Crozet VA area information, including the location, available transportation, educational opportunities and history.
LOCATION - Crozet VA is found in the western part of Albemarle County Virginia at the center of the county's apple and peach industry. Crozet is just north of Route-250 between Waynesboro (13 miles west) and the city Of Charlottesville (15 miles east). Other nearby cities include: Dooms (10.7 miles), Crimora (11.3 miles), Grottoes (16.1 miles), Lyndhurst (17.4 miles), Sherando (18.0 miles), and Fishersville (18.4 miles). Washington DC is 120 miles northeast; Lynchburg is 56 miles south and Philadelphia, PA 278.4 miles northeast. I-64 is just south of Crozet, and Hwy-810 runs north/south through the town, leading to the Greene County line and Route-33. Route-33 runs northwest to Harrisonburg, Hillsboro, and Cincinnati OH, southeast to Richmond.
TRANSPORTATION/AIRPORTS - The Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport is 18 miles west of Crozet VA; the larger Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (CHO) is 18 miles east. CHO has 60 daily non-stop flights to and from Charlotte, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, New York/LaGuardia, Washington/Dulles, Cincinnati, and Atlanta. The Lynchburg Regional Airport is about 63 miles east. Smaller public-use airports in the vicinity include: Eagle's Nest (17 miles away in Waynesboro), Bridgewater Air Park (27 miles), and Gordonsville Municipal Airport (39 miles). Crozet has a local bus service and a taxi service.
BRIEF HISTORY - Crozet VA is the center of Virginia's peach and apple growing region, and the town has long been a center for local farmers to gather and do business. During the depression of the 1930's, Crozet became known for its relative prosperity. Between 1925 and 1935, usually considered a devastating period for agriculture nationwide, farmers in Crozet planted over half a million new fruit trees. The town of Crozet VA became known as the "Peach Capital of Virginia." During peak peach time, a single distributor would ship as much as sixty-two railroad carloads of peaches in a single day. Crozet also led the state in the production of Albemarle Pippins and Winesaps, apples for which Albemarle County Virginia is famous. According to local legend, Queen Victoria would accept no other apple on her table. In 1929 Crozet constructed a new cold storage plant that greatly expanded their production capability. Small farmers from around the county who had fallen on hard times with their own farms would go to Crozet to pick peaches and apples to earn extra money.
POPULATION - Crozet VA current population is 2,820
ABOUT EDUCATION - Crozet VA has two public elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school; the Crossroads Waldorf School provides an alternative for grades PK-8. Students are near to the top-ranking University of Virginia-Main Campus, and the excellent Piedmont Virginia Community College, both in the nearby city Of Charlottesville. Other close-by sources of higher education include the James Madison University in Harrisonburg, The Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Longwood College in Farmville, Liberty University in Lynchburg, and the Lord Fairfax Community College in Middletown.
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT THIS AREA? - Crozet VA is surrounded by rolling farmland and orchards that run to the feet of the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in the west. Residents enjoy an outdoor lifestyle and sense of community offered by their smaller town, while being close enough to the city Of Charlottesville to take advantage of all that the big city has to offer. Prosperous farms and plentiful seasonal work make agricultural work attractive; Crozet's inexpensive real estate also attracts those who choose to commute the 20-minute drive to the city Of Charlottesville.
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