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Alberta is a small town in north-central Brunswick County in Southside Virginia, located along U.S. Route 1 with Interstate 85 passing just south of the original part of town.

Alberta is a railroad-born town: no town existed here until two railroads crossed, with the Seaboard Air Line's line through the site completed in 1900 and the Virginian Railway opening through Alberta in 1907, with through service from the Appalachian coalfields starting in 1909.

By 1914 the railroad estimated Alberta's population at only around 100 people, making it one of Virginia's younger railroad towns.

Alberta had 302 residents at the 2020 census, up slightly from 298 residents in 2010.

For much of the 20th century Alberta marked the junction of two railroad mainlines, although the Seaboard line through town is now abandoned and the town sits along the former CSX Norlina Subdivision.

Alberta is home to the Christanna Campus of Southside Virginia Community College, which opened in 1970 as one of the college's two original campuses.

The town limits of Alberta extend southwest along Route 1 and Interstate 85 to State Route 46 and the Southside Virginia Community College campus.

Two Alberta sites, Hobson's Choice and Rocky Run Methodist Church, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Alberta sits in Brunswick County, the Southside county that proudly claims to be the birthplace of Brunswick stew.