Ashland, Virginia, the self-styled Center of the Universe, is a Hanover County college town about 15 miles north of Richmond where CSX and Amtrak trains roll straight down the middle of downtown. Randolph-Macon College faces the shops across the tracks, the Strawberry Faire fills the campus each June, and the paved Fall Line Trail begins at Carter Park. Come for the trains. Stay because they keep coming.
