Wilderness, Virginia

Route 20, Locust Grove

Ellwood Manor

Wilderness is the name of an area near the border of Orange and Spotsylvania counties in Virginia. Although not an official town, it is known as a locality and understood to be at the intersection of Virginia primary 20 and Virginia primary 3.^[1]

The name likely comes from the nearby thick forest known as The Wilderness Forest, where a Civil War battle nearby known as the Battle of the Wilderness occurred. Locust Grove is the official mailing address for Wilderness.

References

Municipalities and communities of Orange County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Orange

Towns	Gordonsville Orange

CDP	Lake of the Woods

Unincorporated communities	Barboursville‡ Bledsoe Corner Burr Hill Lahore Locust Grove Montpelier Station Rhoadesville Scuffletown Somerset Unionville

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Municipalities and communities of Spotsylvania County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Spotsylvania Courthouse

CDPs	Lake Wilderness Spotsylvania Courthouse

Unincorporated communities	Alsop Arcadia Artillery Ridge Bells Crossroad Belmont Blades Corner Brockroad Brokenburg Carters Store Chancellor Chancellorsville Chewnings Corner Cookstown Dunavant Five Mile Fork Four Mile Fork Granite Springs Lanes Corner Leavells Lewiston Margo Marye Massaponax McHenry Old Trap Olivers Corner Partlow Paytes Post Oak Shady Grove Corner Snell Stubbs Thornburg Todds Tavern

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