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Wytheville: I-81 - MM 70.8 - NB
Wytheville has served as a county seat in southwest Virginia since 1839. Lying in the Great Appalachian Valley near Big Walker Mountain, it grew at a crossroads now defined by Interstates 81 and 77, major north–south corridors in the eastern United States. Its compact downtown retains nineteenth-century commercial buildings, and the town’s name honours George Wythe, a Virginia signer of the Declaration of Independence. Wytheville is also the birthplace of Edith Bolling Wilson, who became First Lady of the United States in 1915; her childhood home is preserved as a museum. The ridges and broad transport corridors around the town lend it a firmly Appalachian character.
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Wytheville lies in the Great Appalachian Valley, where the folded ridges of the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians define southwestern Virginia. The town stands at the meeting point of Interstates 77 and 81, a long-established crossroads for travel through the Appalachian interior. Its downtown includes the Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Museum, dedicated to the Wytheville-born First Lady who married President Woodrow Wilson. Nearby Big Walker Mountain rises above the valley, adding a distinct highland backdrop to this regional center. Find related webcams around Wytheville and southwest Virginia to build a fuller picture of this Appalachian region.
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