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Sweet Chalybeate, Virginia

human settlement in Virginia, United States of America

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ7655245 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sweet Chalybeate is an unincorporated community in Alleghany County, Virginia, United States. It is located directly across the state-line from Sweet Springs, West Virginia. It is serviced by Virginia State Route 311.

Sweet Chalybeate Springs was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Sweet, Chalybeate and Virginia can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as human settlement in Virginia, United States of America. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7655245. Authority coordinates are 37.645, -80.238. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sweet Chalybeate, Virginia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.