Peaks
Peaks is a hamlet in Hanover, Virginia. Peaks is situated nearby to the hamlet Crosses Corner, as well as near the neighborhood Hanover Hills.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Slash Church and Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center.
Slash Church
Church
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Slash Church, also known as the Upper Church-St. Paul's Parish is a historic Disciples of Christ Church, formerly an Anglican/Episcopal church located at 11353 Mt.
Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center
School
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The Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center, also known as the Barrett Learning Center and originally as the Virginia Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls and then the Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls, was a residential industrial school and later a juvenile correctional facility operated by the state of Virginia near Mechanicsville, Virginia. Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center is situated 2 miles southeast of Peaks.
Hanover High School
School
Hanover High School is a high school located in the Mechanicsville census-designated place of unincorporated Hanover County, Virginia, United States. Kristina Reece is the current principal. It is an International Baccalaureate sponsored school. Hanover High School is situated 2½ miles south of Peaks.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hanover and Atlee.
Hanover
Photo: Mojo Hand, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hanover is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. It is the county seat and is located at the junction of U.S. Route 301 and State Route 54, south of the Pamunkey River.
Atlee
Village
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Atlee or Atlee Station is an unincorporated community in central Hanover County in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, United States. Atlee is located 11 miles north of Richmond on Route 637 approximately.6 miles north-northwest of the intersection of Route 637 and Virginia State Route 2 and approximately 50 miles south of Fredericksburg. Atlee is situated 5 miles south of Peaks.
Ashland
Ashland is a town in Hanover County, Virginia, United States, located 16 miles north of Richmond along Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 1. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 7,565, up from 7,225 at the 2010 census.
Peaks
- Type: Hamlet
- Also known as: “Peake”, “Peake Turnout”, “Peakes Turnout”, and “Peaks Turnout”
- Category: locality
- Location: Hanover, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.7232° or 37° 43′ 24″ northLongitude
-77.38887° or 77° 23′ 20″ westElevation
197 feet (60 metres)Open location code
8794PJF6+7FOpenStreetMap ID
node 158505715OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4778288
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