Talk:Independence, Virginia

Grand Privy race?
Is the Grand Privy race now held at the Foliage Festival and not on the 4th of July? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.6.17.34 (talk) 21:41, 5 April 2022 (UTC)

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Serious editorial help needed here
This article contains multiple internal inconsistencies.

The original 1908 courthouse was constructed with some brick from an 1863 courthouse previously occupying the site. It was re-used as fill inside the walls. Would it be fair to say the original courthouse was constructed with materials from the original, original courthouse?

Town park is home to the Independence Farmers Market, which opens "weekly from May–October and online year round." The market uses a timber-frame, white oak, pavilion completed in 2021 in collaboration with the Timber Framers Guild. Remaining work includes bathrooms, utilities and sitework — as well as a stage. The stage hosts Farmers Market. Note that the market is hosted by an incomplete stage.

The history of the city is in the National Registry of Historical Places and features a Richardsonian style by noted architect Frank Pierce Milburn following his designs ?[? in ?]? Wise County, VA and Forsyth County, NC, and the Southern Railway Station in Knoxville, TN. Perhaps the city's history consisted almost entirely of architecture.

To make my point, I incorporated a nearly imperceptible amount of poetic license,

From my personal experience, I expect the defense of this article to involve personal attacks.

OK!

I originally came to this article to see when the town was founded. I found the answer stated rather obtusely and not in the history, as follows: In 2021, the town created its first public park in its 115 year history, , , Topeka Sam (talk) 04:54, 27 December 2023 (UTC)