Altavista

Altavista is an integrated town in Campbell County, Virginia, United States. The populace was 3,450 at the 2010 census. It is a part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town of Altavista became created in 1905 at some point of the construction of the east-west Tidewater Railway among Giles County at the border with West Virginia and Sewell's Point in what changed into at the time Norfolk County.

Planned by means of Campbell County native William Nelson Page and financier and industrialist Henry Huttleston Rogers, the Tidewater Railway turned into mixed with the Deepwater Railway in West Virginia to shape the brand new Virginian Railway in 1907. Although it was a common carrier and offered limited passenger provider until 1956, the principle purpose of the Virginian Railway become to haul bituminous coal from the mountains to coal piers on the ice-loose harbor of Hampton Roads.

Lane Brothers Construction Company turned into the contractor for constructing 32 miles of the Tidewater Railway, together with its crossing of the prevailing north-south Southern Railway in Campbell County. Three Lane brothers purchased 2,000 acres of land near the factor wherein the railroads could intersect, and had civil engineers lay out a new metropolis with streets and masses, entire with water, sewer, smartphone carrier, and electric lines. Settlement turned into recommended with the aid of the awarding of free plenty. Named for the Lane family farm in Albemarle County, the brand new city of Altavista became included in 1912.