Editing Buchanan, Virginia (section)

==History==
Buchanan was incorporated in 1832.<ref name="1855 Gazetteer">{{cite book| last=Edwards| first=Richard| title=Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia| date=1855| publisher=Richard Edwards| location=Richmond, Virginia| page=[https://archive.org/details/statisticalgazet00edwa/page/189 189]| url=https://archive.org/details/statisticalgazet00edwa}}</ref> The town of '''Pattonsburg''' was founded on the opposite side of the [[James River]] (named for [[James Patton (Virginia colonist)|Colonel James Patton]]), and was connected to Buchanan via a bridge.<ref name="1855 Gazetteer"/> An 1855 gazetteer described Buchanan and Pattonsburg together containing "3 or 4 churches, 1 bank, 1 printing office, and several tobacco factories and mills."<ref name="1855 Gazetteer"/> Buchanan was named for Virginia colonist [[John Buchanan (Virginia colonist)|John Buchanan]] (died 1769), a soldier and landowner who built Fort Fauquier on the James River, just south of the town.<ref name="northamericanforts.com">[https://www.northamericanforts.com/East/vasowest.html#bote North American Forts: Southwestern Virginia]</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">Robert Douthat Stoner, ''A Seed-bed of the Republic: a study of the pioneers in the upper (Southern) valley of Virginia,'' Roanoke: Roanoke Historical Society, 1962</ref>

The [[Buchanan Historic District]], [[Buchanan Theatre]], [[Greyledge]], [[Lauderdale (Buchanan, Virginia)|Lauderdale]], [[Looney Mill Creek Site]], and [[Wilson Warehouse]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

[[Image:FootBridgeJamesRiverBuchananVASmaller.jpg|thumb|The swinging bridge across the [[James River]] in Buchanan, Virginia. Constructed in 1938, the piers of the bridge were built in 1851.]]