Editing Buchanan, Virginia (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Mary Johnston]], novelist and women's rights activist
* [[Matthew Ramsey (songwriter)|Matthew Ramsey]], songwriter and lead singer of country-rock music group [[Old Dominion (band)|Old Dominion]]
* [[Hughie Thomasson]], musician and member of [[Outlaws (band)|Outlaws]] and [[Lynyrd Skynyrd]] born in Buchanan
* [[James Patton (Virginia colonist)|James Patton]], first sheriff of Augusta County, owned a "small stone house" around 1750 at [[Virginia State Route 750|Cherry Tree Bottom]], across the [[James River]] from Buchanan.<ref name = "Chalkley3">[https://books.google.com/books?id=wk8PAAAAYAAJ Chalkley, Lyman. ''Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County, 1745–1800,'' vol III The Commonwealth Printing Company, Rosslyn VA, 1912.]</ref>{{rp|41}}
* [[John Buchanan (Virginia colonist)|John Buchanan]], who lived for many years in the Anchor and Hope Plantation just west of the town.<ref>[https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=43350 A 1932 historical marker, located on the west side of US 52, just south of I-81, reads "Anchor and Hope Plantation—One mile north]</ref><ref name="northamericanforts.com"/><ref name="ReferenceA"/>