The word Botetourt easily rolls off your tongue doesn’t it. Not for me! The local citizens of that county have no trouble with it though….they just pronounce it like “Bod – a – Tot”.  When I visited the area in 2000, I was amazed that they were able to twist the spelling to make it sound like that.

Botetourt County, VA is one of the oldest counties in the state and it was named in honor of Lord Botetourt, the governor of VA when the county was formed in 1770. The land consists of beautiful rolling foothills situated in the Shenandoah Valley between the Blue Ridge Mountain and the Appalachian Mountains. This is also where the James River originates before it travels to Richmond, VA and eventually to the lower Chesapeake Bay.