Milton, Albemarle County, Virginia

{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Virginia, United States}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}}

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|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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Milton is an unincorporated community in Albemarle County, Virginia.

In the batteaux era Milton was the head of navigation along the river, but by the mid-nineteenth century horse-drawn canal boats were traveling all the way upstream to Charlottesville, where the head of navigation was located at the very point where the Fredericksburg Road (now VA 20) and Three Chopt Road (U.S. Route 250).