Stuart Community Hospital reopened Jan. 5, 2026 with an emergency room and 25 licensed beds, eight years after the town's hospital closed.
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Harrison Burton won the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona on Aug. 24, 2024, the 100th Cup win for the Stuart-based Wood Brothers.
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Stuart's railroad-era downtown, with its knitting mill, cannery and Art Deco theater, was listed on the National Register on May 27, 2021.
Stuart
Officials broke ground Sept. 29, 2021 at Meadows of Dan on a $300 million project to widen 7.4 miles of U.S. 58 to four lanes.
Meadows of Dan
Glen Wood, who started Wood Brothers Racing with his brother Leonard in Stuart, died on Jan. 18, 2019 at age 93.
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Gerald L. Baliles, Virginia's 65th governor and a Patrick County native, died on Oct. 29, 2019 at age 79.
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The former Spoon Creek Bridge on U.S. 58 in Stuart was dedicated on Nov. 12, 2018 as the Frederick C. Bullington Jr. Memorial Bridge.
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The Stuart hospital that opened in 1962 and later became Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick closed in 2017, after the company operating it filed for bankruptcy in 2016.
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Regional Timeline
Stuart Community Hospital reopened Jan. 5, 2026 with an emergency room and 25 licensed beds, eight years after the town's hospital closed.
Stuart
Harrison Burton won the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona on Aug. 24, 2024, the 100th Cup win for the Stuart-based Wood Brothers.
Stuart
Stuart's railroad-era downtown, with its knitting mill, cannery and Art Deco theater, was listed on the National Register on May 27, 2021.
Stuart
Officials broke ground Sept. 29, 2021 at Meadows of Dan on a $300 million project to widen 7.4 miles of U.S. 58 to four lanes.
Meadows of Dan
Glen Wood, who started Wood Brothers Racing with his brother Leonard in Stuart, died on Jan. 18, 2019 at age 93.
Stuart
Gerald L. Baliles, Virginia's 65th governor and a Patrick County native, died on Oct. 29, 2019 at age 79.
Stuart
The former Spoon Creek Bridge on U.S. 58 in Stuart was dedicated on Nov. 12, 2018 as the Frederick C. Bullington Jr. Memorial Bridge.
Stuart
The Stuart hospital that opened in 1962 and later became Pioneer Community Hospital of Patrick closed in 2017, after the company operating it filed for bankruptcy in 2016.
Stuart
An EF1 tornado touched down on Epperson Lane in Ararat about 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 24, 2016, damaging 21 homes and a church.
Ararat
Floodwaters washed away the 1921 Bob White Covered Bridge near Woolwine on Sept. 29, 2015.
Woolwine
Glen Wood, co-founder of Wood Brothers Racing in Stuart, was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2012.
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Trevor Bayne, 20, won the 2011 Daytona 500 in the Wood Brothers' No. 21 Ford, the Stuart team's fifth win in the race.
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Mayberry Presbyterian Church near Meadows of Dan was listed on the National Register on March 30, 2007, as part of the multiple property listing for the Childress rock-faced churches.
Meadows of Dan
Fairy Stone State Park, built by Civilian Conservation Corps workers in the 1930s, was listed as a historic district on April 10, 2007.
Stuart
A Hendrick Motorsports plane bound for a race at Martinsville crashed into mountainous terrain at Stuart on Oct. 24, 2004, killing all 10 aboard.
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Goblintown Mill, a gristmill built in the 1850s on Little Goblintown Creek, was listed on the National Register on Nov. 26, 2004.
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Stuart's uptown core, centered on the county courthouse, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on Jan. 24, 2002.
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The Laurel Hill site in Ararat where Confederate cavalry commander J.E.B. Stuart was born was listed on the National Register on Sept. 24, 1998.
Ararat
Featured Archive
1971 · The Patrick County Historical Society is organized
1966 · Patrick Central School closes as Patrick County schools integrate
1963 · Tiny Lund wins the Daytona 500 for Stuart's Wood Brothers
1936 · Fairy Stone State Park opens
1884 · First train reaches Taylorsville
1833 · J.E.B. Stuart is born at Laurel Hill
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