Milton, Albemarle County, Virginia
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 Sign on a main road near Milton. | |
  Milton Location within the Commonwealth of Virginia  Milton Milton (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 38°00′19″N 78°24′09″W / 38.00528°N 78.40250°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Albemarle |
| Time zone | UTC−5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC−4 (EDT) |
| GNIS feature ID | 1477543[1] |
Milton is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.[1] In the batteaux era Milton was the head of navigation along the river, but by the mid-nineteenth century horse-drawn canal boats were traveling all the way upstream to Charlottesville, where the head of navigation was located at the very point where the Fredericksburg Road (now VA 20) and Three Chopt Road (U.S. Route 250).
Notable people
[edit]- Lizzie Petit Cutler (1831-1902), writer
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Milton". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved August 12, 2013.
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