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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S05_the-american-thoroughbred-in-brunswick_Brodnax-VA.html
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed synonymous with racing. All modem Thoroughbreds trace back to three stallions imported into England from the Middle East in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. English Thoroughbreds were imported into North Am…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S02_tobacco-as-a-way-of-life_Brodnax-VA.html
Tobacco has long held a sacred and prominent role among the Indian tribes in the southeast. Well before Christopher Columbus returned with tobacco seeds from the Caribbean or Sir Walter Raleigh made smoking fashionable in Europe when he returned f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S01_bridges-of-brunswick-county_Brodnax-VA.html
While wooden trestle bridges were numerous in Brunswick County, the Meherrin River Bridge was one of a few truss bridges on the A&D between Pinners Point (at Portsmouth) and Danville. Built in 1893, the 150-feet long, through truss pin-connected s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1S00_you-are-traveling-through-the-scenic-meherrin-river-watershed_Brodnax-VA.html
Did you know... A raindrop falling in the Meherrin River Watershed will travel over 200 miles before reaching the Atlantic?!
Watersheds are the collective web of tributaries and surrounding land draining to a common waterbody, such as a major r…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZU_broadnax_Brodnax-VA.html
A community of mills, warehouses, homes and stores sprang up with the construction of the Atlantic and Danville Railway in the 1890s. A combination freight and passenger station was located at Brodnax shown here in 1948. Bales of cotton, timber an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RZP_rolling-post-office_Brodnax-VA.html
Until about 1967, the U.S. Postal Service used the railroads to handle mail on designated routes. The mail was handled in special railroad cars usually moved on passenger trains, designated as Railway Post Office (RPO) cars. The RPOs were actually…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKN7_mecklenburg-county-brunswick-county_Brodnax-VA.html
(Obverse)Mecklenburg CountyFormed in 1764 from Lunenburg, and named for Princess Charlotte, of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III. A small army under the command of rebel Nathaniel Bacon destroyed the town of the Occaneechee Indians near Cl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKN5_hospital-and-school-of-the-good-shepherd_Brodnax-VA.html
Though many freed African Americans continued after the Civil War to work the same farms on which they had been slaves, many also left their homes in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Often the sick, elderly and very young were left behind…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDAY_the-colonial-dames-of-america-monument_Brodnax-VA.html
In 1924 the National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia acquired three and three-quarters acres of land on which the fort was presumed to have been built, then erected a monument of concrete embedded with arro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDAW_governor-alexander-spotswood_Brodnax-VA.html
Alexander Spotswood (1676-1740) was Governor of Virginia from 1710 to 1722. Born in Africa of a Scottish family, he had distinguished himself at the Battle of Bleinheim and was wounded. He was appointed to the governor's position in Virginia in 17…