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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HML31_huguenot-settlement_Midlothian-VA.html
In 1700-1701, Huguenots (French Protestant refugees) settled in this region on land provided to them by the Virginia colony. The Huguenot settlement, known as "Manakin Town" centered at the former site of a Monacan Indian town, located south of th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJ88_clover-hill-mining-district_Midlothian-VA.html
Coal mines, including Brighthope, Raccoon, Cox, Hill, Vaden, and others, were located a mile west of here. As early as 1822 coal was sold for local use. By 1845 the Clover Hill Railroad was constructed to transport the coal to the Appomattox River…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDY3_the-huguenot-monument_Midlothian-VA.html
(left panel) Upon this tract of land, the Glebe Farm, and near this site was located the first church of the French Protestant refugees. The present and fourth church erected 1895, and dedicated April 13,1896 (center panel) This memorial erecte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDY2_mowhemcho-manakin-town_Midlothian-VA.html
Near here stood the Monacan Indian town of Mowhemcho, noted on John Smith's map of 1612. The Monacan homeland encompassed much of Virginia's Piedmont. In 1670, Indian townspeople welcomed explorer John Lederer's party with celebratory "volleys of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDY1_huguenot-settlement_Midlothian-VA.html
Huguenots, the largest single group of French Protestant refugees to come to Virginia, settled near here on the site of a deserted Monacan Indian village during the period 1700-1701. In 1700, the Virginia General Assembly established King William …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCIR_bethel-baptist-church_Midlothian-VA.html
In 1799 the local Baptist Society acquired this land and soon built a meetinghouse. The Bethel congregation worshiped in the meetinghouse and was constituted as a church in 1817. About 1820 the members built a brick church here—the first in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCIL_union-raid-on-coalfield-station_Midlothian-VA.html
On the first day of Union Brig. Gen. August V. Kautz's second raid (12-17 May 1864) on Confederate railroads around Richmond, 3,000 cavalrymen rode northwest from Bermuda Hundred and passed Chesterfield Court House at 1:00 P.M. Arriving about midn…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCIK_midlothian-coal-mines_Midlothian-VA.html
South of here are the Midlothian Coal Mines, probably the oldest coal mines in America. Coal was first mined here before 1730, and during the Revolution, coal from these mines supplied the cannon foundry at Westham. The first railroad in Virginia …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCIJ_black-heath_Midlothian-VA.html
Half a mile north stood Black Heath, later owned by Captain John Heth, officer in Continental Army, whose son, Henry Heth, Major-General C.S.A., was born here in 1825. Coal of high quality was mined here.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCII_salisbury_Midlothian-VA.html
Nearby stood Salisbury, built during the middle portion of the 18th century. It was a one-and-a-half-story frame house that had two asymmetrical brick chimneys. Patrick Henry leased Salisbury from Thomas Mann Randolph and lived there while he was …
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