Gainesboro, Virginia

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Gainesboro
Unincorporated community
Gainesboro Location within the state of Virginia
Coordinates: 39°16′42″N 78°15′33″W / 39.27833°N 78.25917°W / 39.27833; -78.25917Coordinates: 39°16′42″N 78°15′33″W / 39.27833°N 78.25917°W / 39.27833; -78.25917
Country	United States
State	Virginia
County	Frederick
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS feature ID	1466944^[1]

Gainesboro is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia. Gainesboro is located northwest of Winchester off of the North Frederick Pike (US 522) on Gainesboro Road (VA 684). Gainesboro is the northernmost community in Virginia.

Gainesboro was established in 1798 and originally known as Pugh Town or Pughtown after an early settler, Job Pugh, who surveyed and plotted the original village.

Historic sites

Gainesboro School (1935), 5629 North Frederick Pike
Gainesboro United Methodist Church

External links

Gainesboro Elementary School

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Gainesboro, Virginia

v t e Municipalities and communities of Frederick County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Winchester

Towns	Middletown Stephens City

CDPs	Lake Holiday Shawneeland

Unincorporated communities	Albin Armel Bartonsville Brucetown Burnt Factory Canterburg Cedar Grove Cedar Hill Clear Brook Cross Junction De Haven Gainesboro Gore Gravel Springs Green Spring Grimes Hayfield Indian Hollow Jordan Springs Kernstown Klines Mill Leetown Marlboro McQuire Meadow Mills Mount Pleasant Mount Williams Mountain Falls Mountain Falls Park Nain Opequon Parkins Mills Rest Reynolds Store Ridings Mill Rock Enon Springs Round Hill Shockeysville Siler Star Tannery Stephenson Vaucluse Welltown Whitacre White Hall Wilde Acres

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