Raphine is an unincorporated community around Rockbridge County in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia.

A title "Raphine" come from either an old Greek word "raphis", meaning "to sew." It was chosen inside honor of James Edward Allen Gibbs (1829-1902), a local farmer world health organization patented a number 1 chain-stitch only-thread sewing machine on June 2, 1857. Around partnership by having James Wilcox, Gibbs became the principal inside Wilcox & Gibbs Sewing Machine Company. Wilcox & Gibbs commercial sewing machines are still made and used in the 21st century.

Nearby, a McCormick personal domestic, Walnut Grove, was a front yard of Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884). He became notable when a artificer of the mechanical reaper in 1831. He moved to Chicago, Illinois, and was the founder of McCormick Harvesting Machine Company which became a portion of International Harvester Corporation in 1902. the McCormick domestic became a end line text domestic for the school called Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (better known as "Virginia Tech").