Tyro, Virginia

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Virginia, US}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} thumb|Aerial view of the Tyro area after the passage of Hurricane Camille thumb|Mountain View Tea Room in Tyro '''Tyro''' is an unincorporated community in Nelson County, Virginia, United States. It was among the communities severely affected by flash flooding from Hurricane Camille in 1969.<ref name="CamilleErosion1">Garnett P. Williams and Harold P. Guy. '''Erosional and Depositional Aspects of Hurricane Camille in Virginia, 1969.''' United States Government Printing Office, 1973, pp. 1.</ref>

It was named from the English word tyro, which also means "beginner" or "novice".<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tyro | title=tyro | publisher=Merriam-Webster | accessdate=16 June 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ho23eS5qjNgC&pg=PA649 | title=Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia | publisher=Minnesota Historical Society Press | author=Upham, Warren | year=2001 | pages=649}}</ref>

Pharsalia and the Tyro Mill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>

==References== *[https://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1496340 GNIS reference] {{reflist}} {{Nelson County, Virginia}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Nelson County, Virginia Category:Unincorporated communities in Virginia