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Fontaine: US-220 BUS - SR-641 - SR-970
Built around a rural road junction, Fontaine grew into a small unincorporated community in Virginia’s southern Piedmont. The settlement lies amid low, rolling terrain between Martinsville and the North Carolina border, where wooded tracts and roadside businesses alternate along the main roads. This is a working transport landscape rather than a place centred on a historic downtown: wide carriageways, turning lanes and dispersed development shape its everyday rhythm. Fontaine belongs to the wider Martinsville area, a part of Virginia long associated with furniture manufacturing and NASCAR racing at Martinsville Speedway. Its setting marks the transition from town streets to the open, forested countryside of the Piedmont.
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