Staunton
Staunton is an independent city in the U.S.
Staunton is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,750. In Virginia, independent cities are separate jurisdictions from the counties that surround them, so the government offices of Augusta County are in Verona, which is contiguous to Staunton. Staunton is a principal city of the Staunton-Stuarts Draft Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2020 population of 125,433. Staunton is known for being the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, and as the home of Mary Baldwin University, historically a women's college. The city is also home to Stuart Hall, a private co-ed preparatory school, as well as the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind. It was the first city in the United States with a fully defined city manager system.
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Worth seeing in and around Staunton
7 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum is a complex located in Staunton, Virginia. It contains the President's birthplace, known as the Manse, a museum that explores the life and times of Woodrow Wilson, a 6,800 square feet Research Library, a gift shop, and several other buildings that are not open to the public.
1.1 km · heritage institution · Wikipedia - 02Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia
The Frontier Culture Museum of Virginia is the biggest open-air museum in the Shenandoah Valley. The museum operates on 188 acres of land in Staunton, Virginia, United States, which includes 1.8 miles of paved walking trails.
4.4 km · Living history museum in Staunton, Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 03Mary Baldwin University
Mary Baldwin University is a private university in Staunton, Virginia, United States. It was founded in 1842 as "Augusta Female Seminary".
900 m · private university in Virginia · Wikipedia - 04Folly
Folly is a historic plantation house located near Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia. The one-story, porticoed, brick structure was built about 1818 in the Jeffersonian style, although Jefferson is not known to have designed it.
8 km · historic plantation house located near Staunton, Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 05J. C. M. Merrillat House
J. C. M. Merrillat House, also known as Hunter House, is a historic house located at Staunton, Virginia. It was built in 1851, and is a two-story, five-bay, Gothic Revival style frame cottage with a two-story wing.
1.2 km · historic house in Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 06Stuart House
Stuart House is a historic home located at Staunton, Virginia. The original portion of the house was built in 1791, and is a two-story, temple-form brick structure fronted by a two-level pedimented portico supported by four very simple and provincial Tuscan order-like columns.
1.2 km · NRHP-listed house in Staunton, Virginia, United States · Wikipedia - 07Gypsy Hill Park
Gypsy Hill Park is a recreational park situated in the center of Staunton, Virginia, United States, where Churchville Avenue and Thornrose Avenue intersect. The park contains various public services and attractions, including football and baseball fields, the Thomas D. Howie Memorial National Guard Armory, a large bandstand pavilion, a golf course, a basketball court, a gym, and the central duck pond equipped with food dispensers, allowing visitors to feed the ducks and fish.
900 m · park in Staunton, Virgina, USA · Wikipedia
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Getting to Staunton
- Airports
- Washington Dulles (IAD), 166 km · Richmond (RIC), 171 km · Ronald Reagan Washington National (DCA), 193 km
- Stations
- Staunton station, 1.2 km
- Dulles → Staunton168 km · quickest by road, 3h 27m · $18–25
- Richmond → Staunton156 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $14–19
- Washington → Staunton196 km · quickest by road, 3h 49m · $20–28
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