Renan, Virginia facts for kids

Renan is an unincorporated community in the northeastern part of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States. It is included in the Danville, Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is contained within the Staunton River Magisterial District, and is located on a crossroads between Straightstone, Mount Airy, and Hurt.

The community of Renan was named in the second half of the 19th century after Ernest Renan, French philosopher and theologian. The name of the community is pronounced with stress on the first syllable of the word, however. In the 1880s, the four-room Harmony Grove School served the area, which was then replaced by the brick Renan School. This was then closed and converted into a Virginia furniture factory.

A store served the community from 1901 until the 1980s.

Municipalities and communities of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Chatham

Towns	Chatham Gretna Hurt

CDPs	Blairs Motley Mount Hermon

Unincorporated communities	Ajax Andersons Mill Bachelors Hall Banister Berry Hill Beverly Heights Birnam Wood Brights Brosville Brutus Buford Callahans Hills Callands Cartersville Cascade Cedar Forest Cedar Hill Chalk Level Climax Coles Hill Dry Fork Dundee Ebenezer Eldon Knolls Fairfield Park Farmers Flint Hill Fox Hollow Galveston Gilmer Terrace Glenland Glenwood Grady Green Acres Green Pond Greenfield Grit Halifax Hills Henrys Mill Hermosa Hill Grove Hinesville Hollys Mill Hollywood Hopewell Java Jones Mill Keeling Kentuck Lakewood Laniers Mill Laurel Grove Leaksville Junction Level Run Lucks Lumpkin Forest Markham Motleys Mill Mt. Airy Mount Cross Mountain Hill Museville Natal New Mount Cross Oak Hill Oak Hills Oak Ridge Oakland Olde Hunting Hills Peytonsburg Pickaway Pickerel Pine Ridge Pittsville Pleasant Gap Pleasant Grove Pullens Ray Red Oak Hollow Redeye Renan Riceville Ridgecrest Ridgeway Ringgold Rondo Sandy River Sharon Sheva Shockoe Smothers Soapstone Sonans Spring Garden Stony Mill Straightstone Surry Hills Sutherlin Swansons Mill Swansonville Sycamore Tightsqueeze Toshes Transco Village Turkey Fork Vadens Mill Vance Vandola Weal West Fork Whitfield Whitmell Whittles Whittletown Witt Woodlake Park Woodlawn Woodlawn Heights Worlds Wyndover Woods

Coordinates: 36°58′30″N 79°11′38″W / 36.975°N 79.19389°W / 36.975; -79.19389

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