (now a storage barn) was destroyed by fire in the 1990s.

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Abernathy Store

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36°49′45″N77°50′27″W / 36.82917°N 77.84083°W / 36.82917; -77.84083