Wytheville, Virginia: Great Lakes to Florida Highway Museum
H.R. Umberger 1930s filling station, long bypassed and neglected, was restored and reopened in 2011 as a museum of vintage petroliana.
- Address:
- 975 Tazewell St., Wytheville, VA
- Directions:
- Great Lakes to Florida Highway Museum, I-81 Exit 70, near E. Lee Trinkle Regional Visitors Center.
- Phone:
- 276-223-3330
- Admission:
- Free.
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The Great Lakes to Florida Highway Museum is in a restored gas station that is on the grounds of the Wytheville Homestead Museum. Parking and entry to the museum are up the hill at 975 Tazewell Street. There is no place to stop or park at the station itself.
[Bumptious Bangwhistle, 12/22/2023]
Nowhere to pull off the road to stop and see the station. Parking lot was blocked off as well.
[Grilly, 05/25/2013]
An old gas station has been preserved as a museum along old Highway 21, in the 1930s a main conduit between the Great Lakes and Florida. H.R. Umberger's business, the "Lakes to Florida Service Station," thrived through the 1950, until the road was rerouted through Wytheville and bypassed by I-77.
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Classic filling station restored and reopened in 2011 as a museum of vintage petroliana.