Wilderness, Virginia

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Route 20, Locust Grove Ellwood Manor Wilderness is an unincorporated community on the border of Orange and Spotsylvania counties in Virginia, United States. The community is centered at the intersection of Virginia primary 20 and Virginia primary 3.

The name likely comes from the nearby thick forest known as The Wilderness Forest, where a Civil War battle known as the Battle of the Wilderness took place nearby. Locust Grove is the official mailing address for Wilderness.

Pilgrim Baptist Church is a historically Black church in Wilderness, in 1974 Rev. Earl Bledsoe was pastor.

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