Jonesboro Overview

Jonesboro located near Christians was a community once located in Swoope Virginia, Augusta County along what now is Scott-Christians Road on Rippetoe Lane. The community was founded in 1878 with an original area of sixty-three acres and was thriving until about the mid 1950s. The community contained a church/school, a tavern, and cemetery. The community is thought to have had seventeen homesites. The community now lays in ruins and is slowly disappearing. ​
​(Area of Jonesboro from the Map Of The Pastures Magisterial District Augusta County,Virginia. By Jed. Hotchkiss, T.E. 1884)
Current Satellite Overview of Jonesboro  
GPS Plotted Overview of the Jonesboro Community
​(SPRING WHERE SOME OF THE COMMUNITY GOT THEIR WATER)
(SURVEY OF JONESBORO 1878)
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