Virgilina, VA

Virgilina is a town in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 226 residents. Virgilina was once a copper mining town. Virgilina was a stop on the Atlantic and Danville Railway as recently as the 1950s. The short version is that Virgilina carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Virgilina: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Virgilina is named "Virgilina" because it is located on the Virginia and North Carolina border. The town's southern border is the Virginia–North Carolina line. Virginia State Routes 96 and 49 intersect at the center of town.